exhausted from moving - it's been a long slog, with box after box coming from storage over to our new house in the center of galesburg - this particular move, from storage to town, is only about three miles, but we moved also from monmouth (about fifteen miles) and beyond that, from new mexico. so it's been a summer of moving, constantly picking up boxes of junk and getting them where they're going.

my relentless marketing isn't amounting to much, although i now have a readership that i never had before. in other words, i slogged away writing for ten years, just dropping stuff in the amazon sea, and now, when i write something, people read it. sure, most of those people are authors, my friends, who are engaged in read-trading for mutual benefit. but on one level, it doesn't matter. i write, they read, i have an audience. i have ratings, too. i'm working on getting the paperback ratings out of the clouds now.

galesburg is a wonderful town, very illinois and a little rough at the edges. it has trains going through it in all directions, and they disrupt you almost wherever you go, unless you stay on the very big streets which apparently got bridges a few years back; in other words, it used to be worse. you get stopped a lot. you sometimes watch a precession of flat cars go by, with graffiti (sp?) on the flat part, various tags from around the world. these trains could be going anywhere; some are long. but i like that - i'm no longer in a hurry.

the illinois steamy weather also is a little excessive. today i might have gotten heat stroke; in any case, i had to stop and rest, drink stuff, get in out of the heat. i have one more load; naturally it has a monster in it, but then i'll be done bringing it here. all i'll have to do is distribute it within the house.

my marketing has slipped, maybe because it was somewhat without results anyway. time to get back, at least to the blogs, and recover what i had going. i'm going to make galeburg blogs - hardknox by name, you heard it first here. look for it. it'll have lots of train pictures.