Whew!  Yesterday, the first day of the Damage Control tour, was a big day.  It was a tiring day.

 

Book tours are fun.   They are also exhilarating, frustrating, and exhausting.  And so, for the next while, blog updates will be notes from the tour.  Random notes from the tour.  Being at sixes and sevens makes it tough to be organized, so I'm going to send stuff along as it comes to mind.

 

This is becoming something of a tradition.  There is an error in Damage Control.  Surprise!!  Someone has spotted it.  I'm not going to tell you what it is, but Sharon Stites of Tucson is the first sharp-eyed reader to catch it.  Everyone else will be a late-comer.

 

When I talk to people at events, it's interesting to see how many people comment on items that appeared in the blog.  Last night a nurse told me that she had read the mammogram rant to her entire office.  And that they all thought it was hilarious.

 

When we came home, I found an e-mail from a man who was so encouraged by my husband's knee-replacement experience that he was making arrangements to move forward with his own surgery.  Actually a friend came to the signing last night, someone who knew Bill had knee replacement on June third.  She was surprised to see him there and said, "I thought he'd be in a wheel chair."  Well, no.  As a matter of fact, the escalator at the store wasn't working and he had walked up and down 26!! steps with no pain.

 

Last night my daughter and I spoke to a woman whose daughter got married on the same day my son-in-law lost his battle with melanoma.  It was a gentle reminder that endings and beginnings sometimes happen at the same time.

 

Last night as I was speaking, my grandson, Colt, wanted to join me on stage and was astonished when G, as he calls me, told him, "No."  He went back to his mom but he was really bummed about being rejected.   And I'm guessing that my granddaughters from Silverdale will be there to join me at the B & N event tomorrow night.  Years ago, when my mother used to attend book signings, I found it challenging to be both "author" and "daughter" at the same time.  It's more fun to be "G" and "author" at the same time.

 

It's now 8:19 AM of day two.  I've answered thirty-five e-mails and had a telephone interview--all before my third cup of coffee.  Yup, it looks like it's going to be another busy day.  Oh, and the construction guys just showed up to continue stripping the faux stucco off the house in preparation to putting on REAL stucco.  The banging and whanging has commenced.  It's a good thing the interview is over.