And today is Agenda day. I have been working on it for about two hours now. I probably would have been done except for two things -- they sent all the graphics in a form that I had to convert to jpgs, and they sent duplicates of some material under different names so that I have to compare everything to make sure it's actually something I need, and then give it the proper name.

So far the agenda is 127 pages long. I don't think it will be more than another ten or so pages, so I'm actually starting to get in a good 'almost done' mood.

Oh look. My cable connection just went down.

Yes, it's going to be one of those days...

136 pages. We're PDFing at the moment. And listening to a Smetana I don't think I've heard before. Vltava, 'which is about a river that rtises in the mountain forests of Bohemia.' A nice Tone Poem.

Oh drat. Cancel that PDF. Forgot to change some tags. Knew there was something I had forgotten...

Pretty funny. I can time that one. Took me about 14 minutes to change the links. The Tone Poem is nearly over.

I have an eclectic taste in music. I don't care what it's called, as long as I like it. Something like Vltava, which I really liked on the first listening, might be perfect for working one day. It's a wonderful live recording. Now we're on to Debussy's Iberia. Not as catchy right off. But I like classical music on occasion, and tonight seems to be one of those nights, at least for the moment.

Okay, I've achieved the basic PDF file again. Now to do bookmarks, and then send it off. And then I get to do the web page version of it.

I think my connection is back up. Going to send this and see...

Alas, my Visor is giving me trouble. I've used it almost daily for four years, and despite being dropped and occasion and having the cats play hockey with it, it's held up pretty well. But in the last two days it has glitched and eaten one opening to a short story twice, along with some important work for Vision. So I'm going to have to not use it much for a while until I can either replace it or figure out what's wrong. It may just be that I need to delete everything I can off of it and reload only a few programs.

At any rate, it's been a bit of an annoyance.

As is coming back here a few hours later and realizing that I never uploaded this. Snarf.


So tonight, while fighting the cold from hell yet again, I've been trying to recreate the Vision work. I don't mind losing the short story yet again (although it did bring about an uncommon bout of cursing... right until I realized what else I had lost), but the work for Vision is tougher. I have been working my way through it, but it's going to take a couple days to get all the notes gathered again.

Well, that's a much better way to start the day. Just made a sale to DKA ezine.

And yes, I am up early again, considering I didn't go to bed until just after 9am.

When I got up today, the headache that had been plaguing me for days had grown to full forced head exploding pain. Unfortunately there were things that had to be done. I worked through them, very slowly, but steadily. I took more asprin. Words started to be words again, and not just designs on the computer or paper. I finally remembered how to turn on the TV and the VCR, although by that point I no longer needed the brainless entertainment.

Tonight I need to get back to work. I am stopped by the fact that a back up of a new story didn't work, and I have less than 400 words out of a bit over 2000. Granted, in most cases, this wouldn't be a real problem. I don't mind reworking it from here. It wasn't that much material. But with the headache just sitting there ready to leap out... well, I think I'm going to have to let that rest, and stop where I am on word count.

Oh, this is just great. The backup of the new short story didn't take, and I've lost about 1700 words or more. Maybe around 2000. Ah well. I can redo that much.

Tomorrow.

I don't think I've ever missed this many days before. Life was just a bit too frantic for a few days there, mostly with FM site related stuff. Most of it has been worked out to some degree. Some of it needed to be talked over, but won't be. Hopefully it will still not be a problem again.

The site doesn't need babysitters. All it really needs is people who remember to not let their emotions run their actions sometimes. It's not a big huge deal... unless people aren't willing to admit that they could change.

Okay, anyway. Back to writing stuff. I'm working on the outline for the next book in the series. I had meant to do it in January, but I did other things instead. I hope I can get it done in the next week or so, and then get to work on the novel itself.

Off to pull out my notes, my asprin, and some tea to drink. With luck, I'll get something done.