Glad that’s over! Let’s golf!
I don’t know what type of virus/bacteria it was, but I’m just coming off one of the sickest six-day stretches of my life. The doc assures me it was not any type of flu, and it closely resembled a two-week illness my oldest son, Jake, finished up before I came down with it. It involved lots of chest congestion, nausea, and mind-warping sinus headaches. I went on antibiotics by the third day, and as late as Saturday I thought I might be developing pneumonia.
But Sunday I made a big turnaround, and Monday, after 8 hours of sleep tonight, I’ll be recovered enough to go to the high school District Golf Tournament in which my middle son, Robby, is competing for Gold Beach High School. I was to be an official “marker” but don’t have energy enough to do that. I’ll ride around in a cart for a couple of hours and watch.
Annie has been slugging away on deadline, even while enjoying the reunion with her Marine Corps husband, Erik, who recently returned from Iraq. Magazine deadline shows no mercy to the main editor, even if she’s in love and been deprived of her husband for eight months. But I’m now able to jump in and help.
While sick, I had a chance to do a lot of research on swine flu and what it may hold in store for the fall, so I’m also in position to help John Silveira with his swine flu article. That was a kick — reading about a potentially killer flu while gasping for air with a blinding sinus headache. It was easy to empathize with the direst scenarios.
May 12th, 2009 at 1:09 am
Dear Mr. Duffy.
So sorry to hear that you were really
sick. It mush have been bad.
Question for you. This time last year
you promised to do a four part series
on the house that Eric built. How is
his house comming alone and are you
going to finish the series or did I miss
something,
Well take care and get over what ever
you had.
Debby
May 12th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
We have had some of the parts and will have the rest as Eric builds. He’s run short of cash for materials so we’ll just wait until he’s ready. I keep in touch with him and his mom, Dorothy Ainsworth, so this series will get done.
May 16th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Dave,
Any word on where the digital issue of the current issue is? My wife has been bugging me for it for days now and I can’t find it anywhere on the website.
Jay
May 20th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Jay:
Amazingly, you are the first person to ask me. The print readership and the online readership must be totally different people. We cancelled the digital issue, and I talk about the cancellation in the new issue, which just went to print. Instead we are going to do an online community section on the website, which will include a pdf version of a digital issue as an extra. It may take another month to get this part of the website up.
A digital issue the way other magazines are doing it just didn’t make sense after I gave it some thought. Technology is moving too fast to just put out a static digital issue. I thought of how technology took us from the horse and buggy to automobiles, and I realized back then they needed an interim stage to make the transition — such as putting “whip sockets” in the first autos so as to ease the transition for people used to a horse and buggy. We don’t need whip sockets (or a digital issue) today, but instead we need a full blown modern version of a magazine (or whatever we’re going to call it) to communicate self-reliance information.
This will be an interactive part of the website where readers can give and get feedback, post photos, videos, and other info, and do a lot of cool stuff that is not possible with just a digital issue.
We announced a digital issue too soon in the print issue, before we had a chance to really think-through what this modern technological age called for.
Dave