On the previous thread listener asks how long I've been working on The Whip of Abadur. I actually started it back in the mid-1980s when I first got a word processor at work. I went in for a few hours each Saturday to work on the novel. After that job went away and I got my own computer for freelance work I continued working on it off and on until some time in the '90s. I stopped putting in time on it then, but was always clear in my head that work was suspended rather than abandoned.
I got back to it when my medical writing career fully and finally ended two years ago. As things stand, everything for which I had any sort of draft is now in final, publishable form and I am starting work on what will be the next-to-last chapter. Depending on how long those two final chapters turn out to be the novel will probably run around 75,000 words. Rather short by today's standards, although close to the 80,000 that was the standard novel of commerce when I started the book.
Meanwhile I have acquired a cover (don't see any way to post it here) and am investigating both small-press publishers and self-publishing options along with promotional ideas. For me it's unfortunate that so many promotional suggestions focus on building a career rather than selling a specific book.
Been watching the Senate trial. Neguse of Colorado is most impressive. The logic is really irrefutable, but rex pusblicans are not logical. They are directed by a lust for power.
The talking heads’ estimate that Trump has 45 definite votes for acquittal may well be an exaggeration. USA Today says only 35 have said so. [Click] McConnell has given indications that he is open to conviction; a cynical person might suggest (indeed, has suggested) that he is consumed by one thing only: becoming majority leader again two years from now. If he figures voting to convict Trump will help GOP candidates win in close states, he will do so in a New York minute, and bring others along with him.
If they boot him out, what are his options? Pretty limited I'd guess. Not that I'd mind seeing him on the street, only he'd give the homeless a bad name.
Emirates Mars Mission: Hope spacecraft enters orbit [Click] On Wednesday, it will be the turn of China with its Tianwen-1 orbiter. Like Hope, it must complete a braking manoeuvre to be captured by the planet's gravity. Tianwen-1 is carrying a rover that will be despatched to the surface, most likely in May.
Next week, on Thursday 18 February, the Americans will arrive at Mars with another of their big rovers. The Perseverance robot is being aimed at a crater that once held a giant lake. It will look for signs of fossilised life.
Six GOP senators voted with Democrats, establishing that the impeachment trial is constitutional despite calls from some Republicans to dismiss proceedings.
The six senators are:
Bill Cassidy Susan Collins Lisa Murkowski Mitt Romney Ben Sasse Pat Toomey
Got up early to cancel my docs appointment on Thursday. Five to eight inches expected Weds night into Thurs morning. Too tiring to do the cleanup and then have to get up early and cancel that day, lol!
Dad has his appointment for his first Covid vaccine shot at 10:30 tomorrow morning. It has been snowing all day - we got about eight inches. So he's anxious for the snow removal guy to come this evening so he doesn't have trouble getting out in the morning and maybe miss his appointment.
Wow. I was only able to watch part of the proceedings today, but I taped it and we're watching the rest of it now. So deeply proud of the presentation by the Dems...! But DT's lawyers...what a mess! What on earth is the point Castor was trying to make? He's been rambling and chuntering on for a half hour, and lecturing the Senators on what it means to be a Senator...? Huh? Can't help laughing at how inane and useless and stupid this is.
============================= Senate Says Trump’s Trial Is Constitutional February 9, 2021 By Taegan Goddard
A divided Senate voted 56 to 44 to proceed with the impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump, rejecting his lawyers’ argument that it is unconstitutional, the Washington Post reports. The following Republican senators voted with every Democrat: Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse and Pat Toomey. Cassidy had previously voted “no” when this question was put to the Senate two weeks ago. ===============================
Belly laughing at the eejit Castor who keeps reminding the Senate that when the people don't like the President they will change that "like they just did." ROFL!! Yup! We're good like that. 😆
Sheesh! He is shouting that it's the House Managers that are acting from "base hatred" when *he's* the only person all day who has been speaking in anger. He's trying to make the point that the real problem is the Democrats. Yeah, sure. It was clearly liberal Democrats who stormed the Capitol and put the Presidency at risk, rather than the extreme Republicans who stormed the Capitol and put Congress at risk...as well as Democracy. Gimme a break.
At least the Senate voted that the trial is Constitutional. May the rest of the trial go just like this.
Man, he actually shows Dems saying they think they support impeachment. And all of the quotes are from before the first Impeachment. But he skips over that Impeachment and uses the quotes to suggest the Dems just wanted to Impeach DT no matter what. But they already had! Then he tries to say that the real problem is that the House acted quickly to impeach in January [mind you, the most bipartisan vote ever] suggesting they didn't use due process and acted hastily. But...THEY WERE WITNESSES!! IT WAS DONE TO THEM!! If you don't want to be impeached, don't try to kill the people who can impeach you! Ha!
Ha ha haaaahahaa! He's complaining that there ought to be witnesses! In the first Impeachment the R's wouldn't permit it. In THIS Impeachment every person in the room was a witness. I know they've only had a week to prepare. But come on...!
Anybody else notice that every time Atty Schoen takes a sip of water with one hand, he covers the top of his head with the other hand? Wil says he's covering his blow hole. But I won't so malign whales.
Ah. I looked it up. Schoen is an Orthodox Jew. He is expected to cover his head when he drinks because he is to ask a blessing before eating or drinking, and he is expected to cover his head whenever he says the name of God. He would normally be wearing a kippah (yarmulke) but chose not to on the Senate floor.
Notes on the last thread.
ReplyDeleteA couple of replies on the previous thread.
DeleteOn the previous thread listener asks how long I've been working on The Whip of Abadur. I actually started it back in the mid-1980s when I first got a word processor at work. I went in for a few hours each Saturday to work on the novel. After that job went away and I got my own computer for freelance work I continued working on it off and on until some time in the '90s. I stopped putting in time on it then, but was always clear in my head that work was suspended rather than abandoned.
ReplyDeleteI got back to it when my medical writing career fully and finally ended two years ago. As things stand, everything for which I had any sort of draft is now in final, publishable form and I am starting work on what will be the next-to-last chapter. Depending on how long those two final chapters turn out to be the novel will probably run around 75,000 words. Rather short by today's standards, although close to the 80,000 that was the standard novel of commerce when I started the book.
Meanwhile I have acquired a cover (don't see any way to post it here) and am investigating both small-press publishers and self-publishing options along with promotional ideas. For me it's unfortunate that so many promotional suggestions focus on building a career rather than selling a specific book.
Bravo!
DeleteYwa, Bill, promotion has come to dominate production. It is consistent with the intent being more important than the act.
DeleteLooking forward to those last two chapters. I remember being quite annoyed that the manuscript I'd been reading quite happily suddenly just stopped.
DeleteBill, if you sent a photo of your book cover to me or Catreona, one of us can set it as the photo for a day. 👍
DeleteBeen watching the Senate trial. Neguse of Colorado is most impressive. The logic is really irrefutable, but rex pusblicans are not logical. They are directed by a lust for power.
ReplyDeleteI'm probably behind the curve, but here are a couple of items:
ReplyDeleteCNBC: Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial will present new evidence, and will show that he spent weeks laying the groundwork for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and that he also “incited it further” once the violence began, senior aides said Tuesday. [Click] Stay tuned to learn what the new evidence is.
WaPo: Trump’s lawyers say he was immediately ‘horrified’ by the Capitol attack. Here’s what his allies and aides said really happened that day. [Click]
The talking heads’ estimate that Trump has 45 definite votes for acquittal may well be an exaggeration. USA Today says only 35 have said so. [Click] McConnell has given indications that he is open to conviction; a cynical person might suggest (indeed, has suggested) that he is consumed by one thing only: becoming majority leader again two years from now. If he figures voting to convict Trump will help GOP candidates win in close states, he will do so in a New York minute, and bring others along with him.
ReplyDeletePBS: Trump’s historic 2nd trial opens with jarring video of Capitol siege [Click]
Biden Will Invite Trump to White House for Portrait Unveiling [Click]
ReplyDeleteHow Biden United a Fractious Party [Click] Featuring Bernie as “the liberal luminary.”
Palm Beach council to decide whether Trump can live at Mar-a-Lago [Click]
ReplyDeleteIf they boot him out, what are his options? Pretty limited I'd guess. Not that I'd mind seeing him on the street, only he'd give the homeless a bad name.
DeleteHe owns other properties in the area.
DeleteEmirates Mars Mission: Hope spacecraft enters orbit [Click]
ReplyDeleteOn Wednesday, it will be the turn of China with its Tianwen-1 orbiter. Like Hope, it must complete a braking manoeuvre to be captured by the planet's gravity.
Tianwen-1 is carrying a rover that will be despatched to the surface, most likely in May.
Next week, on Thursday 18 February, the Americans will arrive at Mars with another of their big rovers. The Perseverance robot is being aimed at a crater that once held a giant lake. It will look for signs of fossilised life.
OHIO; COVID cases 925,350 and 11,793 deaths.
ReplyDeleteTexas court hearing briefly interrupted by lawyer using cat filter [Click] Gee— being out of touch as I am, I didn’t know such a thing was a feature of the system!
ReplyDeleteCNN:
ReplyDeleteSix GOP senators voted with Democrats, establishing that the impeachment trial is constitutional despite calls from some Republicans to dismiss proceedings.
The six senators are:
Bill Cassidy
Susan Collins
Lisa Murkowski
Mitt Romney
Ben Sasse
Pat Toomey
The question passed 56-44.
Cassidy's was a new vote.
VT cases: 13,105-13,046 = 59 (!)
ReplyDelete3053 active cases
186 deaths(+3)
Recovered 9866 (75.3%)
Hospital:53(-3) ICU:13(-4)
Tests 313,166 (+896)
Got up early to cancel my docs appointment on Thursday. Five to eight inches expected Weds night into Thurs morning. Too tiring to do the cleanup and then have to get up early and cancel that day, lol!
ReplyDeleteDad has his appointment for his first Covid vaccine shot at 10:30 tomorrow morning. It has been snowing all day - we got about eight inches. So he's anxious for the snow removal guy to come this evening so he doesn't have trouble getting out in the morning and maybe miss his appointment.
ReplyDeleteAs poorly as she's doing, Mom watched this afternoon's Senate proceedings with great attention and interest.
ReplyDeleteWow. I was only able to watch part of the proceedings today, but I taped it and we're watching the rest of it now. So deeply proud of the presentation by the Dems...! But DT's lawyers...what a mess! What on earth is the point Castor was trying to make? He's been rambling and chuntering on for a half hour, and lecturing the Senators on what it means to be a Senator...? Huh? Can't help laughing at how inane and useless and stupid this is.
ReplyDeleteWow, and he thinks free speech means no consequences.
DeletePardon the redundancies below, listener.
DeleteGosh, these guys aren't the B Team...they're F Troop...!
DeleteI don't recall if they got paid in advance or not.
DeleteIf not, they won't be getting a cent! LOL!
DeleteInside the Senate chamber: Sketches from Day 1 of the impeachment trial [Click]
ReplyDelete=============================
Senate Says Trump’s Trial Is Constitutional
February 9, 2021 By Taegan Goddard
A divided Senate voted 56 to 44 to proceed with the impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump, rejecting his lawyers’ argument that it is unconstitutional, the Washington Post reports. The following Republican senators voted with every Democrat: Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse and Pat Toomey.
Cassidy had previously voted “no” when this question was put to the Senate two weeks ago.
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NYT: Trump ‘Frustrated and Irate’ Over First Day of Impeachment Trial [Click]
Trump ‘Displeased’ with His Impeachment Lawyers [Click]
GOP senators baffled by Trump's legal team after first day of impeachment trial [Click]
ReplyDeleteDershowitz [ATL for DT 1st impeachment trial] Had ‘No Idea’ What Trump’s Lawyer Was Doing [Click] “There is no argument. I have no idea what he’s doing. I have no idea why he’s saying what he’s saying.”
Trump’s Lawyer Suggests He Should Be Arrested [Click] Also doesn’t know what “high crimes and misdemeanors” means.
Professor Says Trump Lawyers Misrepresented His Work [Click]
Biden Can Now See Trump’s Calls with Putin [Click]
Wisconsin Officials Predict Big Turnout for Recall Election June 5th [Click]
Why Trump’s Attacks On Democracy Could Be Criminally Charged [Click]
Dominion Hired PIs and Tracked Sidney Powell Across State Lines To Serve Lawsuit, Attorneys Claim [Click]
I flatly don't see the point of a headline about a recall election eight years ago. Why do we want to read about a 2012 election now?
DeleteIn particular, the GOP voters for the trial to proceed.
ReplyDeleteAh.
DeleteBelly laughing at the eejit Castor who keeps reminding the Senate that when the people don't like the President they will change that "like they just did." ROFL!! Yup! We're good like that. 😆
ReplyDeleteGosh, Schoen is now up and yelling his views at everyone. Why does he have to yell? Why does he have to come across with raw anger. What a fool.
DeleteSheesh! He is shouting that it's the House Managers that are acting from "base hatred" when *he's* the only person all day who has been speaking in anger. He's trying to make the point that the real problem is the Democrats. Yeah, sure. It was clearly liberal Democrats who stormed the Capitol and put the Presidency at risk, rather than the extreme Republicans who stormed the Capitol and put Congress at risk...as well as Democracy. Gimme a break.
DeleteAt least the Senate voted that the trial is Constitutional. May the rest of the trial go just like this.
Man, he actually shows Dems saying they think they support impeachment. And all of the quotes are from before the first Impeachment. But he skips over that Impeachment and uses the quotes to suggest the Dems just wanted to Impeach DT no matter what. But they already had! Then he tries to say that the real problem is that the House acted quickly to impeach in January [mind you, the most bipartisan vote ever] suggesting they didn't use due process and acted hastily. But...THEY WERE WITNESSES!! IT WAS DONE TO THEM!! If you don't want to be impeached, don't try to kill the people who can impeach you! Ha!
DeleteHa ha haaaahahaa! He's complaining that there ought to be witnesses! In the first Impeachment the R's wouldn't permit it. In THIS Impeachment every person in the room was a witness. I know they've only had a week to prepare. But come on...!
DeleteAnybody else notice that every time Atty Schoen takes a sip of water with one hand, he covers the top of his head with the other hand? Wil says he's covering his blow hole. But I won't so malign whales.
DeleteAh. I looked it up. Schoen is an Orthodox Jew. He is expected to cover his head when he drinks because he is to ask a blessing before eating or drinking, and he is expected to cover his head whenever he says the name of God. He would normally be wearing a kippah (yarmulke) but chose not to on the Senate floor.
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