A Very Busy Week
Apr. 1st, 2013 12:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aIt has been a very busy week. Beyond the regular work-week, that is. I spent much of my "free" time working on finishing up the third Designers & Dragons book, focused on the '90s. It got heavy attention on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday night — then I did some marathon writing and editing Saturday night and finally finished it today. Whew! 132k words total.
And then there was one.
You'll likely have noticed that I left out Wednesday and Thursday from my worknights. On Wednesday that's because I was off watching The Coast of Utopia: Voyage with Kimberly.
Thursday's busyness was unfortunately less benign. That afternoon I went down to the co-lo mainly to swap some memory in one of our machines. Unfortunately I found that two others were experiencing problems. When I was moving around one whose power supply had died, I accidentally knocked out a third machine's power cord. And it's power supply died too. Aggh! So I was down at the co-lo from like 1.30 until 6, with problems just stacking up. Chris came and rescued me so that I could attend my Thursday night gaming session (since it was too late too cancel). Fortunately he'd also managed to turn up a spare power supply, which we swapped in after the gaming. It was still a loooong night.
Thursday was Kimberly's birthday, but we'd agreed that she was going to spend it with friends (a good thing, given my troubles of the day!), then she and I celebrated it on Saturday.
On Satuday afternoon we took some salads & wraps (and chocolate) up to Tilden Park and enjoyed some lunch and a little bit of a walk through forest trails to Lake Anza. Very nice. It was a bit gloomy when we got there, but it cleared up nicely (and didn't start raining until the evening).
That evening we also went to a special place for her dinner: La Mediterranee. I had the most delicious quiche, then I had delicious Ici ice cream afterward (mint chocolate chip), something that I'd never tried before. And then I discovered that I'd found my current limits for dairy, even with Lactaid, as I was sick much later in the night. Ah well, still great food.
Today I did part of my writing up at Lake Temescal — apparently making the tour of Berkeley lakes. As is often the case when I'm up there I found the editorial work really light and productive. Good and useful changes came to me easily and intuitively. But the ever-threatening weather finally sent me scurrying home, where I finished Designers & Dragons: The '90s after dinner. Whew.
Mostly been relaxing since, which is very nice. I'm in fact planning to take a few weeks off of Designers & Dragons, as I've been working at the new edition for 9 months and am feeling a little burned.
Of course in the meantime I need to do our taxes, catch up on my reviews, write the most recent AP for my Pathfinder game, run another Pathfinder session, get some games out for the Endgame Auction, and get ahead on DnDClassics. But I should still be able to relax more than normal. Seriously.
And if the weather allows & no late-season colds come knocking at my door, I'm also going to try and go for a long and new bike ride sometime before I get back to work. Maybe in San Francisco. Maybe up past Pinole. haven't decided.
I've decided I have until Tax Day, then it's back to work on the final book, Designers & Dragons: The '00s, which I've got lots of new material planned for.
And then there was one.
You'll likely have noticed that I left out Wednesday and Thursday from my worknights. On Wednesday that's because I was off watching The Coast of Utopia: Voyage with Kimberly.
Thursday's busyness was unfortunately less benign. That afternoon I went down to the co-lo mainly to swap some memory in one of our machines. Unfortunately I found that two others were experiencing problems. When I was moving around one whose power supply had died, I accidentally knocked out a third machine's power cord. And it's power supply died too. Aggh! So I was down at the co-lo from like 1.30 until 6, with problems just stacking up. Chris came and rescued me so that I could attend my Thursday night gaming session (since it was too late too cancel). Fortunately he'd also managed to turn up a spare power supply, which we swapped in after the gaming. It was still a loooong night.
Thursday was Kimberly's birthday, but we'd agreed that she was going to spend it with friends (a good thing, given my troubles of the day!), then she and I celebrated it on Saturday.
On Satuday afternoon we took some salads & wraps (and chocolate) up to Tilden Park and enjoyed some lunch and a little bit of a walk through forest trails to Lake Anza. Very nice. It was a bit gloomy when we got there, but it cleared up nicely (and didn't start raining until the evening).
That evening we also went to a special place for her dinner: La Mediterranee. I had the most delicious quiche, then I had delicious Ici ice cream afterward (mint chocolate chip), something that I'd never tried before. And then I discovered that I'd found my current limits for dairy, even with Lactaid, as I was sick much later in the night. Ah well, still great food.
Today I did part of my writing up at Lake Temescal — apparently making the tour of Berkeley lakes. As is often the case when I'm up there I found the editorial work really light and productive. Good and useful changes came to me easily and intuitively. But the ever-threatening weather finally sent me scurrying home, where I finished Designers & Dragons: The '90s after dinner. Whew.
Mostly been relaxing since, which is very nice. I'm in fact planning to take a few weeks off of Designers & Dragons, as I've been working at the new edition for 9 months and am feeling a little burned.
Of course in the meantime I need to do our taxes, catch up on my reviews, write the most recent AP for my Pathfinder game, run another Pathfinder session, get some games out for the Endgame Auction, and get ahead on DnDClassics. But I should still be able to relax more than normal. Seriously.
And if the weather allows & no late-season colds come knocking at my door, I'm also going to try and go for a long and new bike ride sometime before I get back to work. Maybe in San Francisco. Maybe up past Pinole. haven't decided.
I've decided I have until Tax Day, then it's back to work on the final book, Designers & Dragons: The '00s, which I've got lots of new material planned for.