The Writer's Life 12/29 - Motors

Navy QB Keenan Reynolds ended his fabulous career brilliantly yesterday in his team's Military Bowl victory over Pitt. He scored three TD's, bringing his total to 88, which now stands as the all-time major college record. He also broke the all-time rushing record for QB's. Anchors aweigh, young man.

I've just checked my standing in the ESPN bowl pool. So far I'm 12-9. Three touts are tied at the top at 20-1, and there are a lot of players between them and me. Even if I correctly pick the rest of the games I doubt I'd qualify for a prize. C'est la vie.

I've read 118 of the 352 pages of the proof copy of my next book, and I've found 21 errors. Three involve the lack of italics, two the lack of indentation. I was shocked to find that the entire last page of a story was missing. Since it rained today I filled time by making the necessary changes. The layout seems perfect. At present I'm not sure if I'll order another proof copy. I'll see what the Create Space online book preview looks like. My biggest worry originally was whether the page numbers in the Table of Contents would match up correctly with the works, as my previous book, Rising Star, came out a page shorter than expected. The page citations are perfect in this proof. Will they be so in the next? I had to change numbers to at least half the works. I've really enjoyed reading those stories I hadn't looked at in a long time.

RIP Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, bassist and front man for the heavy metal band Motorhead. He was a true rock n roll rebel, smoking and drinking, despite cancer, until the day he died. Here's a quote attributed to him: "In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal. In your forties, you just pray it doesn’t hurt too much, and by the time you reach my age, you become convinced that, well, it could be just around the corner. Do I think about death a lot? It’s difficult not to when you’re 65, son."

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