Quotes of the Day

"Swearing is part of a professional kitchen."

- Chef Paul, on the proper response to cooking missteps.

"They can make rules; that doesn't mean you have to follow them."

-Papa Blair, on new DNR rules prohibiting baiting of deer downstate.

The bond between "Jack D." and "the Captain"...

I just finished a rewrite of a story I wrote and published in 2005. Back then, a newspaper reporter read and reviewed the book, commending me for honestly revealing a "dark side" of characters who were "not entirely admirable."

Well, that reporter has since died, and the "client" has requested a second edition in which those blemishes in history are dabbed with peroxide. Now that I've finished the editorial work, I turned to layout only to find three-year-old archival layout files are unusable – corrupt was the technical description in the error message.

My son, for whom no irony is ever lost, thought the file corruption to be a fitting conclusion for this project. Me? I'm less interested in the global metaphor because an already tedious job just got more complicated.

Good thing we stocked up on hard liquor this weekend.