End of year paperwork...

Today started with updating paperwork for A Place of Safety-Home Not Home, on Bowker, the company that issues ISBNs for books and such...and realizing I'd made a major blunder. When I set the ebook up on Smashwords, I input the wrong ISBN. It was correct on the text, just not in Smashwords' file. So I had to take the wrong one down and re-submit everything correctly; they won't let you update the ISBN, itself.

That's an embarrassment.

I also was having trouble with the DVD player I'd bought from Amazon. If a movie was over 105 minutes, it would suddenly start claiming it was skipping over damaged areas and get into a weird whirling situation where I couldn't even eject the disk. I'd have to unplug it then plug it back in. It's done this a couple other times, and last night was the final straw.

I was watching The Man Who Came to Dinner, with Bette Davis, and as it was getting to the finale, bam. Damaged!! Can't let you watch that! So I jaunted over to Best Buy, got a new one and played the final sections of the movie...and not one problem.

I'm not buying anything from Amazon, again. That thing supposedly had a 2 year warranty but try and find out through Amazon how to handle it. I posted a negative review and will junk the damn thing. This new one cost twice as much but it's better if I don't have to deal with electronic bullshit.

I grabbed the makings for avocado toast, while I was out. Wegman's guacamole, tomatoes, and real sourdough bread. Made it this evening...and damn, it was good.

With Arrested, I guess the next step is to see about turning it into a book. I'll need to do a fair amount of research to make certain I'm handling the misdemeanor trial and arrests and really everything correctly. But it's nudging at me and the book I thought I'd return to, Dair's Window, is remaining silent.

God only knows what's going to happen, next.