Blog Post 96

The Tessera Trilogy  Blog entry 96

Sooley Base word count as of 18 October 2012 – 82,092.

Working to turn lemons to lemonade. An upgrade to prime PC involved uninstalling Office XP Small Business, which lacked Power Point program. The second phase was installing Office 2007 Student and Home Edition, which has Power Point. The problem was that the newer version lacked the desktop shortcut bar, so to open a Word document one has to activate Word, then “OPEN” each document, then re-save as a Word document. It was a lengthy and time consuming effort. But it is mostly done for the many Word documents.

This effort caused re-examination of the many fragments, chapters of Sooley Base. The effort showed lots of work to insert meaningful dialogue, re-sequence the fragments into appropriate segment of the novel. The work goes on. Work does continue despite all distractions on Sooley Base, the second novel of The Tessera Trilogy.  

The day at volunteer job allowed me to spend time working on Sooley Base, although completing it before Black Friday or even the end of the year remains a moot question – probably March of 2013 looks achievable.

Fredericksburg is about to celebrate the 150^th Anniversary of the Battle which contested the city, and filled cemeteries with Union and Confederate dead. It occurred during what it sometimes referred to as the The War of Yankee Aggression, or That Late Unpleasantness … one can get the feeling that some which the South had won. SAD!!!

Have been scanning lots of old family photos, burning them and files to CDs to share, in an effort to downsize genealogical efforts to just my paternal roots. Parts of the efforts are in the HICUZ Blog at http://hicuz.blogspot.com/ .