Well, dear readers, I must write these here notes in a hurry because Amazon Seller Central is being annoying and I am having a back and forth with their bots, I suppose, and it is entirely frustrating. They deactivated my seller account because we were late in getting ONE tracking number in on time. That is because the helper had an emergency. I appealed and normally that will reinstate. You just promise to get it in on time. But they said they needed more, like maybe I should commit Hari Kari or get on my knees to these disgusting people. I’m “chatting” with a nice lady who understands completely how frustrating this is. She’s contacted the support team and asked them to do the right thing. If they don’t, I’m to open a new chat and I’ve copied the one I just had in which she says they were very wrong to not reinstate immediately on the first appeal. At this point, I’m so irritated that I’m ready to tell them to just remove the account in total. That would be too bad as I do have sales that are pretty regular, although it usually doesn’t amount to even a hundred a week, sometimes much less than that and never more. I’d just have to move everything that sells to eBay, but I don’t sell as much there for some reason. I do have to put Charlie Brown on eBay, though. Anyway, enough of that malarky. Continuing in G, now playing is the delightful piano concerto of Germaine Tailleferre, one of Le Group de Six, which included Honegger, Auric, Duray, Milhaud, and Poulenc. I’m a big fan of all those composers. I did manage to watch the first forty-five minutes of a motion picture entitled The Siege starring Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, and Tony Shalhoub. So far, it’s interesting on a few levels so I’ll watch the rest after posting these here notes. Otherwise, I got six hours of sleep, had a good Zoom meeting with the set designer, and liked the basics of what he showed me – I just had to readjust two things that wouldn’t work the way he had them. But I think it will be an interesting set that will work well for the piece and now he’ll do some serious 3-D models and detailed stuff with color. I’m someone who really needs to understand what the set will look like, what the space is, and how everything works. Then it becomes easy for me to stage. After the Zoom, I had the first batch of tuna pasta salad and took pill one and the other two pills. Then I did more organizing and catching up – I especially had to organize the closet in the book room so that I could actually find things. I then turned in the book files for the interior, so that’s done and I’ll see a galley next week. I had a long telephonic conversation, dozed off for an hour or so, had the rest of the tuna pasta salad and pill two, watched some irritating YouTube videos, had another long telephonic conversation, then watched the first part of the movie, had an English muffin and took pill three and then had to waste a lot of time dealing with this Amazon malarky. And here we are.

Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll definitely go to the mail place and I’m pretty sure I’ll go to the Cheesecake Factory at some point for food, I’m still hoping to hear about the missing hard drive, I’ll do whatever needs doing, I should hear a test mix on one of the vocals we saved with a proper band mix, and we’re doing another kind of test for a different project – should that work, I think it could result in some nifty CD releases. At some point, I’ll watch, listen, and relax.

Tomorrow, I have a telephonic call with the neurologist at three-thirty, otherwise the day is pretty open. I’m having a lunch on one of the two weekend days.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up when I’m up, definitely go to the mail place, probably sup at the Cheesecake Factory, hope to hear about the missing drive, hoping to hear a test mix and another test, and then I’ll watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: Cookies, baby, cookies. First kind of cookies you had as a kid. Your favorite kinds. What packaged cookies you still love. And do you make cookies or get them fresh from somewhere. I recently discovered an amazing cherry chocolate chip cookie from a bakery not far from here. Absolutely delicious and arrived warm, too. Must order that again. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, wondering when we succumbed to a world of bots and AI responses.