Today’s a random mishmash, so you may just want to skip to the quote. That’s probably the most interesting part of this post.

My website’s a disaster. At the beginning of this month, my blog roll vanished from my right sidebar along with my social media links and my embedded video. I finally found them all neatly stored in the footer. A lot of good they do there.

So after I figured this fix was way beyond my feeble technical skills, I reached out to someone who said he could take care of it…no problem. In the meantime, two posts went up on the same day. That was not my plan, but obviously, the website is now in charge.

Of course, this is the month I’m trying to tie up a lot of loose ends–personal and book-wise, so I can take a break at the end of April. Good luck, Lee.

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Some things are working as they should. The first weekend in April, I’m going to be in Monterey, CA at the Conference Center with my books and sharing time with other authors. I’m looking forward to that.

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I’ve almost packed for my trip and I’m excited about where I’ll be going. Some stops are Ely, Nevada; Escalante and Moab in Utah; Ouray, Colorado. Hiking in Zion and Bryce, exploring Devil’s Garden and Dinosaur National Monument. I haven’t been on a U.S. road trip in a very long time, so I’m ready to get started and my hiking boots are raring to go.

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I may have mentioned that I’m collaborating on a book, and my partner and I are doing the “almost final” edits before the end of April. This has been an interesting experiment, and I’ll be sharing some of what happened after we wrap this book up.

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Quote of the Month: “When things go wrong, don’t go with them.”–Elvis Presley

It’s said that during this month, people start behaving oddly. Well, no wonder. Here in California, everyone’s a bit nuts because we’ve lost an hour of sleep, and it takes a while to adjust. I’m used to writing early in the morning, so it takes almost all of March to get used to writing in the dark. Even the dogs are off schedule, needing their walk or their dinner at the usual time, but having to wait an extra hour just because…

Just because why?

Because it saves energy. That’s the justification. The idea came from New Zealand scientist George Vernon Hudson (1895) and British builder William Willett (1905). I think we’re lucky that neither of their proposed form of DST was adopted. Hudson wanted the clocks to go forward two hours! If we thought losing one hour was bad, think of two hours.

Willett had a more complicated suggestion. He wanted us to set the clocks ahead twenty minutes each Sunday in April, then back in the same fashion in September.

I don’t know about anyone else, but with this system, I’d never be on time to anything.

What’s your take on DST? Love it? Hate it? Could care less?

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So what’s coming up that’s of interest to writers?

The WEP in April has a great theme: “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” Entries start April 20. If you’re interested, here’s the LINK to the details.

If you missed the March 14 post about Where to Begin Your Marketing Research by L. Diane Wolfe, you can read it now. It has a lot of solid information for writers.

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Quote of the Week: “I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I’ve saved all year.” — Victor Borge (It seems history does repeat!)