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Awesome!  Keep pushing, but don't push too hard.  And a major Happy Birthday to you!

Major congrats, bro, both to your wife and your 50th!

Finally got the debut novel published in a physical format yesterday, but I left out an important detail.  The Kindle page told me to adjust the file to the size I wanted, and I wrote the whole damn thing on 8.5x11 inches, apparently.  But since everyone was sending me videos, I had to do laundry, I had to get ready for a Christmas party AND I had to constantly deal with barking dogs and what not, I told myself "screw it ". So the book is the size of standard paper.

But this might actually be a good thing, because I have a lot of elderly customers at Dunkin who want to read my novel, so this checks out.  But my next book will be smaller.

My wife is on the mend now & I should be back at work tomorrow. She's had a really tough run though.

On the positive, I was surprised with a two-day visit to the Hunter Valley wine region on the way down to Sydney to see family to celebrate my 50th birthday last week. All of my Sydney & Newcastle based friends (including Ben & his wife) showed up & we had a brilliant couple of days, highlights by a spectacular lunch at the legendary Bistro Molines. Then we continued down to Sydney where we stayed for five or six days. Just got back late yesterday to prepare for a brief two-day work stint before the Xmas break.

good news

I did it.

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