That’s why I haven’t posted for a couple of days. I mean, you can only stretch the weather-topic so far … Albeit, it’s been great. Hardly a day under 70.
I notice that it’s a bit more moderate in the north, and that’s good too.
I’m still ‘smoking mad’ over Visa charging me 6-cents on the dollar when the exchange rate is less than 2-cents, so I went looking at other credit cards and came across CreditCards.com. It lists the top ten credit cards in Canada, and Master Card Gold is #1 at 9.9% annual interest. This compares to RBC Visa (which isn’t in the top ten) at 19.99% for secured credit qualifiers. So it pays (a bit) to shop around. PS. Visa is going to get my boot when I get back to Canada.
Living at a hotel is interesting, inasmuch as you get to see an array of people. Since everyone is away from their home turf there is no territorial instinct, and so most are on their best social behaviour. Mind you, there are some jerks too–mostly young–like the three females who checked in for the weekend. To make matters worse, there were three mddle aged guys who checked in at the same time.
Well, as they say, “they were off!” Each triumvirate went its separate way during the day and evening, but at about 2:30 AM–with a little (okay a lot) of alcohol mixed in–the girls would casually saunter up and down the walkway outside the guys’ room. Coyly, mind you, if giggling and tittering like a vixen in heat can be described as “coy,” and of course the guys would respond like hounds to the scent. Whereupon more giggling and tittering would result, this time with slap-and-tickle mixed in, while the rest of us tried to get some sleep.
I don’t think any of them got laid for all their shenanigans, and so the net losers were us.
I am heavily into writing these days, with breaks to do my reading and write my book-blog, and so I am making good progress–about 2,000 words-per-day. In addition, as I have mentioned before, I have found the’edge’ I have been working on. Now, instead of just a story, it has depth and dimension.
Interestingly I have gained this understanding from reading the work of others, and so I have those others to thank as well. The Florida climate (and NO SNOW to depress) have certainly helped as well.
Hopefully the story will be finished by the time I am ready to go home, and then begins the hunt for a new publisher. Untreed and Dream Spinner are my first two choices, but failing that I’ll self-publish in e-book format.
By the way, has anyone thought of a way to hold an electronic book signing?
Regards,
Gerry
