I’ve got a list of things to do, but I can’t recall that I’ve done any worth reporting here.

I’ve got a few people who did reviews of What Does God Expect? to whom I promised to send free copies of the new book About the Fruit, but I’m still trying to get their addresses together in one place, pack up the books, and get them mailed. It doesn’t help that I sort of don’t have enough copies. I have six copies, and I’ve promised them to three reviewers. However, my wife has one of the copies, and two of them have been handed to people at church. One of those has been thoroughly thumbed, and I promised to swap it for one in like-new condition and pass the thumbed one to one of the reviewers (who get theirs free) before I accept any money for it. Thus I have to hold onto one of the like-new copies until I can swap it for the slightly thumbed one, and that means I’ve only really got two copies I can ship unless I snatch the one my wife borrowed. (The other that is on loan will probably be gifted to the church library when it returns to me, so I’m not worried about it being a bit thumbed.) Meanwhile, I can’t find one of the three addresses I need, so maybe I’ll ship the two good ones and the third reviewer will get the slightly used one (which I think he won’t mind, particularly when he learns that he got one of the few copies that won’t have the ISBN bar code on it–he likes the rare collectible ones).

I also have to do my laundry and make dinner, but one of my houseguests was cooking a few minutes ago, so I figured I’d get this written and then do that.

–M. J. Young