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So close to success
May. 19th, 2011 10:42 pmI've been edging on that 30 messages in the inbox mark for the last three days. I just jumped back up to 35, and while I may be able to narrow it down by one more tonight, I don't think I'll get any closer to success between now and tomorrow morning.
The flow of work just keeps coming to me, and I'm grateful, if busy. This doesn't mean I haven't found any ways to procrastinate just a tad. The evil Arielle Kesweder (you know, one of my beta-readers? usually saintly? yeah, now evil) introduced me to Angry Birds for Chrome. I'd thought I didn't have the technology to experience the Angry Birds for myself, and was doomed to pop culture references that went over my head, but no, she had to show me the error of my ways. Luckily, while it's clever, it's not quite as addictive as, say, Plants vs. Zombies, so I think I'm safe.
I also spent some time personalizing my new nook today -- the old one has a cracked case, and since I bought the nifty warranty, I had a shiny new nook arrive in yesterday's mail. After adding a David Weber collection to the nook, I had to recreate my shelves and get organized. (For the record: Baen Books is awesomely ahead of the curve when it comes to using e-books as promotion -- they've been including CDs of previous books in Weber's Honor Harrington series in the back of the newest hardcovers for the last several books. Baen also launched a free library of backlist titles, which is amazing, and which I've utilized previously. I don't know how this impacts their bottom line, but as readers who have purchased several of the hard-copy versions of the series, we're grateful to have the e-versions as well, as some of the mass markets have dying bindings.)
Tomorrow is check in day for Kaz's Spring into Summer 50K writing challenge, and yet again, I've nothing to report. Summer camp was so good to me last year that I really want to accomplish something with the new SIS project. But tomorrow is also the day when I'm going in to talk to local elementary school students about writing and Branford history, and that seems like the more important priority for the day.
The flow of work just keeps coming to me, and I'm grateful, if busy. This doesn't mean I haven't found any ways to procrastinate just a tad. The evil Arielle Kesweder (you know, one of my beta-readers? usually saintly? yeah, now evil) introduced me to Angry Birds for Chrome. I'd thought I didn't have the technology to experience the Angry Birds for myself, and was doomed to pop culture references that went over my head, but no, she had to show me the error of my ways. Luckily, while it's clever, it's not quite as addictive as, say, Plants vs. Zombies, so I think I'm safe.
I also spent some time personalizing my new nook today -- the old one has a cracked case, and since I bought the nifty warranty, I had a shiny new nook arrive in yesterday's mail. After adding a David Weber collection to the nook, I had to recreate my shelves and get organized. (For the record: Baen Books is awesomely ahead of the curve when it comes to using e-books as promotion -- they've been including CDs of previous books in Weber's Honor Harrington series in the back of the newest hardcovers for the last several books. Baen also launched a free library of backlist titles, which is amazing, and which I've utilized previously. I don't know how this impacts their bottom line, but as readers who have purchased several of the hard-copy versions of the series, we're grateful to have the e-versions as well, as some of the mass markets have dying bindings.)
Tomorrow is check in day for Kaz's Spring into Summer 50K writing challenge, and yet again, I've nothing to report. Summer camp was so good to me last year that I really want to accomplish something with the new SIS project. But tomorrow is also the day when I'm going in to talk to local elementary school students about writing and Branford history, and that seems like the more important priority for the day.
