thirty in

I'm thirty chapters in with my movie-review book. I just spent hours restocking scheduled posts for the blog; I'm going to work on some more chapters this evening, then spend Sunday tinkering with the code for my Do You Deserve to Vote? app and baking some celebratory new-year's cookies for certain people in my building (as I'd done with chocolate cake this past Christmas). This coming week, Monday through Wednesday, I'll be spending the lunar new-year holiday working on the movie-review book. On Thursday, I'll take a batch of keto chocolate-chip and oatmeal-raisin cookies to my #3 Ajumma for an after-holiday visit (I don't want to show up when the whole family's there, hence Thursday). Ajumma will get cookies as well as a copy of my homeschooling book. On Friday, I'll have to shelve all of my current efforts and get back to generating content for Substack to last through the end of April. Once that's done, I'll get back to the movie-review book—the first of what I see to be three volumes: 2004-2015, then 2016-2018, then 2019-2025 (that last one might have to be broken up into two or three volumes: my reviews have gotten progressively longer, on average, over the years, and I don't want any single volume to be more than 300-350 pages long).

Having found yet more formatting problems yesterday, I uploaded version 3.0 of the homeschooling-book's manuscript (sorry, Neil, but the second book I sent you from Amazon has defects you'll see pretty quickly). This third version seems to have all of the remaining difficulties ironed out of it... but you never know. The work goes on.