miles to Rivendell: 205 ytd miles swum: 24 ytd wordcount: 201,800
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about writing
So yesterday I downloaded Sonar, which is a pretty cool piece of manuscript tracking software. It’s very simple; it has who you sent what to and when, and keeps track of whether you got a response or not. It’s sort of for short stories, not manuscripts — there’s not really an option to say ‘Got a response, sent complete ms in’ and keep it all in one ticket, but that’s ok. It’s nifty, is the point. And now I’ve got this tidy little list of what’s been sent out to…
on doing enough
So yesterday I downloaded Sonar, which is a pretty cool piece of manuscript tracking software. It’s very simple; it has who you sent what to and when, and keeps track of whether you got a response or not. It’s sort of for short stories, not manuscripts — there’s not really an option to say ‘Got a response, sent complete ms in’ and keep it all in one ticket, but that’s ok. It’s nifty, is the point. And now I’ve got this tidy little list of what’s been sent out to…
fwimming!
Swimmed again today! 2000 yards. My shoulder hurts today, though. I’m going to have to make a chiro appointment and try to get this loosened up. The worst part about getting up and going swimming is that on the way home we pass about 7 espresso stands, and it makes me want to stop for a hot chocolate with mint in it! But that would sort of be defeating the point. I need to get SwimEar. My hears are all full of water. Sloosh sloosh.
incredibly frustrating, yet funny
Does it not seem obvious that if yesterday all the sites had a graphic in place, and today they do not, that this is not an HTML problem but is some kind of database problem? Particularly, let me clarify, as the banners are called dynamically, rather than being hard coded. It goes and says ‘this is a senior health page, that means (this banner) should be called’. QA keeps goddamned assigning problems like that back to HTML. In *extreme* frustration, I finally talked to my project manager about it: me:…