What’s Up?
It’s release day for Wolf at the Door by TA Moore (s’me! if you signed up for this newsletter without realizing that, it must have been a confusing time!). It is the last book in the Wolf Winter trilogy, which has left me both excited and a little…weirded out! Dog Days was my first ever book with DSP, so it feels like a big thing to finish the trilogy.
Like…maybe I’m sorta a real writer?
I think I wrote a good book. :D
Pupdate of the Week
So, let’s be honest. My initial plans that Jax sleep downstairs/at the foot of the bed went by the wayside MONTHS ago. Now it’s gotten to the point where he thinks I should sleep on a cushion on the floor.
Maybe he is just annoyed at me over the big, long walk I took him on last night.
Oh, and tomorrow is his second Advanced Intermediate Puppy Training. He’s been doing OK! Very easily distracted, but he learns well!
I debated taking him in his Very Cool Pupper Halloween Costume, but maybe the other dogs would pick on him.
Awww, I would have been quite excited! Newtownards had a Woolworths in Conway Square and it was my go-to stop as a kid! Alas, it is not to be.
Recommendation of the Week
ME!
Oh come on, it’s release day. I get to toot my own horn.
Oh man, I love the ZomBee :D
Deal of the Week
Must Read of the Week
This is fascinating.
I am not personally fond of ice cream truck music. Oh sure, it’s the sound of summer when you’re a little kid. The promise of a runny 99 cone dunked in chocolate sprinkles. As an adult you hear the creepy, broken groan of a battered music box as the grimy truck rolls onto your street, and then your neighbor’s kid gets in to make out with the spotty teen vendor.
So.
Still. This is cool!
The company that has a monopoly on ice cream truck music
How a small, family-owned electronics company came to control 97% of the ice cream truck music market.
In 1973, an electrical engineer named Bob Nichols was watching the film The Sting when a song on the soundtrack — Scott Joplin’s 1902 ragtime hit, “The Entertainer” — caught his ear.
The right clip of that song, Bob realized, would make for an irresistible ice cream truck jingle.
He could imagine trucks gliding through the American suburbs, the tinkling notes summoning children to buy snow cones, sundaes, and bomb pops.
Oh wow! How cool are these Halloween nails?