Well, dear readers, I suppose I can reveal a huge secret – today is the last of February. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, today is the last of February – not the last of Sheila, mind you, the last of February, which means tomorrow we march, march, march into March, and it is my fervent hope and prayer that March will be a month filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful. As to yesterday, what kind of a day was it? Well, let’s get down to both the nitty gritty and the gritty nitty, shall we? I got about six hours of sleep. I’d pre-ordered hot dogs from the good place and they arrived at noon – my usual – chili and onions and mustard and onions. Only I got mustard and onions and a plain dog on a bun with nothing on it. This place is really great, so I found that odd. I got a refund for the chili dog and placed another order and included a corn dog with it. Then I got a notice from Yelp and the owner. He thought it was odd that I hadn’t wanted anything on my usual chili dog and was checking with me. I told him that I always order it but that DoorDash completely revamped the ordering page – so I checked and sure enough I’d checked to leave all ingredients off because I misread the section. Very irritating. I apologized to the owner, but he was great and just as irritated with DoorDash – but at least the corn dog covered the refund. Not only did I get my new order, he included some chocolate ice cream as a little gift. But let’s talk about food for a minute. Something is going on and it’s either me or the jernts I order from. For the past week I’ve had a lot of my standard stuff, and it just hasn’t tasted good to me. I end up tossing stuff I would normally never toss. I’m hoping that stops at some point, but at least I’m not overeating. Where was I? Oh yes, yesterday. I got dressed and then moseyed on over to the mail place to get the important envelope – second month in a row it was not there early, but then again, that’s probably February for you. Then I made the decision to swap out one of the bonus tracks on our upcoming CD – just wasn’t happy with it. So, that’s getting done and I’m working on the liner notes and packaging. Still waiting for the packaging approval for The Sherman Brothers Album – would love to announce them together. I came home, wrote some flap copy and am having it looked at by fresh eyes for comments, which is what I’ve been doing with flap copy recently. It’s always tricky, because you want to intrigue and entice a reader that it’s worth their time, while not wanting to give away much of anything beyond the initial situation and plot.
After that, I dozed off for a couple of hours. I’m actually quite bored of these dozing off things. I did watch some irritating YouTube videos, and then I watched an hour of a motion picture entitled Twilight’s Last Gleaming, a kind of Seven Days in May thing from 1977, directed by Robert Aldrich with a starry cast including Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Burt Young, Paul Winfield, Roscoe Lee Browne, Charles Durning, Melvyn Douglas, and some fine character actors. Vera Miles played the president’s wife, but all her scenes were cut. Sadly, it’s not very good, but the actors are so it’s fun to watch them. And I do hate to say it, but it’s not Jerry Goldsmith’s finest hour. He did much better work on other films that year, including one of his best – Islands in the Stream, plus MacArthur and The Cassandra Crossing. I’ll finish it today and then watch a new movie. Oh, and I got my first blurb – very nice – and figured out who might do another, contacted that person, and he’ll do it and he might recommend a third. And here we are.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll do whatever needs doing, I’ll call the mail place to make sure the important envelope is there and if it is I’ll go retrieve it and deposit it in the ATM. I’ll eat something – maybe even get something from Gelson’s I can bring home or maybe even make something here that I know will taste good – then I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow is more of the same, then next week is getting the book files to the publisher, putting it up for pre-order with our new CD release, also I’m pretty sure we’ll be shipping the How to Succeed CD late next week, a month early, and lots of other stuff, including a couple of meetings and meals.
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, do whatever needs doing, call the mail place and hopefully retrieve an important envelope, bank, eat, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite “end of the world” movies? I love Dr. Strangelove, Fail Safe, Ladybug, Ladybug, On the Beach, and a few others. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland on this, the last of Sheila – sorry, February.