Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, July 4, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Fifth (Independence Day Edition)

It’s late morning here in Lithia, Florida, on Tuesday, July 4, 2023. Even though noon is – as I begin this post, anyway – less than two hours away, it’s already 87°F/31°C under mostly sunny conditions, and it’s going to be hotter still. Today’s forecast calls for mostly sunny skies and a high of 96°F/35°C. And that’s just the official temperature – the feels-like one is now at 97°F/36°C, so later this afternoon it will feel like it is in the low 100s/40s.

Definitely, as folks used to say in the 1960s, that’s not my bag, man.

Moving on…

Well, last night I received an email from Kindle Direct Publishing with this bit of news:

Congratulations, your paperback, “Reunion: A Story,” is published on Amazon. If you republished your book with updates, your changes are now live.

What’s next

• Availability. It takes up to 3 days for Amazon.com and up to 5 days for other marketplaces to show as in stock.
• Linking. The detail pages of your print book and eBook should link within 48 hours, but it can take up to 5 days. See requirements for linking.
• Product description. It can take 24-48 hours to appear on the detail page.
• Look Inside the Book. This feature will be available in 9-10 business days.
• Book Details. Changes to contributor, series name, series number, page count, description, keywords, and browse categories take up to 72 hours to appear.
• Learn more about publishing timelines.

Now that this third edition has been published and gone “live” – as it were – I must turn my attention to Reunion: Coda, which I had to put on the back burner while I fixed Reunion’s remaining issues.

The question for today, since it is the Fourth of July, and it is a holiday, is: do I work on it today? Or do I take the day off and wait till tomorrow to tackle the manuscript?

As it is, I’m leaning towards taking the day off, despite the fact that I have no one to hang out with here, and despite my frustration with not being able to go see Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. I need the rest; I spent most of my long weekend working on the revisions – sometimes as early as 5 AM! – and now I’m tired, irritated, and not in a “Let’s write a novel today!” mood.

I don’t know what exactly I will do today after I publish this post (besides, of course, obvious things like taking a shower, getting into a fresh change of clothes, and doing a few chores). I might read for a while – you can’t be a good writer unless you are also a voracious reader, after all – or maybe watch a movie out on the family room set.

Other options include:

• Gaming
• Listening to music
• Hanging out online on social media

Of course, if I get bored or if I can’t resist the urge to work on Reunion: Coda, I might do some writing later. I don’t on it, and – honestly – I would rather not.

Oh, yeah, before I forget….here’s a not-so-good picture of the Force Spirits three-figure Star Wars The Black Series (Return of the Jedi 40^th Anniversary) set I bought from Hasbro Pulse as my “60^th Birthday Present from Me to Me.” I’m not a skilled photographer, so this is the best I could do.

I don’t have much else to say, so I’ll close for now. Until next time, Dear Reader, stay safe, stay healthy, and I’ll catch you on the sunny side of things.