Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 14:27:37 -0400 From: Logical Language Group Message-Id: <199607261827.OAA26938@access1.digex.net> To: cowan@ccil.org Subject: progress report X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 4025 X-From-Space-Date: Mon Jul 29 12:46:50 1996 X-From-Space-Address: - also to remind you that you are accumulating mail in my account -currently 1.3Meg of compressed and another 600K of uncompressed mail. I am finishing chap 6. today, which may not sound like I have gotten far, but this week has seen me greatly speed up, now that I am reading stuff that is about sentences rather than sounds or words. I seem to be averaging around 4-5 hrs to finish one chapter if the time is undivided, so there is still a rasonable chance that I will be done before LogFest. My comments are extensive, and I would say most thing are substantive rather than style. Yet I have found only a couple of things that are "technical issues" that we may disagree on. There are a fair number of glitches still that people have missed in previous passes, so I think I do need to finish the review before we go to press (whcih of course means that I need to FINISH it, I know %^). At this point I am uncertain whether to ship you off the comments that I have, presuming that you will be doing something substantive with them before LogFest (and presuming that you will be able to readd and understand them - the markup is a bit chaotic and cluttered, even if you discount that I am not all that neat a writer when I am scribbling in bed and other places where I have been able to grab some time for reading.) The alternative seems to me that I save stuff up till you get here, and we go through things then together, and then try to get a final draft done if/when we come up at Labor Day (which offfers the advantage that Chassell can also meet with us then, and we will know whether LogFest-based decisions will have any impact. The negative of shipping things off to you is that I refer back to my own npotes and comments a fair amount (not to mention prior chapters of text), and hence would have to at minimum get a good copy before sending them, and I might add some comments on early chapters after later reading (I added one comment on Chap 5 after reading Chap 6). Since by the time I read your response (or hear from you - I'll be at a cub scout camp on St/Sun), and get things mailed up there (please confirm the address you want me to send to if you want me to do so), you'll have only a week or so to do something with them, I am not sure it buys us much. How is Gail doing, footwise? If she is still considering coming, I will mention that the Smithsonian is hgaving their 150th birthday party on the Mall LogFest weekend, and will have special tents setup with exhoibits. But of course that may be the worst thing for Gail, since one cannot do the Mall without a LOT of walking. Regarding labor Day: If we are still invited, we are considering leaving the week before, stopping for a few days with family in Philly, and maybe also for a couple days in NYC, staying in some cheap suburban motel, and coming into the city by train (I know driving into NYC is for fools only). I need to find out something about the trains in from NJ (or I guess I could call T. Peter Park about staying out on Long Island, but I presume accomodations there would be more expensive. When I have done this previously, I stayed out in Parsippany and/or Dover, and drove in close, like to Newark, and caught a train just across the river. Any and all ideas are welcome - figure we would get there Wed or Thurs, and then drive up to your country place around the same time you do so on Friday. Then on Monday, I will have to marathon drive home to get the kids home in time for school - probably let them sleep in the car and not try to get home before dawn, thus allowing for a nap and/or stretch enroute. As a result, we would have nearly the whole weekend, leaving perhaps midday Monday (NOra would take Tuesday off since shge seldom sleeps in the car when I am driving). I can;t think of any other way to make things work. Nora has already taken the vacation time the week before, whether we come or not. Oh, Avgust's boirthday is the 31st. Well, let me get dine and back to Chapter 6. lojbab