04.06.09
Blogging in Panera…
Not quite as cliche as blogging in a coffee shop, I suppose, but one takes what one can get.
Several views on my new Etsy shop, but no purchases yet. No worries, as the place is so damned tiny anyway. Maybe one day it will explode into a full-blown e-conglomerate! But until then… WTB Customers pst.
In other news, WHY CAN’T PEOPLE READ?! I don’t know how many problems and issues and “wah, I can’t get your website to work, it’s stupid, waaaah!” shit that I deal with every day would be solved if people could just read a fucking sentence! Here is a reenactment for your reading pleasure. Only slightly paraphrased.
Author: I attached everything it says but a bunch of the items are highlighted in red and it won’t let me build the PDF what’s going on?
Me: May I call your attention to the sentence immediately preceding the highlighted items which says, “Highlighted items are required. There will be an error message if you are missing any of these items.” Is there an error message?
Author: Um… no.
Me: Did you try to build the PDF?
Authors: Um… yes… Yes of course I did… *frantic sounds of typing* Oh, look it’s working now.
Me: Imagine that.
Oh the glamorous life in publishing… It’s so foolish of me to think that the people with MDs and PhDs and MPHs and OMGWTFBBQs could read or write a complete, grammatically correct English sentence.
11.20.07
Utopia
Have you ever found a place that seemed inviolate? A place that was a true Idiot-Free zone? Were you foolish enough to think it would stay that way forever?
I was.
I’m telling you… Ion. Cannon.
It wouldn’t be so bad except that the place was the only spot on The Internets that I’d found that was free of the usual morons and f*ckwads. And now, that perfect utopia I had the joy of experiencing for the past couple months has been contaminated by vast quantities of stupid.
Dammit.
11.19.07
NaNo Update
So I’m obscenely behind in my NaNo word count, but that’s more or less what I expected. I wrote just over 7k this past weekend though, so that added to the word count significantly. Still, I’m having fun and so long as I keep writing, that’s really what’s important.
On a side note, there’s a newcomer to one of the sites I frequent… she’s been a member for 4 days and I already wish I had an ion cannon to blast her into a black hole. She is the most obnoxious single individual that I have encountered online in a long time. And if you knew the kind of people I’ve dealt with in the recent past, you would know that is saying something!
But that’s neither here nor there really… >_>
My focus now is that my novel continues coming along. 15,000+ words of complete and total crap… It doesn’t get better than this.
