Crankypantsing

Is There an Editor in the House?

Shelly

Agatha Raisin 1

Agatha Raisin 2

Agatha Raisin 3

Agatha Raisin 4

Agatha Raisin 5

This book was clearly converted from paper to text via OCR. You can tell by the lack of spacing in passages of dialogue, making it seem as if the characters are talking to themselves, and by the peculiar substitution of Em and Ell for I’m and I’ll, and alsoplustoo by the frequent instances where multiple words are run together.

Normally, you’d expect a human editor to clean up that mess.  But you might also expect a human editor to have caught the misuse of “their” in the print version that the digital copy was made from. In both cases, you would be WRONG.

And this was not a 99 cent special from Bob’s Backyard DIY Publishing Shack, either. I paid $6.00 for that load of crap, which was published by St. Martin’s Press.

Pets, Photography

In the Sun

Shelly

In the Sun
Frances in the Sun

Carrots for the Dog's Treat Ball

I got Frances the StarMark Treat Ball a few months ago. She loves it, and it’s held up really well. And it’s soft jelly plastic, so it’s really quiet. I usually stuff it with a few puppy sized dog biscuits, but today, she’d already had as many of those as I thought she should. What to do? I sliced up some chunks of carrot, stuffed them in the treat ball, and gave it to her. It was a big hit!

My Garden, Pets, Videos

Franny vs. the Butterfly Bush

Shelly

Frances loves sticks. I don’t normally want her to play with sticks, onna counta YOU’LL PUT YOUR EYE OUT. Also she is missing a couple of teeth, and I don’t want her damaging the ones she has left or worse, swallowing a piece of stick and poking a hole in her GI tract. So many worries! Franny does not care, though, about any of that. She just wants to play with sticks. Imagine the expression on her face when she realized that there was a stick bush in her yard. It was epic, yo. And then she promptly commenced to destroying it. Like ya’ do.

The butterfly bush was in desperate need of pruning, so all’s well that ends well.