Friday 11/22/2024
Took the usual walk. The weather people claimed the “atmospheric river” that has brought multiple inches to the north bay was finally coming to the south bay, but I could tell from the radar map at 8am, there would be no rain on us for at least a couple of hours. So my walk was nice and dry. The rain finally did arrive after lunch. On the walk I saw a spectacular tree.
At 11 I met with Alice and we practiced singing RATCT, getting to sound pretty decent.
Then I sat down to do some work on a project that dates back to July, 2021 (day 2.214 and prior). That was when I “published” my children’s (actually middle-grade if you want to be technical) SF novel, Pelajis, on the then-new Kindle Vella platform. Where it sat with nobody reading it for 3+ years. Recently Amazon announced they were taking Kindle Vella down. They advised all authors that they could download their work and were welcome to re-publish it as a Kindle ebook. So I started that process today. Downloaded the book, imported it into the Amazon proprietary Kindle Create app, and began a light editing pass. It’s a darn good little story if I do say so. Anyway I need to finish editing it, also find something to use for cover art and maybe a couple of interior illustrations. The whole Generative AI thing has happened since then! I will try using Midjourney or maybe Gemini to generate art for it.
I saw where SFJazz was streaming a concert by Jake Shimabukuro tonight. Whoopee I thought, he’s great, and I announced on CHBB I would put it on the 11th floor TV. Only a few people turned up, which was a good thing, as Jake was not up to the level of virtuosity I remembered. The first half of the show was pretty boring, in fact. But he did perform one song I’d never heard but think I should probably learn, “Grateful“.
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