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I got my latest quarterly accounting statement from my publisher today. Beyond all my expectations, my book is still selling nearly three years after release, and accrued royalties just exceeded my advance. That means I may get a royalty next quarter. I don't know who's buying, but thank you!
Good luck to everyone who makes a resolution this year; I hope you achieve your goal.
I am still not smoking, and it's been 17 days now, with no artificial nicotine aids. I'm pretty pumped up about it, especially as it seems to be getting easier now. I only think about lighting up about once or twice a day, which is damn remarkable to me.
I hope everyone has a safe New Year's holiday, and please remember to leave the keys at home if you're drinking - almost every community has free transportation just for the occasion, so no excuses!
My daughter comes home from Tennessee on Monday, so I'm excited about having our Christmas, finally (and to be able to take down the tree!).
Health and happiness to all...
Linda
Ah well. Whatever.
However there is some whining to the effect that Microsoft is bribing bloggers with laptops. I find that notion silly because the gift are with no strings, and there is no requirement to even do a review.
So Dean and others, what would you do if you received an Acer Ferrari Laptop with no strings? (Value $2200-$2300)
Dean, I think all the far left bloggers live in Madison, Wisconsin. Fortunately, a lot of them head out for other parts in mid-winter, because it can get real frozen around here. (Not this year, of course. But one thing about weather you can count on is that it will fluctuate.)
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
It was 53 and sunny today, so I put the top down and did some back road driving. It was awesome!
My lips got so chapped that they are now cracked and bleeding, but I’m still smiling!
My last book never came close to selling out to its advance. But thank G-d it was a decent advance!
A month ago I would have told you I was a happily married woman that survived some really rough bumps in the road and things have never been better.
Two weeks ago my husband told me he was "unhappy".
Tonight I've been "dumped". He told the kids we were separating.
WTF?
I will also refrain from posting about a certain sex act engaged in by my wife and I today, on the chance that you might favor the George H. W. Bush pronunciation of “Saddam.”
All I can offer at this point is my best wishes. Please hang in there!
I know it’s tough. I’ve been there. When my first wife told me she was leaving me for a chance at “another direction”, I was devastated. I think now that on a certain level, I knew it was going to happen. But I was not prepared at all.
And I suffered, BIG TIME, for a year or two afterward. I don’t think that can be avoided. And it’s a terrible thing to go through.
But I eventually came to realize that it was all for the better. I look back on it now as a positive turning point in my life. All I can recommend is that you try to stay positive, no matter how bad things might seem today.
To be blunt, I'd suspect he's been having an affair were I you, and has been pressured to leave by his paramour. It would be my first thought anyway. You don't just dump a long-term relationship on such flimsy grounds otherwise.
one of my (male) co-workers got a divorce for Christmas, much to his surprise.
I don't know why anyone would involve themselves with someone who is married. There's no reason to believe the person wouldn't do it again, no basis for an expectation of future faithfulness.
It's not men, it's humans.
My first wife did that to me 9 years ago, and told the kids, too, and the reasons were flimsy (turned out to be another man). I found my true love several months later, and I (and my kids) have never been happier.
Hang in there. There's always hope.
I hate his guts at the moment and I still don't want a divorce.
I am so sorry to hear that. That's disgusting. He's not a man, he's a selfish worm. A man stands by his commitments for better or for worse, and doesn't use "unhappy" as an excuse to break them. I doubt there's a long-term married person alive who hasn't had a bout of unhappiness here or there. The whole point of a commitment is to stick together through the worse as well as the better, because the marriage is more important than the mood of the moment.
I'm not opposed to divorce, if there are real grounds: abuse, adultery, etc. Unhappiness doesn't count. I would say at this point that you're better off without him, but that's still awful for your kids.
He's a worm.
If it's still selling well three years after release, that'a very good, and possibly indicative of it being used as a textbook.
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.