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Gremlins and/or Leprechauns

You can’t fool me with that gadgetry.ย  Computers run on gremlins, or leprechauns, andย every once in a while that mischievous need of theirs comes to the surface, and you are so screwed. Lucky for me, it was only a minor event this time.ย  I’m hoping my personal gremlin takes most of its obnoxious moods out […]

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Finally, Some Work Done!

It’s technically Saturday, but since I haven’t slept, it’s still Friday by my count.ย  It was a good day, Friday.ย  I got a gel pad keyboard wrist rest, so all the work I’ve done today doesn’t have me in as much pain as usual.ย  I just finished Chapter 13, before I came to blog!ย  (The

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Frustration is the Mother of Annoyance

Another long day of getting nothing accomplished, I swear.ย  Every five minutes, seemed like, someone needed something, and it was something only I could provide.ย  Argh! For once, though, I did not let my mother-in-law guilt me into driving her all over the place.ย  I didn’t invite her, and I told her they wouldn’t just

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Exhaustion Always Wins

Chapter 6 was all I got edited today.ย  My wild lifestyle finally caught up with me.ย  Of course, I’d figured that would happen eventually, and planned for a nap.ย  But just as I was signing off this wonderful causer of insomnia, hubby wokeย from his nap.ย  No problem, he can have the computer for a while,

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Kill the Adverbs!

It’s been a long day of adverb-zapping, here in editing-ville.ย  I got through five chapters, I think I have thirty-three to go.ย  BJ says it’s best to edit for one thing at a time, so first up is adverbs.ย  Then I will go looking for misused words, like blaster, the doc’s old name, and veterans

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