Another spot of chilly weather rolls in, and the cats have joined us in bed for the night.
I took some time to go exploring for the local restaurant supply store and found one in Largo, one of the towns to the north of here. They had lots of cheap, huge pots and pans, but nothing like the saucier I was looking for. I picked up some plastic squeeze bottles and a smallish ladle, but didn't spend any real money. At least I have a good source of half-sheet pans should I ever need to replace the ones I have or give some away as gifts. Trust me, once you use a sturdy aluminum half-sheet pan, any other cookie sheet looks downright anemic.
I'm currently spending a lot of time gathering quotes for the printing of our book; it seems that the world of book printing is rather wild and wooly, with some folks who will gladly charge you four or five times the amount that another printer would for the same job. The quality varies as well; some printers seem no better than good photocopies.
I paid the well-respected ParaPublishing group the ten bucks they wanted for a list of reputable printers and their thoughts on what any given job "should" cost, but of course their automated electronic file delivery system screwed up and the file never downloaded. Now I can look forward to calling them in the morning to complain.
I'm also not sure that I'm asking for the right things. I was thinking that our cover was a four-color job, but now I think maybe it's a two-color job. It's a black-and-white layout with a bit of red spot-color (a lot like the title graphic on the promo web site) – or, at least it will be, once I get it laid out. But it's all in my head, honest.
There's so much to do that I'm having trouble deciding what to do first. Updates to the site are suffering (poor Jeff Stanford's Queen of the Damned review has been on tap for nearly a week) and I need to stop my head from spinning and just start checking items off the to-do list.
Did I mention I have a day job? That's been a barrel of fun, too, with two of the users I support screaming at each other today over the page layout of a document. I joke about being a control freak, but some people really need chemical help.
I took some time to go exploring for the local restaurant supply store and found one in Largo, one of the towns to the north of here. They had lots of cheap, huge pots and pans, but nothing like the saucier I was looking for. I picked up some plastic squeeze bottles and a smallish ladle, but didn't spend any real money. At least I have a good source of half-sheet pans should I ever need to replace the ones I have or give some away as gifts. Trust me, once you use a sturdy aluminum half-sheet pan, any other cookie sheet looks downright anemic.
I'm currently spending a lot of time gathering quotes for the printing of our book; it seems that the world of book printing is rather wild and wooly, with some folks who will gladly charge you four or five times the amount that another printer would for the same job. The quality varies as well; some printers seem no better than good photocopies.
I paid the well-respected ParaPublishing group the ten bucks they wanted for a list of reputable printers and their thoughts on what any given job "should" cost, but of course their automated electronic file delivery system screwed up and the file never downloaded. Now I can look forward to calling them in the morning to complain.
I'm also not sure that I'm asking for the right things. I was thinking that our cover was a four-color job, but now I think maybe it's a two-color job. It's a black-and-white layout with a bit of red spot-color (a lot like the title graphic on the promo web site) – or, at least it will be, once I get it laid out. But it's all in my head, honest.
There's so much to do that I'm having trouble deciding what to do first. Updates to the site are suffering (poor Jeff Stanford's Queen of the Damned review has been on tap for nearly a week) and I need to stop my head from spinning and just start checking items off the to-do list.
Did I mention I have a day job? That's been a barrel of fun, too, with two of the users I support screaming at each other today over the page layout of a document. I joke about being a control freak, but some people really need chemical help.
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