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Well, it’s been an interesting 4 1/2 days, during which a lot of email has gone unanswered, not to mention comments on various venues. You might think I had used the time saved to d0 useful things like reorganize, straighten up, clean…but you know me better than that. I kept tinkering with Crown of Renewal. After all, I couldn’t email it to Editor or Agent…so I began the nose-to-the-floor crawl for clues.
Nit-picking. Again. Proving once again that no matter how many times you go through a manuscript, there is always something to fix, improve, re-phrase. On Saturday (day 3) I drove into the city to my web-guru’s house and begged the use of her computer to email that version of Crown to my agent, with a note to send it on to Editor if I hadn’t regained internet access by Sunday night. Which I did, but after midnight his time. So the finicky changing of words and phrases between about 1 pm on Saturday and now will need to be sent tomorrow morning, if we have a connection then.
Also did some knitting. The second pair of “short socks” is onto the heel flap of both. Also did some bike riding in very hot temperatures. Not ideal, but the mileage continues to grow as the physical therapy has reduced the pain.
I have no reason to over-trust our ISP and though there are four little lights on our DSL modem (as there should be) now, the four cheerful estimates of time-until-repair that were missed have me a bit twitchy. I have hundreds of emails to comb through for important business stuff, so another actual post about the book will be delayed even more. Apologies.
Comment by GinnyW — August 5, 2013 @ 11:44 am
We are all glad to have you back on line, and hope the ISP earns its P by actually providing reliable service.
I find that interuptions in normal services (like internet or phone) do NOT inspire me to do the things that don’t require that service. Instead, they produce an incredible compulsion to fix it, and so an incredible disruption as I spend hours talking to customer service people who have no technical competence at all. This would be a good subject for therapy (among others).
Your nitpicking sounds productive – as does the bike riding. I hope the hundreds of emails are worth reading, and God bless you all.
Comment by GinnyW — August 5, 2013 @ 11:46 am
I forgot to say that I hope to hear more about Crown, whenever you are ready to post about it.
Comment by Richard — August 5, 2013 @ 12:38 pm
Elizabeth,
remembering that you lost service a couple of summers ago, I’m becoming seriously convinced that your ISP is vulnerable to collapsing from heat exhaustion.
Comment by Catmadknitter — August 5, 2013 @ 4:53 pm
Don’t worry about it.
Mom’s computer has been off the net for 6 months. Last week she combed 1400 emails. We feel your pain.
Comment by Daniel Glover — August 5, 2013 @ 5:13 pm
1400 in six months? I had 1500 in three weeks when I took my first long vacation in the job I’m currently in–just reached 20 yrs–so that was 19 years ago.
Just got back from a week away–took an hour to comb through the throw away ones. Still haven’t read the ones that need attention, too many emergencies today, and tomorrow morning is filled with a training session. I feel for you Elizabeth. Take your time, we’ll still be waiting.
Comment by KarenH — August 6, 2013 @ 5:07 pm
Elizabeth: I will keep my fingers cross that it stays up. Knock on wood. Throw a bit of salt over my shoulder.