Sunday, July 30, 2017

Day 1862: Goal Oriented

My husband says I'm obsessed, but I think a better phrase to describe me is goal-oriented.  My two summer goals have kept me from doing lots of my regular summer activities.  I've barely touched the camera and my new lenses.  We've not been into Buffalo or gone out to see a movie.  I haven't shopped, which is no big loss.  And I've let my political action lapse.  Just another month of intensity and life should return to a normal pace.

In swimming, if I want to hit 100 miles this summer, I had to reach 50 miles by the end of July.  Today, I met the goal.  50.2 miles and I have one more day to spare.
Thats not bad considering I didn't swim four days last week due to the reunion and my fall injuries.
The big question is whether my elbow will hold out from the strain.

And the book.  Tonight I sent off edits on the seventh mock up.  Just three pages this time and all of them were very tiny items.  I think there will be two more line by line close readings after this.  So, maybe two to three weeks more on editing.

Justin worked a bit on the cover image and submitted four possibilities today.  However, I don't like any of them.

My next task is to write the blurb for the back cover and the Amazon entry.

The monstrosity that is our president committed a few more atrocities this week.  He declared in a tweet that transgender people can no longer serve in any capacity in any branch of the military. Estimates range from 2000 to 15,000 members of the military, both active and reserve, who are transgender.  Their lives, careers and families were thrown into chaos with his irresponsible tweet.

Plus, he spoke to the Boy Scouts of America at their Jamboree and said many highly politicized and inappropriate things.  The BSA had to apologize for his comments.  Then he spoke to a police department and encouraged them to harm those arrested.  Police agencies all over the country decried his remarks.  Then today, he went after China because they have solved the North Korea problem.

Fortunately, thanks to Senators Collins, Murkowski and McCain, the health care repeal was stopped.
For now.


Friends for more than fifty years, reunited once more.  


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