Plinking at progress...

Lisa reports she's feeling confident about trying to set a date for her dissertation proposal. That means, at least for the moment, most of her committee can agree about what she means on the stuff for her study (I understood most of it... oh... a year ago?). Of course once she actually has a proposal date she gets to gear up for people asking interesting questions about what she wants to study...

Over on my side of the office I've made my first foray into the world of gun smithing. Nothing really exciting I put a new grip on my snubby.

Truly one of those cases of 'if you read the instructions and think things will go OK'.

I've even succeeded in getting Lisa to do a little shooting

If I recall this one was taken while she was amazing a friend of mine by taking out her target on the first shot.

Speaking of that trip... some of my folks heard me talking about hitting the bottle...

In my world that might not mean what you think it means... But, I did find a really fun way to make the broken glass for my 'beach glass' projects! Incidentally the silvery bit is where my round hit the back side of the bottle. I'm finding there's a whole interesting sub set of ballistics here... Lisa took out her bottle on the first shot with a .38 special. Mine (above) hit the bottle in a different spot and only shattered one side of the bottle. My buddy with a .40 cal decapitated the bottle with the first shot and needed a second to shatter it... interesting... I think I need more bottles...

Here's some of the glass after the next stage of processing...

What am I going to do with it? I'm not entirely sure yet but that's the fun part!

 Warning!!! Talky wordy stuff ahead! (Gah! You'd think he'd stop talking about writing at some point!!!)

The book I was going to do related to the glass stuff has fluctuated, but is currently back on (which means I'm up to three books actively in some stage of the works, with a back list to be worked on (yikes!)).

I've started research for a new (non craft related) non-fiction. I'm not sure which is scarier: the fact that I've committed myself to read 2000 pages worth of research material, or the fact that I know exactly how many hours that will take me...

The third item on the schedule is the novel Johnson Farm which is in a read and edit mode at the moment. The first feedback is good and I am quickly moving on to the most critical segment of this part, actual young adult readers (dum, dum, DUUUM!!).

I'm also moving on to the marketing side for Johnson Farm. This will include the usual electronic commentary and advertising, and a Kickstarter Campaign  to fund the initial launch. To answer a question before it's asked I want to release the first one under my own label because I would really like it to be a Forever Mountain book. There are plans in the works to move things over to a larger publisher after a couple of critical goals (including the writing of the second book). So, hopefully I'll be doing a book signing at a Deseret book near you at some point in the near future (Maybe Seagull for you LA people...)

And yes I did mention writing the second book... That's this years NANOWRIMO project, and I'll get around to talking about it later...

More to say, but I'll save some of that for the next one... Hopefully  Lisa's got some good news for us next week, and I'll see you in two. (In the mean time anyone who keeps reading will be sent back into that interesting place I call the inside of my head... Thanks to Information Society for posting the video and as for the rest of you...   don't say I didn't warn you...)