Wednesday, September 09, 2015

Incase you need a little Sun...


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  1. Howard's first this hot rainy September day.

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    1. Send your rain up to us, Puddle, we could do with some.

      In the waiting room at PT they keep the TV tuned to NECN (New England Cable News). While waiting, I was idly listening to the weather person when she said something about trying to break the record and needing to get up to such and such a temperature. Only a meteorologist would talk such crazy talk! Probably everybody hereabouts would welcome a snowflake or two right about now.

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  2. There's good news and bad news about my latest quiz, Promises, Promises, dealing with the 1968 Dionne Warwick album of that name. The good news is it's online. The bad news is it does not, as expected, fulfill my currect stage in Adventures in Authoring. The stage requires you to write a quiz in the Music category on a band or musician about whom there are few or no quizzes already. To qualify, the quiz needs to be filed under a letter, if you see what I mean, like a quiz on Glass Hammer going in G. So, when I set up my quiz template for Promises, Promises, I placed the quiz in Music>W. The system picked it up and gave the conventional message stating that the quiz appears to meet requirements but needs to be completed and placed online. All fine and dandy.

    So, this morning after getting the notification that Promises, Promises had been accepted and placed online, I went to Adventures in Authoring, eager to discover what my new task might be...only to find the same old message that I had not yet completed the task.

    After rereading the message in puzzlement about half a dozen times and repeating aloud, "But, it was here! The quiz was here!" it finally occurred to me to check the quiz itself. Sure enough, it was listed as being in Warwick, Dionne. Ordinarily, I'd be pleased that my contribution boosted her to the status of needing her own subcategory, but in this case, not so much.

    Of course, all this means is that I'll now have to create the quiz on Glass Hammer (currently with no quizzes) I'd originally projected. It's just that the Dionne one was easier. That's what I get for trying to take the easy way out, as well as for not letting my editor know what I was up to. Always before I've included a note in the space provided saying this quiz is to fulfill stage umpty-ump in Adventures in Authoring. That never so much as occurred to me this time. And the editors can't be expected to read quiz creators' minds. So, I have no one to blame but myself. And I have a quiz to write that I had thought could be postponed indefinitely. *sigh* That's life, I guess.

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  3. Also had a mixed bag concerning books. I'm shy perhaps half a dozen Dick Francis and it seems they are not all available for download at BARD. So thinking some might be on cassette and digital cartridge that haven't yet been prepared for download, I went to the Perkins online catalog (Perkins being my cooperating regional library), or tried to. They have a fancy schmancy new web site that looks like they paid some hotshot whizkid a bundle to design, and Window-eyes won't read it. I'll try on the other computer, but I don't have much hope.

    With an awkward workaround I was able to access the search results and did find one of the books I was looking for in either large print or braille. Large print is almost never large enough, and reading is terribly difficult, so that's out. I toyed with trying the braille, but that is also very difficult, so I reluctantly dismissed that idea as well.

    Then I got the bright idea of trying Audible. They have some though not all of the ones I'm missing. While there, I checked out the Harry Dresden series and found one new novel and the Georgiana Rannoch series and found two new novels and one new novella. So I got those as well as the Dick Francis. There are still at least two of his I can't get hold of in accessible format. I may be forced - perish the thought! - to get them in print and run them on my reading machine. I do not like my reading machine. It is much less easy and convenient to use than my Xerox/Kerzweil machine and the voices, for all that there are many more of them, are not as good. But, that's progress for you.

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    1. P.S. the latest Georgiana Rannoch is called - I kid you not! - Malice at the Palace. I can't wait! :D

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