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rob: Good point, Amelia. The hours people spend reading are the greatest cost involved. Given that we sometimes get fooled and buy books we don't enjoy, it's nice to have a low cover price, too--if not for the successes, at least for the rejects.Rob

amelia: You may buy books because they are cheep (so you can fill a bookcase) or because you may or may not want it. But I hope people do not read books because they are cheap. time is to valuable

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Rob: Thanks, Amelia. Still, lots of people seem to think that stupid people doing stupid (embarassing) things is the ultimate in humor.Rob

amelia: I am with you. I do not find people doing stupid things funny. I find that people think I am funniest when I say the truth. Odd.

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Rob: Hi Amelia,Yep, you're right. Paper is okay although I think it's faster to look up words on the computer.--Rob

amelia: I thought Reboubt was some type of fort. So I was close. I looked it up in the dictionnary. Yes paper

Operation: World Wide: Just surfing through to spread a little peace and joy. Have a wonderful week.

Rob: Thanks, Clare. And what a fun site you have.--Rob

Clare: Wonderful work you are doing!! Keep it up! You have my support!

amelia: mom got here safe and sound. She said that I have a lot of food in the frig and was looking forward to stilton cheese. On the way home I will try to get some fig pine nut bread to go with it.

sparkle: Hi I am visiting the neighbourhood today and stopping in to say you have a lovely day

Rob: Hi Amelia,Sorry to hear about Da Vinci. It's possible your reading habits are a bit more sophisticated than the average. Since I get paid for sitting in basements, it's not all bad.rob

amelia: P.S. I got DaVinci code on tape. Listened to it but got annoyed. felt manipulated so stoped also felt like I knew the end already. Finally I think goddess worshipers can be just as bad as any other religion.

amelia: good luck on your classes. What a bad Idea sit in a basement in Hawaii while Karen plays outside.

amelia: Looks like you have a Texas walaby on the cover of your latest book,

Rob: From the spam I get, Lea is probably the only one not e-mailing me. My address is in my tag.--Rob

Lea: Hello Rob, I can't get any of your e-mail addresses to work... I would like to send you new submissions from Spotlight authors. Please let me know where we can reach you with review opportunities. Thanks!

Rob: Hi Amelia,Yes, that thought had crossed my mind as well. The slowest reader controls the remote. --Rob

amelia: group reading. No everyone reads at a different pace. who will be the one that changes the page?

Rob: Hi Amelia,The spammers must have figured out a way to overcome the safeguards. Hope this doens't mean I have to take it down again.Rob

amelia: what is with these odd tags? If we have a nuculr war and any one survives I dont mind if they take all the paper books I leave.

julai: hi,good day!I'm blog hopping to gani more friends since I'm just a newbie in the world of blogging. I like this site, I love to read novels.

Kris: Hello - I really enjoy reading your blog!

Rev. Handy: Just wanted to say hello and God Bless...

Lutchi : nice blog you got here...Visit me at my blog when u have time. TC

amelia: nothing is indistructable and when it wears out you want it to be recycleable. Also I am hearing about electronics being a trash problem.

Rob: Hi Amelia,But why recycleable? Why not just keep using it?Rob

amelia: priced so it will not be stolen, easily adapeted for large print, very light weight, very simple to use, hard to break, recycleable,

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amelia: be carefull of what you wish for.

Rob : Hi Amelia--Thanks for the feedback. Hope all is well with you. Want to hear about Africa.--Rob

amelia: great write up on you site.

amelia: Rob sorry about the horid flight. give my love to Pennie.

Brandon Doyle: Just out blog surfing.

rob: Thanks, Kristina. I appreciate the wishes--and hope that 2007 will be a great year for all of us. Steve, thanks as well. Momi--back at you. And Gentlesnob, I really do understand the appeal of paper. I understand the appeal of vellum, too, but I don't think we're going to see a comeback in that technology. Paper has had its day and its day isn't quite over, but it's on the way out. Hybrid technologies like print on demand machines are cool--but are like adding air conditioning to mulecarts.--Ro

Kristina O'D: Happy New Year, Rob, Karen, and all the BookForABuckers! May peace and goodwill rule forever!

Kristina: Happy anniversary, Rob and Karen! I wish you many many more, happy, lucky, healthy, surrounded by your loved ones.

Steve: Happy new year

Thursday, May 8th 2008

8:17 PM

Bridge Director Rob

I am pretty sure I'll never run a bridge club. I'm okay with people but I like them in small doses. A good club manager, like Dorsey Shaw or Donna Compton, genuinely loves people, cares about them, and wants to make them happy. I generally want them to back off and not overwhelm me (actually, I want them to fawn over me, telling me how much they love my books but that's another subject). Still, I'm interested in being able to direct games from time to time and so I've decided to take the Club Director class and exam this fall. To help me get ready, Dorsey allowed me to work as co-director in her morning game today.

Directing is interesting. I didn't know that there was a system for who gets what entries (table 3 is where the best players go). The ACBL has a program (ACBL Score) that handles a lot of the issues of movement, scoring, etc. It even warns you when you enter a score that just isn't possible. (Like 50 against a vulnerable team). But I'd never worked ACBL Score before so I got to struggle with it. Dorsey is not a computer person and she uses the DOS version. I haven't seen a DOS program for years. We got a few director calls, I got to see how bridge players interact with each other and the club director from a different angle, and Dorsey always makes a great lunch (today it was potato soup, homemade bread with cheese, fruit salad, and brownies. Yum). Since Natalie, the protagonist of my current WIP is a club manager/director, this definitely was useful research.

Afterwards, I went to the bank, deposited a few checks, took out far more cash than I deposited (not the right direction to go), and headed to the Richardson library where I put in a couple of hours writing. Not sure how much I got done--but the story continues to move along.

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