It's been Awhile

I have been doing a lot.  Visited Maryland for Thanksgiving and went to Arizona to family for a pre-christmas visit.  I got very sick there for the whole week. 
Saw Les Miz at the movies and Marilyn Maye at the Metropolitan Room. 
I've read "The Judgement of Paris" and "Millhauser", the daily Times, the New Yorker, and The Three Penny Review. 
But mostly I've been working on turning my blog into a book.  That has been very consuming.  I've gone back and forth with what I saw as the finished product and back and forth on the method of publishing.  I think I am on the right track now.  I am comfortable with what I've edited, 34 of the final 162 posts.  162 posts may not be the final number as I am deleting posts that don't schematically fit and also deleting a lot of photos because they add to the final price of the book.  When I finish editing it will go to Book Buddy for their editing and e-book publication with a PDF [portable disc file] so I can get it to a publisher for book publishing, the hard copy.  I've spent a lot of time learning about PDFs and Microsoft word..  But the hardest task has been the deletions.  I had a connection to the randomness of the blog.  The randomness of walking around New York and discovering so many special things. But not all of my ramblings were special nor fully fleshed out so and they needed to go as did the photos.  I do have the original in hard copy so I feel nothing is lost.  Once I decided on this plan the editing went smoothly.  I could have it ready for Book Buddy in a month or two.   If all goes according to plan.  I'll keep posting.