I'm tired, and I really should get some sleep if I'm going to get up in time to get some work done tomorrow. I did wake up around nine this morning, which should earn me a medal, but apparently the Committee to Recognize AM Awakenings is out on holiday. Lazy bastards. Anyway, I got up, took care of some tings, took a shower, and took care of some more tings (and these tings are extremely annoying promo tings that I don't have time for, but it's my own damn fault since I haven't done anything for three weeks). I also ate a quick lunch of leftover bratwurst and potato salad (yum) and said goodbye to the 'rents before climbing into my father's truck and driving up to Des Moines to see Aunt B.
Becky's scandalous husband, Uncle B, was busy working on his house (note I said 'his house'; they still have both their houses, because they're just that scandalous), so Aunt B and I went out without him. We had sushi someplace out near Jordan Creek, which was surprisingly v. tasty, and then followed it up with some errand running and general hanging out. I avoided nearly all temptation, but I did buy an awesome green jacket (for the rain, not the Masters) that was almost 65% off, so that was a score.
I could have stayed for supper and had Mexican food, but I'd told my parents earlier in the day that I would be home for supper, so I left Des Moines around five p.m. (with a stop at Starbucks to get my espresso fix) and got home in time to eat steak with the fam. After supper, my dad and I sat out on the back porch, and he fed little pieces of raw bacon to the feral cats in an attempt to get them to let him pet them. One is getting slightly more willing to be touched while eating the bacon, but as soon as the bacon is in its mouth, it flees. The other was having no part of the touching, but did adore the bacon, so perhaps he'll have some luck if he spends all his convalescent time trying to tame them (I'm not placing any wagers on that, though).
I procrastinated a bit and caught up on general web stuff, but then I spent the past three hours working on stuff -- more of the tings that I was bitching about this morning, followed by overhauling the product descriptions of my books on Amazon. I thought my agent had to do it, but as I was playing around, I figured out a way to do it myself, which was awesome since I'm a control freak with better knowledge of HTML than her, so I was able to do it without having to explain what I wanted. I have no idea whether this will help sales, but since the previous description was just a mass of text and the new descriptions do a better job of parsing out reviews from the book blurb, perhaps it will encourage a few people to pick it up who might otherwise have glazed over the description and moved on to something else.
But now that I've spent hours staring at my screen, I need a break and a bit of sleep before tomorrow's promo/writing activities. Goodnight!
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