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Three-day weekends! And other fun things.
Three-day weekend due to the holiday. I am on-call but, as I'm not likely to get called, it works. Next week I'm on the daytime phone which means I'll finally have a weekend without a work phone next weekend. :)
The news-update for Ephemera is finally in the review-and-rewrite stage. Took me entirely too long to get it there, but now that it is I can start in on some code items I have sitting around, among other things.
I've got too much vacation accumulated again so I applied for three separate blocks of 2-3 days each. September, October, and then (because I'll be a bit high on accumulated vacation before the big already-planned block in August) I tried for one in July. No such luck, my boss is on vacation almost the whole month. But that meant he let me have three days in mid-June. I hadn't dared hope for mid-June since it is sorta short notice. :)
Went to the library to return A Stir of Bones and pick up The Buried Pyramid. Sat there and wrote for a while - back behind the non-fiction and magazines, there are a bunch of sitting areas. I knew about the desks and all, but I didn't know that in the corner behind magazines there was a little area with very low tables, more like a sitting room, and even a rocking chair (albeit a rather uncomfortable looking one). The roof there has these opaque-but-translucent off-white tiles that let in the daylight, tinted very faintly yellow (doesn't look yellow but gives an odd cast to whatever you're reading, all the same). So I sat a while and wrote, and listened to the rain.
Then did grocery shopping for some frozens, and stopped over at Rite Aid as I'd noticed my metallic gel pens, of which I'm deeply fond, were nearly out of ink. :P Meant to pick up just another pack, but for $5 more I could get a box of 30 pens instead of 4. I'd comment on their likely having less ink, but the ones I got before (and loved) were a bit short in the ink department, too. :P So, we'll see. Also got a couple glitter ones (which were on sale) and a magnetic caddy to stick to the fridge, as the solution of putting a magent on the pad of paper with the shopping list and the pen, while cheap, was really not very effective. (This was also on sale, or I might not have, but as it is I'm pleased.)
And Scott got us the collector's edition of Pirates of the Caribbean. :)
The news-update for Ephemera is finally in the review-and-rewrite stage. Took me entirely too long to get it there, but now that it is I can start in on some code items I have sitting around, among other things.
I've got too much vacation accumulated again so I applied for three separate blocks of 2-3 days each. September, October, and then (because I'll be a bit high on accumulated vacation before the big already-planned block in August) I tried for one in July. No such luck, my boss is on vacation almost the whole month. But that meant he let me have three days in mid-June. I hadn't dared hope for mid-June since it is sorta short notice. :)
Went to the library to return A Stir of Bones and pick up The Buried Pyramid. Sat there and wrote for a while - back behind the non-fiction and magazines, there are a bunch of sitting areas. I knew about the desks and all, but I didn't know that in the corner behind magazines there was a little area with very low tables, more like a sitting room, and even a rocking chair (albeit a rather uncomfortable looking one). The roof there has these opaque-but-translucent off-white tiles that let in the daylight, tinted very faintly yellow (doesn't look yellow but gives an odd cast to whatever you're reading, all the same). So I sat a while and wrote, and listened to the rain.
Then did grocery shopping for some frozens, and stopped over at Rite Aid as I'd noticed my metallic gel pens, of which I'm deeply fond, were nearly out of ink. :P Meant to pick up just another pack, but for $5 more I could get a box of 30 pens instead of 4. I'd comment on their likely having less ink, but the ones I got before (and loved) were a bit short in the ink department, too. :P So, we'll see. Also got a couple glitter ones (which were on sale) and a magnetic caddy to stick to the fridge, as the solution of putting a magent on the pad of paper with the shopping list and the pen, while cheap, was really not very effective. (This was also on sale, or I might not have, but as it is I'm pleased.)
And Scott got us the collector's edition of Pirates of the Caribbean. :)