Monday Open Thread

Pardon my lack of posts, but I have kids home today (one of those teacher meeting days), and I’m getting interrupted every minute or two with questions about baking.  There’s lots of baking going on.  That’s not a bad thing.  Concentrated baking activity is the opposite of idle hands being the Devil’s playground, but the kids are calling for my advice constantly.  (Which is ironic, considering how minimalist my baking skills are, but that’s another story.)

I also continue to put together old posts with the idea of assembling them into an e-book.  Do you think people would pay money to read the best of my old posts? It would be nice if I could generate a little nest egg, especially considering the time I lavish on my beloved blog.

I now have 300,000 words worth of old posts.  I need to winnow out the mediocre ones, get rid of the ones with too many block quotations (’cause I don’t want copyright issues), and do some heavy proof-reading and editing.  Mistakes that are almost tolerable on a free blog that gets churned out daily are intolerable in a coherent book form that costs money.