Not all of my goof-offs are useless.

I have offered the copyright of my book Letters to Icelanders: Exploring the Northern Soul, to the Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto (ICCT) to publish and sell as a fund-raiser. I checked in advance and the Board approved. I never thought it would cost them so much work. They didn’t either and they delayed a bit, maybe too long. After all, they had other things to do.

My files are in the archives of the University of Manitoba, and I looked up my contracts to get my rights back to give away. The original contract was there but not my rights of reversion (much later, after the book was out of print). No hurry. Until now. We had to trace the history of my book back through three publishers. We found the reversion but the ICCT needs it in writing. So I had to write a letter stating my intention to give ICCDT the right to publish and to receive the royalties

Tricky—for me. I can write blogs (sometimes) but I’m not used to writing business letters.

That was my important letter.

You see, every day brings a different problem and project that must be dealt with. It’s late morning the next day and I just had my hair cut. Enough.

Try again tomorrow. Yoyu know what we say about tomorrow.