print this bitch!

Run spell check 900 times, fix the tyops that people pointed out that spellcheck woulldn’t catch, fix the lead/led issues, looks up the words spellcheck doesn’t recognize, finish the formatting, get the good paper. Name, address, phone number, email, and wordcount on the front page. Title, byline, am I missing anything. No? No. Time to PRINT THIS BITCH OUT. (89 pages in: of course I forgot something. I forgot to make sure the header font was consistent with the body font. Dammit, dammit, dammit. But I’m not throwing out a…

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childhood vaccine

I just came across this headline: “FDA approves childhood vaccine” I had no *idea* you could vaccinate against childhood. (The actual story is here; it’s actually a new combination vaccination that will let kids only have 3 shots instead of 9. But damn, that’s really not what the headline suggests.)

fwsh.

Fwsh. I want to be writing, not working. I am, unsurprisingly, wanting to work on the next Walker Papers book. :) However, much as I want to futz around with that, I have to do real work, as I have a code freeze at the end of the day. My exceedingly cool coworkers got me a $100 gift certificate to Home Depot as a housewarming gift. I told them I’d make a note, “Supplied by CHI”, on the shelves it bought. :) I wish I would stop hacking. I’ve got…

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