So before I even start editing, here's the plan...

[alexpgp]

I'm leaning toward My Year in Kazakhstan: 2003–2013 as the tentative title of my Kazakhstan work/travelogue.

As it has been my habit to post pretty much every day here, I can assume there to be at least 350 items to go through and edit.

I'm venturing to say that Sturgeon's Law doesn't quite apply here, since the novelty factor helps overcome what might otherwise be mundane activities. Americans go to the supermarket—people in Baikonur go to the market. Americans buy bacon and fry it before eating it; folks in Baikonur buy what is essentially suet, spice it, and—among other uses—consume small, uncooked pieces to chase down shots of vodka.

If I assume one page per item and have, as a goal, the addition of one page of solid material for each five pages of unpublishable crap, then if 250 items are crap, I'll still have a 150-page book.

But all this is theoretical humbug until I extract my posts and get them into an editable set of files.

Cheers...

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[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Years, maybe?

If you write this, you must include the story about the disastrous rocket-launch. :)

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Well, the "gimmick" here is that when you count up all the individual days I spent in Kazakhstan from May 2003 to August 2013, it come up to just over 365 days.

Perhaps a subtitle that makes clear my intermittent presence would help.

And while I'm on the subject, perhaps the title ought to more properly refer to Baikonur instead of Kazakhstan.

And oh, yes—that story will definitely be included. :)

Cheers...