Withe the book pimping email, and need to dress and go to church, so book promo after.
Meanwhile, OH MY GOSH, GUYS! THANK YOU:
And thank you, whoever you are who wrote this review. My head is so swollen I go through doors sideways now. This might be the BEST review of my lifetime:
And while I go dress and to church, yeah, yeah, I beat the clankers into a futuristic tavern video and….
According To Hoyt 
Would having your Priest bless your computer (or yourself) make the “technical difficulties” go away? [Wink]
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I’m not sure why there’s a problem since she has two and four footed tech support…..
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I’m NOT sprinkling it with holy water!
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Of course not.
But a Priest can Bless your computer without using Holy Water on it.
Now I don’t know what would happen if he used Holy Water on you. [Grinning While Flying Away Very Fast]
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She’d get wet? 😛
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Congrats, Sarah!!!
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I bought volume I the day it became available on Amazon, and I’m going to buy volume II two days from now. I’m glad to see it doing well. C offers her congratulations! I hope the series gains momentum. . . .
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Me too. Now to work on the second. Turns out your mother dying breaks your head a little. But I’m almost functional again.
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You right a great and glorious book, you get a great and glorious rank! Congratulations!
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I’ll be buying when book #3 is out. If I have the first two, I’ll binge read them, get frustrated waiting, and then possibly forget.
The plan is – buy all three, binge read all three, binge reread all three, review all three.
I know, I know, no help with the algorithm. But the brain that had multiple “episodes” back when I subscribed to magazines and couldn’t find the first part of the serial when the last one came out is just this way.
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…and then you’ll be clamoring for book 2. :)
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I was going to go for the 1,2,3 binge, but the huzzas and such convinced me to start right away. I’m glad I did. As it stands, Part 2 is out just before I do the trip to see my retina doc. Won’t be able to read for several hours after my eyes are dilated, but I’ll have the evening before, and (much) later that day. Part 3, just before minor(ish) knee surgery. I’ll have a few days stuck inside, so I’ll be reading.
I went with the preorders. They’ll automatically load to the main Kindle (latest version), though I also have a 2014 model that’s built like a tank (slow processor and can’t do all the cool kids stuff, but it’s good enough) that’s my away-from-home machine. Comes along on shopping trips when I break for lunch, and medical happy-fun-days when I’m recovering from the latest adventure.
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“couldn’t find the first part of the serial when the last one came out”
I subscribed to Analog for years; my father in law subscribed and passed them on to me, so I got some of he Campbell years, then when FIL passed, got my own subscription.
I’d eventually pass my copies on, and I tried to bundle together all the issues with a serial work.
But then, I read LOTR in high school, starting with Two Towers because that one came available as they were passed around.
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There’s a separate category for ‘genetic engineering SF’?
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YooToob won’t let me watch the vids without signing in. “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot.” Nope, don’t do that.
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That YooToob thing? Seems to be The New Coolness – I get that on every vid.
Feh!
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Do you use a vpn? I get that block, switch to a different server, voila it lets me through. YMMV
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Aha!
Seems to be a US YouTube issue – switch to Denmark, for example, and everything plays.
So, why are three people mimicking clothes-washing at the round table?
(Joke, Ms Hoyt – it’s those AI gremlins, I know.)
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I can’t get them to CLAP. So I figure that must be the new thing. Also, what twerps!
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https://freetubeapp.io/
Very useful. Only drawbacks are that about once a month, Yootoob changes things up to try to force people to sign in and be tracked, and it takes the FreeTube developers a few days or a week to work around it, and you must sign in to view age-restricted stuff.
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Huh. Ewe Tube didn’t complain with I used Firefox on Linux. I don’t have Pale Moon set up quite right to get YT videos on the user account. Haven’t tried to watch as root in PM, I’ll save that for a cold day in [redacted]. (Makes cross with fingers).
I don’t watch much, so that might come into play. Perhaps a YT video once or twice a week. Zero problems for Palemoon with other providers, Xwitter, Catbox, and so on.
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I generally have not had problems with youtube in Pale Moon and Vivaldi, but if they have just changed MO, I do not have data on that.
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It seems to be my install; I did some trial runs several months ago running PM under root, and it was OK. Tried opening permissions, but there’s something I don’t have quite right. That’s why I keep a copy of Firefox available.
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Been getting that “YooToob won’t let me watch the vids without signing in” bummf on and off for months, trying to watch space videos like Marcus House or Ellie in Space. Since I don’t have a U-tube account, that would make it kinda hard…
And, yes, it may be associated with using a VPN; but I’ve found if you just switch exit points (not just to another country, but even within the U.S. domestically), it seems to go away nicely.
The real solution seems to be, avoid You-Tube and its follies entirely if you can (using a direct link like SpaceX has now, or simply using another service like X — even on a borrowed account). Not optimal for them, certainly, but possibly optimal for the user. (FAFO Free Market Edition.)
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And today, the YooToob ‘login’ requirement has disappeared.
Mysterious are the ways of the tech-weenies.
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Thank YOU, for writing it.
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So, is there / will there be a non-Amazon electronic edition of No Man’s Land? (Looked a few times, nothing came up.) Now that it’s out (or about to be) with Part 2, the question’s getting more relevant, and the desire to actually read a little more pointed. (Patience does have its limits, even in those of us abundantly so blessed.)
For background, I tend to get paper or non-Amazon e-books, just because of the whole “walled garden at Amazon” thing — why support authoritarianism if there’s a choice? And since I only have an e-book account with Amazon, the mail-order from them likely wouldn’t work for ’embodied’ books too. (I WILL be getting this book / these books one way or another.)
And congratulations on the rankings, though, no surprise at all…
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Yes. It’s been delayed, probably till December, by mom’s death and the fact that I’ll have to go to Portugal, which is the current project.
Sorry. I really didn’t expect it. No one did. i thought she was good for another ten years.
And unfortunately, except for my assistant who mostly does the scheduling and keeping me on track and such, this is a one woman operation. CEO, CFO, CTO and Chief bottle washer.
Yes, IF this book does sufficiently well, I want to get some help, but at this point just a little tight. (Particularly because the trip to see dad, on short notice, is bloody expensive. But for various reasons psychologically important.)
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Check GSG. Go!
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Absolutely important. My son and I drove 600 miles to visit my brother shortly before his death (may your father be more fortunate than he and live to see his first great grandchild) and we were glad we did it. Even though I did get pulled over for driving while exhausted (ok, for running a red-light I was too tired to notice).
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Oh, he has great grandchildren, from my brother.
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I’m glad your happy with the review. After all these years reading you, it’s the least I could do – and it’s even true. :)
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I had no idea it was you. And I was SO ecstatic. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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