I think everyone from the old posting boards and TT can confirm that I almost never type "the" correctly.

This may also be the time for me to tell you, once again, about my most hated word-- ministrations. The taut/taunt thing reminded me!

When I was in college, the school accepted one woman for every three men, a practice referred to as the "sex ratio." The practice was under heated attack, so we wrote about it frequently in the newspaper. It required constant vigilance to not print stories about people protesting the sex ration.

Words I hate to type but have to all the time: Acknowledgement. Satellite.

In other super exciting news, a new beer (and cider) store opened a few blocks away (in the other direction than most stuff is), and is having food trucks come every night. I'm hoping it's successful (there's many houses, but not much foot traffic there?) because they sound delicious. And on Thursday? There's a LATKE SANDWICH TRUCK. It sounds delicious.

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Well, my SIL got the boys and is attempting to get home. It took her 4.5 hours.

It's 6 miles away.

Not sure if she'll be able to get up the hill to the house, but if they make it into the subdivision, it is not far.

My brother is still stuck downtown, and won't even try until the interstates aren't parking lots.

There are very few published books out there without a typo somewhere.

Gospel truth. (Annoying, but truth). But there are Seanan-level typos (pretty much the first I can remember seeing, [not counting the ebook]), versus, say, any of the Harlequin imprints (so many typos and wrong words I was convinced the author thought she would actually get $.50 per $.50 word - whether she used it correctly or not).

Though I don't remember having particular problems with those of your books I've read, Amy. I still haven't read my copy of Cold Kiss. Since there's nothing you can do about them, I assume you'd rather not hear about any "taunt"s, "longue"s, or "saftey"s that I run across? ;)

It required constant vigilance to not print stories about people protesting the sex ration.

Bwahahaha!

That same system hit here around noon and it's a mess. They planned to let out metro area schools early, but they didn't do it early enough, so we've got kids in school buses.

Grant me patience to deal with people who keep "checking in" for updates on things. I know I've been that person in the past, but that's not helping me with the urge to set things on fire.

Yeah, I can't fix the typos, and there's no chance of Cold Kiss going back to press, so ignorance is definitely bliss. Thanks, though!

I'm reading Amor Towles's Rules of Civility now, a galley I picked up at BEA two (three?) years ago and hadn't gotten around to. Galleys are very specifically uncorrected proofs, so typos are to be expected, but the amount of typos that are misspellings and grammar mistakes is actually a little weird. I sort of expect better, even in manuscript form, from an author who went to Yale and Stanford.

That said, it's a great read.

Schools let out before noon around here today, due to the weather forecast. 4:20, and still no snow. I came home at noon and have been working from the sofa ever since, because the worst of the snow was originally going to hit during the evening commute. And while many people around here are fine, there's always that one person who swerves across three lanes of traffic because a snowflake hit his or her windshield, leading to traffic snarls going back for miles. I just didn't want to deal. Plus, it was an excuse to come home at lunch and work from my sofa.