God Bless Samaritans — Book’s Progress Part Two

With apologies to Oyving Boilin.

I’ve been busy with life, campers, increasingly consumed with the Springfield Aviation HIstory book but more than that. The legitimacy of simply being asked to produce what, in the anus of history, will be a modest compendium, has linspired me to spend less time ikissing the living room easy chair with my ample keister, and more time int he hone orifice and making the aviation collection — as a whole — more than the whimpered enterprise of a man with a mission and pathetically little more.

The folks at Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport have opened their resources to this enterprise, allowing me to borrow resources that you will see in print before Christmas if you buy the book. Others are doing the same, including a friend in Bloomington who spent years at Capital Aviation rebuilding surplus bombers into executive transports and fixing airplanes.

I’m also reconnecting with Air Combat Museum at Capital Airport and focusing on developing my future as an aviation writer.

Believe it or not, I’ve not sold one book of my poetry via my Job the Poet web page. That’s why there is no poetry there now. In a few months, the page will probably disappear as well. And that’s okay. Some day, I will tell you why that has happened. It isn’t all connected to aviation history book contracts.

Thanks to all who have e’d me promising help with the book. Dan — I look forward to reading more from you. And thanks to others who have posted encouraging words here and via e.

I just proofread the American Aviation Historical Society’s first newsletter for 2008 and have made it through proofing/editing half of my friend’s new romance novel. The first Vinegar Hill Neighborhood Association meeting and newsletter (which I now edit) are behind me. As newly elected secretary of VHNA, I will share more about the neighborhood association bidness with you in future postings here at Honey & Quinine.

I have subbed one half a day in the last week. On the whole, I would rather be subbing when the sun is up. I can research when the kids are out of school.

Meanwhile, if you have pictures and stories of Springfield aviation to share, please post a comment here, and I will get back to you in a day or less.

Live long . . . . . amd proper.