{"id":907,"date":"2010-04-05T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=907"},"modified":"2010-04-05T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T15:22:00","slug":"the-holiday-is-over-thank-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"The holiday is over, thank goodness!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone who observes Easter or shares it with family had a great day! (Lent is over! \ud83d\ude42 ) Everyone else, I hope your weekend was pleasant and peaceful. Easter was just another working day for me, except for having a chocolate bunny for breakfast, and I baked myself a nice mini-loaf of bread for supper:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bylightunseen.net\/pictures\/bread4-4-10.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" alt=\"bread\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just regular everyday bread, though, nothing fancy like all those rich Easter breads.<\/p>\n<p>We had beautiful weather all weekend, definable as, &#8220;we didn&#8217;t have two inches of rain both days.&#8221; Just kidding! It was just over 80 degrees on Saturday and just under 80 degrees on Sunday. The Nashua River dropped below flood stage, and Mass. Highway re-opened Rte. 119. &#8220;The damage [to the road] was not as great as anticipated,&#8221; the police website said&#8211;well, <i>that&#8217;s<\/i> good, and I&#8217;m sure there was great incentive to open the road <i>before<\/i> this morning&#8217;s commuter rush. It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littletonma.org\/content\/1306\/7594.aspx\">still closed up in Littleton<\/a> where the culvert is being repaired, though.<\/p>\n<p>Signs of spring: The laundry is hanging on the outside line today! For the first time since&#8230;well, I didn&#8217;t note it, but September, I think. It&#8217;s about 72 degrees, sun and clouds, breezy&#8211;everything might even be dry before I leave for Parish Committee meeting tonight. Other signs of spring: I&#8217;ve opened up the back windows, and I&#8217;m pining over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mantisgardentools.com\">Mantis website<\/a>. I think flood season is over. On to tornado season! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><i>Krymsin Nocturnes<\/i> got through Amazon&#8217;s vetting process and is &#8220;live&#8221; as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B003F775AI\">Kindle edition<\/a>. It&#8217;s also been approved for Smashwords&#8217; Premium Catalog and will go out with their next &#8220;shipments&#8221; to Sony, Apple, Barnes &#038; Noble and Kobo. Lightning Source just shipped the proof copies of the hardcover and paperback editions I set up with them. Whew.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started blocking out the cover art for <i>The Longer the Fall<\/i>. I&#8217;ve renewed By Light Unseen Media&#8217;s ad on Facebook&#8211;if anyone sees it, do let me know! I tried it for a month in January and got no clicks at all, but it was pretty dull&#8211;I looked at it last night and thought, &#8220;what was I thinking??&#8221; I jazzed it up a little, not that Facebook gives you a lot of flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d still love to connect with someone, <i>anyone<\/i>, who has an iPad and can verify that BLUM&#8217;s titles are in the iBookstore. Is anybody out there an early adopter, or know someone who is?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and you can stop worrying: They caught <a href=\"http:\/\/wbztv.com\/local\/emu.in.waltham.2.1612406.html\">the emu that was terrorizing Waltham<\/a>. Assuming that was the only one. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone who observes Easter or shares it with family had a great day! (Lent is over! \ud83d\ude42 ) Everyone else, I hope your weekend was pleasant and peaceful. 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