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Isn't it amazing to have chance encounters like that? I was at the Dayton Hamfest and saw a guy who looked slightly familiar. Turned out he was in my radio-oriented Boy Scout troop back in 1958.

~Tom

Good one, Jack. Back when I was blogging heavily on Wordpress, I used to sign my posts with "T.O.M." which, in my mind meant The Old Man. It sort of morphed into Tom Oldman when I began to write stories and novels.

~Tom

Way to go, Janet! John Grisham, eh? That's stratospheric!

~Tom

Sol is referring to a username, Laranice, that got deleted by him as being spam. I got a request too. In fact, I got three such requests in an hour. I denied all three, so my home page is clean.

~Tom

Hi, John.

Once you edited the new text into the chapter and increment the revision number, you go to the top of the home page and select Portfolio in the right-hand dropdown., Find your story and in the right-hand drop-down of that row, select "Publish Setup". Review the setup and even if you don't change anything, Click the Update Publish Settings button. That should repost your story, deduct points, and put it at the top of the "new stuff" column.

~Tom

II could probably do that, Max, but my desktop keyboard/mouse platform is set up right-handed and it won't lend itself to left-handed use. It has a sunken keyboard pukka and a small platform to the right for the mousepad/mouse.

~Tom

Happy to hear that, JP. It's a great story.

~Tom

I agree, Janet. There are quite a few methods of describing what you described - and they don't involve fingers or inches. The detail is unnecessary and more likely to be included in a "skin" book than anything approaching literary. Sounds as if the author was going for a faux-English flavor to the novel and didn't quite make it. If a person doesn't know much about the aetting/era they are writing into, then either research the heck out of it, or try another venue.

~Tom

You and yours have a good holidays time, too, Janet. My house is stuffed to the eaves with family. They're sleeping air mattresses on the floor. Wonderful times with both my kids and their kids.

~Tom

This is not a bug, Sol, just an observation. Following my last round of ophthalmology treatment, I find that trying to read how many points I have on my home page is nearly impossible. The choice of grey background and white font (all the rest is in blue, which contrasts nicely) makes it hard to read the numbers. Could that be changed to blue also?

~Tom