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Time To Enjoy The Marrow

Once the bones have been picked clean, it's time to enjoy the marrow. Full of vitamins and minerals and other good stuff.

Herewith is an audio interview The Rennaisance Woodworker conducted with Chris Schwarz. For good measure, there's one with Adam Cherubini and other luminaries.

The Rennaisance Woodworker Audio Interviews

Till next, Gary

The Return Of The Irene

Much as I would like to say Irene is going the way of all things, this one seems to want to hang around. Having grown up on and lived on Long Island, NY, it's gonna be a hairy ride down there.

With the eye tracking to the west of the coast up here, that means high winds for Boston and vicinity and possibly 30 foot swells along portions of the coast. Yup, Sunday night is a high tide. The last time that happened, a goodly portion of the New England coast was destroyed. Now there are many more people living along the coastline which should make for some mandatory evacuations in the near future.

My one concern is the 30 foot elm in our backyard. The three trunks are cabled way up high, prunned yearly and generally in excellent health. It's also one of the last ones around here. We're keeping our fingers crossed it survives the storm.

Other than that, it's going to be AC units out of the windows, all storm windows down, trash cans tied down, basement drain plugged tight and lots of extra batteries for the portable fluorescents.

I love storms. Amy and three of the cats hate storms. Max loves storms. The more lightning the better for him. 

I will be wearing my sneakers with sticky tape on the soles just in case the wind blows.

till next, Gary

Irene, Good Night, Irene. I'll See You In My Dreams

What I see when I look at my window, twirling in the distance. Guess I won't need to water the plants this week.

Courtesy my friends at NASA.

Till next, Gary

Amazon Has A Field Day

Like many small publishers, periodically I spot check Amazon's listings of my books. Periodically, like many small publishers, I get a headache while checking Amazon's listings of books.

Normally, I'ld add links to the offending listings but there are too many to list. As of late, Amazon has been listing titles printed through Lightning Source/Ingram as Out Of Stock, Delivery in 1-3 weeks and variations on the same. I suspect the same is true for drop shipped books from Baker & Taylor. Oh, but not for drop shipped books from CreateSpace, the Amazon owned POD printer. For more details, read this blog post.

Then there is the Amazon habit of pulling descriptions and even covers from one title and displaying them on titles published by other companies or even by Marketplace sellers offering original copies of reprinted books. Lately I've been discovering my copyright protected covers popping up on books not of my production. Same goes for the Bowker ISBN descriptions I created.

The Village Carpenter on YouTube

Go there. Watch. Learn. Enjoy. Possibly the most talented woodworker I know online or offline. Said statement will embarass Kari I am sure, but that's what comes with excellence.

VillageCarpenter's Channel - Youtube

till next, Gary