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I've had an excellent evening. I had a pretty good afternoon, too, at that. I got a little frustrated and freaked out this morning because the stupid program I'm working on was refusing to work and left for lunch twenty minutes early. I figured that I would regret it in the afternoon because that's when the day gets slow and boring, but when I came back, I was able to focus a whole lot better, and just before I left, I made some Major Progress in my current project--like, it works now. It still has quite a few enhancements to be made, but the basic functionality is there (in short, it adds, updates and deletes records in a file) and the &$^#&*! error messages work as planned. That's what's been causing me to tear out my hair.. seems like such a simple thing but it was a gigantic mess.
After I got started working on Mosaic Minds this month, it went rather smoothly. It took me a long while to get my groove on Sunday--I made the same stupid mistake file renaming mistake three times in a row, and then crashed my ftp program, and then accidentally closed it when I reopened it, and then saved a file over another file that shouldn't have been saved over.. stuff like that. But after all that mess, it went together really well, and since we've restructured a little bit for this issue and made a few administrative decisions, I probably cut at least two or three hours off the amount of time it takes to do it, and eliminated the parts that I hated the most. So I'm pretty excited about the whole thing again, and I'm thinking that in a week or two, I might be able to put a little more time into making things run a little more smoothly again. I usually get completely burnt out by the time the web work gets done for the month and I never want to see it again, but I'm still optimistic and cheerful this month. Having said that, a day off from working on it tonight has been absolutely brilliant. We've been so blissfully lazy, and I actually felt like I have free time again. Thursdays, it seems, are good days for me.
Anyway, the best part about all that MM stuff is that this is, in my opinion, the best issue we've had so far. Our two new staff members (She-Dork and Jasmine) were a major breath of fresh air. She-Dork's new movie column was absolutely hilarious--I stopped working long enough to read the entire thing aloud to M, who laughed uproariously on multiple occasions. Honestly, I don't read much of what's going on while I'm editing content--I'd never get done if I stopped to read--but I found myself reading several things just because I really wanted to. Beverly's article about her love of romance novels was another one of those.
Tomorrow is M's birthday--he'll be the big 3-0. We're going to Morehead for a steak dinner and will probably be back very late, if we don't spend the night. I doubt that we will but we'll have to talk about it to be sure. I'm a horrible wife cause my husband has no presents to open tomorrow. I did give him one present (dvd burner) two months ago, and he's ordered himself some books, so it's not like he's not getting any presents at all, but it feels wrong. I think he's trying to pretend that he's not turning 30 so he's not urging me to make a big deal out of it. ;) Funny, I always thought I would have at least one baby before my husband was 30--didn't really plan on marrying someone five years older than me, though. ;) Five years isn't all that much, really, but it's still surprising when I think about it too much. I don't even know what I'm trying to say here, other than that it's time for bed and I'm not ready to go yet.
Also, fever blisters suck, but M bought me some medicine for it today that was overpriced for its weight in gold. $14! For less than an ounce! He said the pharmacist talked about it as if it was medicine's gift to humanity. I'll reserve judgement until I've seen how it works, but I figure at that price, it had better heal the thing and do the dishes while it's at it. I'm often disappointed in my expectations, though.. can't imagine why.
After I got started working on Mosaic Minds this month, it went rather smoothly. It took me a long while to get my groove on Sunday--I made the same stupid mistake file renaming mistake three times in a row, and then crashed my ftp program, and then accidentally closed it when I reopened it, and then saved a file over another file that shouldn't have been saved over.. stuff like that. But after all that mess, it went together really well, and since we've restructured a little bit for this issue and made a few administrative decisions, I probably cut at least two or three hours off the amount of time it takes to do it, and eliminated the parts that I hated the most. So I'm pretty excited about the whole thing again, and I'm thinking that in a week or two, I might be able to put a little more time into making things run a little more smoothly again. I usually get completely burnt out by the time the web work gets done for the month and I never want to see it again, but I'm still optimistic and cheerful this month. Having said that, a day off from working on it tonight has been absolutely brilliant. We've been so blissfully lazy, and I actually felt like I have free time again. Thursdays, it seems, are good days for me.
Anyway, the best part about all that MM stuff is that this is, in my opinion, the best issue we've had so far. Our two new staff members (She-Dork and Jasmine) were a major breath of fresh air. She-Dork's new movie column was absolutely hilarious--I stopped working long enough to read the entire thing aloud to M, who laughed uproariously on multiple occasions. Honestly, I don't read much of what's going on while I'm editing content--I'd never get done if I stopped to read--but I found myself reading several things just because I really wanted to. Beverly's article about her love of romance novels was another one of those.
Tomorrow is M's birthday--he'll be the big 3-0. We're going to Morehead for a steak dinner and will probably be back very late, if we don't spend the night. I doubt that we will but we'll have to talk about it to be sure. I'm a horrible wife cause my husband has no presents to open tomorrow. I did give him one present (dvd burner) two months ago, and he's ordered himself some books, so it's not like he's not getting any presents at all, but it feels wrong. I think he's trying to pretend that he's not turning 30 so he's not urging me to make a big deal out of it. ;) Funny, I always thought I would have at least one baby before my husband was 30--didn't really plan on marrying someone five years older than me, though. ;) Five years isn't all that much, really, but it's still surprising when I think about it too much. I don't even know what I'm trying to say here, other than that it's time for bed and I'm not ready to go yet.
Also, fever blisters suck, but M bought me some medicine for it today that was overpriced for its weight in gold. $14! For less than an ounce! He said the pharmacist talked about it as if it was medicine's gift to humanity. I'll reserve judgement until I've seen how it works, but I figure at that price, it had better heal the thing and do the dishes while it's at it. I'm often disappointed in my expectations, though.. can't imagine why.
