Blast-Off Minus 6 Days

I, Byron Barnett, can’t understand why people think the dictionary is boring. It’s my favorite book.

The little section underneath every word that tells you where the word came from (its “etymology”) is like a very short detective story that solves the mystery of what a word’s origin was way back in time.

My math teacher told me last year that I sounded like I swallowed a dictionary. I think he thought he was insulting me, but I just thanked him for being so commendatory and then I laughed all the way to the cafeteria.

Ha-HAH!

José Ignacio says I frequently get words wrong, but I enjoy my mistakes. It’s quite charming of me.

Also I love my space-encyclopedia. It’s probably my second-favorite book.

An encyclopedia can either be one big book or a whole shelf of books that give you information on either a whole lot of topics or one topic in particular.

For instance, my space-encyclopedia is one big book, 1224 pages long, that’s all about space.

But my brother has the Encyclopedia Brittanica in his room that’s 29 books long and has 40,000 articles in it. It talks about everything there is in existence.

I’m thinking of writing my own encyclopedia.

Mine would be called “The Encyclopedia Barnettica.” It would be all about topics that I find interesting. 

I’m not sure if I would write it all myself or if I’d hire other experts to work under me.

Depends on how long I make it. If it’s 1000 pages or less I might write it myself.

If it’s between 1000 and 5000 pages I’ll probably hire people.

I’m not sure yet how much I’ll charge people to buy it. If I’m already the CEO of Galactic Snacking Solutions by then and getting a salary of 50,000 credits a year or more, I might give the Encyclopedia away for free.

I can be quite philanthropic.

More soon,
Boon

P.S. Here’s my idea for what the cover should look like. (I made this myself, I didn’t need Taji’s help.)