Well, howdy there internet people, and those who haven't broken NYS Penal (PEN) CHAPTER 40, PART 3, TITLE K, Article 175.
It's Troy again.
I forgot to take an overnight Alieve and woke up at 2a for the pee run. Then the disk in the back started with a dull ache. Add in that the house is currently 71°f, with 50+% humidity (in Indiana!) and we still have winter levels of blankets on the bed. And the cat wanted to snuggle and share his little fuzzy furnace of heat.
so I got up and took two Alieve, made a cuppa (green & ginger tea). I might try a nap in the recliner to get another hour or so of sleep.
As for that citizen from NYC... Let me put on my journalism hat: Avoid the News shows on the Telly. They're NOT news. They're the talking points from the ends of the spectrum.
My go-to in a time like this is law professors. Two I like are Joyce Vance, and Jill Wine-Banks. Vance is a law professor, and Wine-Banks is notable for being the only female federal prosecutor on the team investigating the Watergate scandal.
In other news, if you have a Kobo reader (for those in the US, it's like what the Longest River Store does, but in the Commonwealth countries & much of Europe)... Kobo has a program called Kobo-Plus. It's a subscription reading service. Pay a monthly fee, check out and read e-books. the authors get paid based on how much time you spend reading the book.
Well... they just expanded that program into the US AND THE UK. And, here in the States, you can pick up a Kobo reader at WalMart. Or get the app for your various tablets. $7.99US for a month's worth of reading is a great deal.
Seeing that announcement yesterday, I bit the bullet a week earlier than I had planned to and asked The Longest River Store to release all of my books from their rental program.
One big difference between the two is the US-based The Longest River Store requires my ebooks (not paperbacks) be exclusive to them. Not in libraries, not in other online e-reader programs. Kobo doesn't require exclusivity. They're a smaller fish in the e-reader ocean, but they're trying to grow. I like companies with Let's grow together attitudes.
Four of my 16 books will be dropping out of the exclusivity program this month, and another eight next month. But not in chronological order. It's all hodge-podge, or in military terms, a Cluster-fornication of an order. Books 5-6 in one series, followed by book 2 in the other series, then book 1 in the first series. Someone just starting either series in May wouldn't be able to read them in any semblance of order.
So, now I wait. I'm asking for the author-service reps at The River to end the agreement out of schedule. They can say NO, and make me wait on the actual end dates for each book. And putting them up on other stores, not in order would be just as silly as leaving them in the exclusive program like that.
I'll be watching my email all day... waiting...