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So, a few things happened today that made it the perfect time to present my revised columns agreement to my superiors.

First of all, we recently lost one of our reporters. That leaves us with two. Our other two newspapers just lost two of their reporters- leaving our daily paper with one reporter, and the other weekly with, well, none.

So, additional writing by other people will be welcomed.

Additionally, the editor has been made publisher of our paper. The one reporter we have left has been made editor (she's more straight-laced, which may make it harder to write some of my innuendos in my columns, but that's the cart ahead of the horse.)

I revised my proposed agreement to read as the following:

9-14-12

All columns written by Timothy H. Kepple, either preceding or after this date, are provided to The Lander Journal (Riverton Ranger, Inc.) at no charge with First Print Publication Rights in Wyoming, as well as Electronic Archival Rights for the online PDF edition of the print edition in which the columns appeared. All other rights remain property of Timothy H. Kepple.

If a column is not printed within 30 days of submission, First Print Publication Rights revert to Timothy H. Kepple.

At the very last minute I added the Wyoming, figuring this gives me the opportunity to send these columns out to other papers in other states (such as my hometown, where the same editor is in charge of the paper as when I worked there in high school, a Very Long Time ago.)

I gave it to the now-publisher, Anne, and told her I had thought about what she said about my columns (it helps that one of Wyoming's congressmen stopped in for an interview and told the reporter how much he and his wife loved my columns!) I told her the money had never been an issue, the rights were the issue for me. I pointed out that the owner has NEVER reprinted anyone's columns, and we both agreed that with mine, he never would reprint them either. So, even though HE would never use them again- I might. And I'd like to have the chance to do so, but I had to have those rights. (I didn't bring up that I fully believe that I still have all those rights anyway.) She agreed with me totally, and practically drooled at the sight of the six completed columns that I spread out before her.

On the contract I had written up, I left a place for my signature, her signature, and the owner's signature. She said she would talk to him and see what he says, but for the first time, I feel like she's on my side.

Weekly Update

A whole lot of the same thing going on this week.

Still working hard to clear up the credit card mess at the hotel. You'd think that a duplicate batch being processed would be easy to sort, but no, it's not.

I got my grandfather's razor back! Let's take a look:

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My projects this weekend are to clean out my vehicle so I can finally put the back seats into position again, and to paint some of the trim on the house to make it lok nicer. Maybe the skirting too, if I get really ambitious. I'll try to take pictures of everything.

Toodles.

Weekly Update Part 2

I'm not sure what came over me today, but I'm not going to argue with the amount of energy and ambition I had. Got about half of my vehicle cleaned out- the most important part was getting the paperwork out of there that I've been carrying around for YEARS because there was no place to store it at the hotel. Finally, enough was enough, and I went through it, threw out what I could, bundled up cables and such I wanted to keep, cleaned up my cupboards at the hotel, and put three boxes into the storage space I've been able to claim in one of the hotel's closets. Now, there's just some miscellaneous junk in there that I need to sort through, and I'm done. I put my back seats up again! I would like it to be empty except for my emergency travel bin.

I finished around 6:30 Saturday morning, and headed straight from the hotel to the grocery store. Normally, I'd be dragging and zombie-like by then, but I was holding together pretty well. Took me another 45 minutes to get all my groceries, then home I went. I put the groceries away, fed Jinx, loaded the dishwasher, took out the trash, and was in bed by 8. Spent another 15 minutes doing my normal winding-down routine (reading the latest FMLs and Rage Comics on my iPod) then fell asleep.

And woke up at 12:30. And that was it for sleeping!


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Squirells are cute and fuzzy, but they're filthy creatures that can really damage a home and its contents if they find their way inside. I know this from experience.

The top five winners of the 72 Script Fest begin to be announced today, 9/16. I'm trying not to get my hopes up still, because I don't want to be disappointed, but yeah- I'm excited.