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Weekend Update Is Cold Again
Feb. 11th, 2018 12:25 pmAfter a good few days of strangely warm weather -- hitting the upper 60s and lower 70s and crystal clear -- it's much cooler today with a high of 59. This is the time of year where it'll fluctuate wildly like that before warming up and staying that way. Bay Area weather is weird, yo.
The Day Job has been kind of crazy the last few days of last week, mostly due to irritating interruptions. I don't mind busy. I get a lot done when I'm busy, and I'm good at that. But I can't stand it when my flow is interrupted by what I call OMFG issues. They're not necessarily urgent or critical issues (to use my job's parlance), but are usually 'the client is going batshit, please drop everything and fix this so we can shut them up' issues. Which I usually respond to with "well, I've got other urgent and critical issues I'm currently working on right now, so I'll get to them when I get to them." I work on a first-in/first-out basis. Interrupting me to cut in line only serves to piss me off.
ANYWAY. Friday ended with me getting a PC refresh with my work laptop. I usually get these every few years or so, as my Day Job is smart (and not cheapass) enough to realize we need decent computers do do our job. This one was a bit surprising, as I'd gotten a refresh only a year ago. Apparently this time it was team-wide, as my managers (and their managers) had talked upper management into getting faster PCs as our current ones just weren't cutting it. [Side note: this did not keep bank reps from pinging me about things even when my IM explicitly stated 'PC REFRESH IN PROGRESS - DO NOT DISTURB.' Le sigh.] By that afternoon I was exhausted and annoyed so I basically floated for that last hour before logging off.
BUT! I still got my writing done! Day three of Apartment Complex writing Take Two worked out well, and I was able to create a new scene that was solid and links the two original scenes I had. I'm glad I called it, because this restart is already working so much better. There's still a few weak spots in the plot that I need to elaborate on, but it's nothing too worrying. Like I'd said on Twitter earlier today, I'm excited about the challenge that I'm essentially writing a pastoral novel and thus trying not to write Michael Bay level action scenes. It's almost a Zen practice, come to think of it...it forces me to focus on a deliberate pace and rethink what can be usable for conflict and action, and I really like that.
Anyhoo...it's Sunday afternoon and we're both relaxing by watching a dog show on TV before I head up back to work on some of my weekend 'fiddly bits' writing errands. Not a bad weekend at all. :)
The Day Job has been kind of crazy the last few days of last week, mostly due to irritating interruptions. I don't mind busy. I get a lot done when I'm busy, and I'm good at that. But I can't stand it when my flow is interrupted by what I call OMFG issues. They're not necessarily urgent or critical issues (to use my job's parlance), but are usually 'the client is going batshit, please drop everything and fix this so we can shut them up' issues. Which I usually respond to with "well, I've got other urgent and critical issues I'm currently working on right now, so I'll get to them when I get to them." I work on a first-in/first-out basis. Interrupting me to cut in line only serves to piss me off.
ANYWAY. Friday ended with me getting a PC refresh with my work laptop. I usually get these every few years or so, as my Day Job is smart (and not cheapass) enough to realize we need decent computers do do our job. This one was a bit surprising, as I'd gotten a refresh only a year ago. Apparently this time it was team-wide, as my managers (and their managers) had talked upper management into getting faster PCs as our current ones just weren't cutting it. [Side note: this did not keep bank reps from pinging me about things even when my IM explicitly stated 'PC REFRESH IN PROGRESS - DO NOT DISTURB.' Le sigh.] By that afternoon I was exhausted and annoyed so I basically floated for that last hour before logging off.
BUT! I still got my writing done! Day three of Apartment Complex writing Take Two worked out well, and I was able to create a new scene that was solid and links the two original scenes I had. I'm glad I called it, because this restart is already working so much better. There's still a few weak spots in the plot that I need to elaborate on, but it's nothing too worrying. Like I'd said on Twitter earlier today, I'm excited about the challenge that I'm essentially writing a pastoral novel and thus trying not to write Michael Bay level action scenes. It's almost a Zen practice, come to think of it...it forces me to focus on a deliberate pace and rethink what can be usable for conflict and action, and I really like that.
Anyhoo...it's Sunday afternoon and we're both relaxing by watching a dog show on TV before I head up back to work on some of my weekend 'fiddly bits' writing errands. Not a bad weekend at all. :)
