While Andy’s suffering at -14º I’ll be backing up my language notes in my old diary over the next few days or so. LM’s gotten greedy and their courses are no longer free. Therefore, I assume the free ones will disappear soon enough.

They’ve either got a glitch on their end or I’ve gotten that computer savvy that I was able to hack their old plus courses because, to the best of my knowledge, the PDF and audio files were never free. Then again, there was nothing to “hack.” I simply pressed ‘download’ and it worked this time. I’m glad I swiped what I wanted before they realized these files have been a free-for-all.

I’m considering dropping Esperanto since the sound files on that aren’t so great, it’s not a major language, and I’m studying enough languages as it is. I may even drop the Portuguese and just stick with my Spanish, Italian and German.

The publishers did get my manuscript submission after all, and sent a message saying to give them an extra two months since it’s #14 in the queue. Whatever. I mean, I know they’re going to reject it. I just want to know what they like about it and what they think needs work.

Although Tom said it didn’t get warm enough to open windows today (I slept all day), it has been a lot nicer lately. It’s still cold at night, but where it was wetter than usual in December, it’s been dryer than usual this month, allowing the sun to shine through and warm the place up in the afternoon. Even the rat’s been wondering why there’s no condensation to lick off the slider.