That was fun. Sick-sick for the last two days. Guess I needed it. My body’s way of putting me on the bench for a while. The beautiful thing about being that ill is I can’t think of anything else – book issues, work, wife troubles, neighbor nonsense – it all disappears. Just me and the pain. Bodies are marvelous machines. …

I really must learn to read directions. Uploaded my first e-book to Amazon two weeks ago. A snap. Uploaded the same mss. to smashwords.com on Friday. A breeze. Except for the 3,818 people uploading ahead of me! Spent much of the day monitoring the smashwords auto-refresh page, calculating if they upload books at the rate of 100 per hour mine …