Tuesday morning: Ebd of a very long weekend . . .

1. I guess when you go to an event in your local shire, you don't get a post-event rush of folks adding you as an LJ friend. ;)

2. I have not talked much about Northern Region War Camp except to say it was OMGWTFBBQ tremendous. Well-done, folks! I hope to post some stories, maybe tonight.

3. I am overwhlemed at the response to the photos. That's a part of the SCA that I really enjoy. I get a huge kick when I see people using them as icons, or re-posting them or, specially, when I go to someone's house, and there's one of my photos on the refrigerator or in a frame.

4. I was, whoever, overwhelmed by the weekend. I tried very hard to stay hydrated, but it didn't work. I either slept or hung out all fay Sunday, and I took a sick day yesterday, because I still felt crappy. (It didn't help that the battery I used for my CPAP machine didn't give me a full night's charge either night. I slept a good bit yesterday, too, and I was not really coherent enough to accomplish much else. I went to bed fairly early, too. So I was up before 6 this morning, and I got the dishes done and a couple of other things accomplished.

5. Now I shower and get dressed nicely and drive to Johnsburg for the Social Studies interview. I looked over the U.S. History and Global Studies Regents exams and, yeah, I can teach them. ;) Then it's off to work to catch up and move forward.

6. Here's hoping the Red Sox are back on the right track, though 1-0 doesn't necessarily do a lot for my faith.

7. Two new books coming in the next couple of days -- E.E. Knight's "Fall With Honor," and "Victory of Eagles." Yay!

Tuesday evening: Long, hot day and evening . . .

1. I felt as though the interview went well. It's hard to tell with these things. I asked later what they were looking for, and I seemed to fit the bill. I hope they felt that way. As I said,  today was with the three Social Studies folks, including the guy who is retiring, and the principal. The principal said they will decide on second interviews by Friday and said she would call either way. The second interview will be her and the superientendent. I think I offer a lot, but I am not the one I need to convince.

2. I thought this was fascinating:

Glens Falls Post-Star

A Virginia man upset about not winning a scratch-off lottery game used that state’s Freedom of Information Law to find out that the top prizes in the game he was playing had already been awarded before he bought his tickets.

According to a report on CNN.com, college professor Scott Hoover bought a $5 scratch-off ticket in the state’s “Beginner’s Luck” game, which carried a top prize of $75,000. Hoover, a professor of business statistics at a local college, became curious about his odds of winning. So he began tracking the data the Lottery posted on its Internet site about how many prizes were given out and realized “the numbers posted online violated basic laws of statistics,” according to the Roanoke Times Web site.

Working with a local law firm, Hoover filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the Virginia Lottery and learned that three days before he bought his tickets, all of the grand prizes had been given out for that particular batch. He  was able to obtain records that showed the Virginia State Lottery actually sold $85 million in tickets for which no top prize was available. Hoover also alleges that the state does the same thing in all its scratch games.

Here in New York, the state Lottery Division pulls the entire batch of scratch-off tickets from the market once the top prizes for that particular game have been claimed, according to lottery spokesman John Charlson. So there’s no chance that what happened in Virginia could happen here. If a game is popular, the Lottery Division may decide to reissue the game with new top prizes available, he said.

3. Got both the new E.E. Knight and  Naomi Novik books today. I think I am just shy of 70 pages into the Knight book.

4. Oh yeah, Friday night "date" night with alethea_eastrid, jenphalian and lbitw. The plan is Hellboy II, the Adirondack Brew Pub and chilling out.

5. I was really looking forward to this one:

From The New West

Best-selling Boulder author Jon Krakauer has withdrawn the manuscript for Hero, his book about Pat Tillman, according to Publishers Weekly (Via Slushpile.Net). Rachel Deahl writes that Doubleday had scheduled the book for an October release with a first printing of half a million copies.  Deahl reports:

“Krakauer is apparently unhappy with the manuscript and is holding onto it indefinitely. David Drake at Doubleday confirmed that the decision was entirely the author’s and that, while the imprint is ‘disappointed,’ it supports its author. Speaking to the book’s future, Drake said the situation is ‘a little bit wait and see’ and that if the book does get rescheduled it likely wouldn’t come out until at least 2009.”

Although Krakauer fans expecting a juicy fall read might be disappointed, I bet that this delay can only be a good thing for the eventual book.