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Longish weekend
I took Friday off to work on my article for a bit, then in the afternoon after Aki's tutor lesson we went to Pender Island to see my favourite uncle, who is visiting my dad. We almost left it too late to get the ferry as there was a huge lineup for... ships... going... somewhere... BC Ferries doesn't seem to know where or when, but you should line up all the same.
Saturday we went fishing and caught a big pink. I don't go fishing very often and catching something is even less frequent, so this was good. My Dad gave it to Aki - we took the 5:00 ferry home and I cooked the salmon on the barbeque for him, just that and some rice and he was fine.
Sunday I worked on my article all day and I would say that it's finished! Although I might add one small sidebar on the Greek Civil War's place in the Cold War as a whole - hm, maybe I will just work that into the body of the article. The darn thing is probably too long, I'm guessing it's well over 9,000 words. That's the problem with writing about these conflicts for gamers - some will have little idea what happened so there has to be lots of narrative; others already know the gist so you have to have lots of niggling detail. And there's never a lot of room left for analysis, without all that supporting narrative or detail. And if you're wrong about something trivial, they will let you know about it - well, maybe not: in all the articles I have had published in this magazine, I have only ever had one error pointed out to me, and it was a misplaced border in a map that I never saw until the article was printed, between two countries that were not germane to the subject of the article. But I suppose the correspondent felt obligated to say something.
Anyway, glad I am finished - I always curse while I am doing it, "whatthehellamIdoingthisfornoonereadsthedamnthingsandit'sjustsixcentsafreakingword" but I am always glad when it's done (and even happier when I see it in print). Next, something on Dieppe, but I have until the end of the year to write it.
Saturday we went fishing and caught a big pink. I don't go fishing very often and catching something is even less frequent, so this was good. My Dad gave it to Aki - we took the 5:00 ferry home and I cooked the salmon on the barbeque for him, just that and some rice and he was fine.
Sunday I worked on my article all day and I would say that it's finished! Although I might add one small sidebar on the Greek Civil War's place in the Cold War as a whole - hm, maybe I will just work that into the body of the article. The darn thing is probably too long, I'm guessing it's well over 9,000 words. That's the problem with writing about these conflicts for gamers - some will have little idea what happened so there has to be lots of narrative; others already know the gist so you have to have lots of niggling detail. And there's never a lot of room left for analysis, without all that supporting narrative or detail. And if you're wrong about something trivial, they will let you know about it - well, maybe not: in all the articles I have had published in this magazine, I have only ever had one error pointed out to me, and it was a misplaced border in a map that I never saw until the article was printed, between two countries that were not germane to the subject of the article. But I suppose the correspondent felt obligated to say something.
Anyway, glad I am finished - I always curse while I am doing it, "whatthehellamIdoingthisfornoonereadsthedamnthingsandit'sjustsixcentsafreakingword" but I am always glad when it's done (and even happier when I see it in print). Next, something on Dieppe, but I have until the end of the year to write it.
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Yeah, lots of nations seem to have one or more battles with a connected myth of supernatural intervention - the Angels of Mons, for example.