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Measuring Time, Author-Style (reblog)

This tongue-in-cheek post from Nicholas Rossis put a smile on my dial. You can also read his delightful children’s book “Runaway Smile’ on his blog.

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Now, please don’t get me wrong. I love helping out others, especially Indie authors. After all, I wouldn’t be here today had not some lovely people taken the time to help me out.

However, I do suffer from a chronic shortage of time. This is partly because of my reluctance to say no when people ask me for help. In my defence, though, most people are not entirely accurate when they estimate how long it will take to complete a given task.

Therefore, I think we need to be honest about, say, how much time our request for a “quick read” or a “quick review” will take. After all, unless we’re Steven King, we can’t seriously expect people to read our 500-page-long book in a weekend now, can we?

After all, we can no longer afford the luxury described in The Gentleman’s Handbook of Etiquette and Guide to Polite Society (1860), which…

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This morning about 9:30. 11 C. The day stretches ahead of me and I wonder how much time I will waste today. I do love my life! The only deadlines are self-imposed.

Have a lovely day. 🙈🙉🙊

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The sunrise was worth seeing this morning.

2nd May 2015

2nd May 2015 … promising a gorgeous sunrise

This morning, taken with my new windows phone – a Nokia Lumia 530. The 520 began to get hard to turn on-and-off. A piece of the works where the on-button touches has worn out or broken off. Before that, I had problems with … well, actually, I can’t remember what my problem was … so I reset the phone. Ahh, that’s right, it wouldn’t auto-rotate properly. So I could never look at my photos without them switching around. Annoying. On the reset, that worked properly.

And yeah, there may have has been some confusion in my mind as to which actual model phone I had in the past! Nevertheless, the camera is probably the same.

When the 530 came up for a song I had to get one. It hasn’t got a camera side button and it’s tricky learning a new technique for holding it while I tap the screen. I don’t like it! But I do like being able to turn the thing on and off, mindful of not pushing harder than needed.

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isn’t this just gorgeous?!

... and over to my left, the clouds blush ...

… and over to my left, the clouds blush …

My coffee was waiting so I came inside.  One last look from my front window. This room used to be a bedroom, but we took out the wall between it and the lounge – turning it into a large L-shaped living area.  We see more of the range (above) now that the elm tree is nearly gone.

... from my front window.

… from my front window

Later, on my walk, there wasn’t a hint of sun and now, just after midday, it’s not much better.

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I’m actually going to knuckle down a do some writing today. I’ll resist the temptation to catch up on more blogs. I’ve managed to get around to a few this week, so expect me to call on you soon!

Have a nice day! 😀

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