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Happy hump day!
Jun. 13th, 2012 10:14 pmToday was actually a pretty good day. Work was worth note in that it was both easy and beneficial. I did a small presentation in front of the class, and got praise for it, and more importantly, I didn't feel especially nervous about doing so. I consider that to be progress.
We also spent about 20 minutes outside, watching the Disney cruise ship leave port because the trainer wanted us to see how their horn plays the first few notes of "When You Wish Upon a Star." It was chilly, since we were so close to the ocean and fog was rolling in, but I didn't mind too much since it meant I could breathe fresh air and have a little bit of time away from the computer. As much as I like computers and use them a lot for personal things, it's nice to take a few minutes and get into natural light when you use them all day for work.
After work, I came home and had a delicious supper of teriyaki salmon and rice. Simple, relatively cheap (since I bought the salmon fillets when they were on sale), filling, and very tasty. Simple rice-and-meat dishes like that are common in this apartment, because they're so easy to make and yet can have so many variations and all be really delicious.
I spent most of the rest of the evening cutting up magazine pages into strips, in preparation for making another batch of paper beads this weekend. I figured that instead of cutting strips and rolling beads, cutting strips and rolling more beads, it would be easier to do each step in large batches. Marking and cutting the strips takes almost no time at all, and is easy to do it little bits on nights when I'm home from work. But rolling the beads and applying the sealant takes longer and can get a little fiddly, so that's best left for when I have a full day off work. And by that point, if I've cut up even one magazine page a day during the week, I'll be able to make lots of beads, and enough bracelets that it will definitely be worth making a large update to the Riality Studios Etsy store.
Paper crafts seem to be my big obsession at the moment. I'm still sewing, but in between cutting strips. I have to get back to sewing all the 2 inch squares together for my postage stamp quilt. I've been neglecting that.
I also have to stop forgetting to work on the two pillows for my father and his wife. He'll be back in town in about a month, and while it shouldn't take too long to finish the pillows, if I keep putting it off and ignoring the project, I'll find myself with only a day to spare and too little done to be able to finish on time. I'll try to remember to sew some more of it tomorrow evening after work.
I started reading Jo Anderton's Suited today. It's the sequel to Debris, which I read last year and rather enjoyed. It's an uncorrected e-ARC, which normally doesn't bother me (I can overlook the occasional typo), but there are a lot of formatting errors. Any instance of "ti" gets turned into a capital H. A combination of "ft" gets turned into "_" for some reason. And "tt" becomes [. Once you figure that out, it gets more readable, but it's still a pain to have to adjust the way I read in order to accommodate for errors that could have been really easily caught before giving reviewers access to the book.
Still, I can't complain too loudly. I did get the review copy for free, after all, and I'm still enjoying the story. I try my best not to hold formatting errors against the final review, unless it's a finished and published copy of the book that I'm reading. Then errors are fair game, because they had plenty of chances to be caught and corrected before final publication.
I suppose I should get offline now and go feed my cats before they start getting bothersome about it. Then it's off to bed. Only two more days of work before the weekend!
We also spent about 20 minutes outside, watching the Disney cruise ship leave port because the trainer wanted us to see how their horn plays the first few notes of "When You Wish Upon a Star." It was chilly, since we were so close to the ocean and fog was rolling in, but I didn't mind too much since it meant I could breathe fresh air and have a little bit of time away from the computer. As much as I like computers and use them a lot for personal things, it's nice to take a few minutes and get into natural light when you use them all day for work.
After work, I came home and had a delicious supper of teriyaki salmon and rice. Simple, relatively cheap (since I bought the salmon fillets when they were on sale), filling, and very tasty. Simple rice-and-meat dishes like that are common in this apartment, because they're so easy to make and yet can have so many variations and all be really delicious.
I spent most of the rest of the evening cutting up magazine pages into strips, in preparation for making another batch of paper beads this weekend. I figured that instead of cutting strips and rolling beads, cutting strips and rolling more beads, it would be easier to do each step in large batches. Marking and cutting the strips takes almost no time at all, and is easy to do it little bits on nights when I'm home from work. But rolling the beads and applying the sealant takes longer and can get a little fiddly, so that's best left for when I have a full day off work. And by that point, if I've cut up even one magazine page a day during the week, I'll be able to make lots of beads, and enough bracelets that it will definitely be worth making a large update to the Riality Studios Etsy store.
Paper crafts seem to be my big obsession at the moment. I'm still sewing, but in between cutting strips. I have to get back to sewing all the 2 inch squares together for my postage stamp quilt. I've been neglecting that.
I also have to stop forgetting to work on the two pillows for my father and his wife. He'll be back in town in about a month, and while it shouldn't take too long to finish the pillows, if I keep putting it off and ignoring the project, I'll find myself with only a day to spare and too little done to be able to finish on time. I'll try to remember to sew some more of it tomorrow evening after work.
I started reading Jo Anderton's Suited today. It's the sequel to Debris, which I read last year and rather enjoyed. It's an uncorrected e-ARC, which normally doesn't bother me (I can overlook the occasional typo), but there are a lot of formatting errors. Any instance of "ti" gets turned into a capital H. A combination of "ft" gets turned into "_" for some reason. And "tt" becomes [. Once you figure that out, it gets more readable, but it's still a pain to have to adjust the way I read in order to accommodate for errors that could have been really easily caught before giving reviewers access to the book.
Still, I can't complain too loudly. I did get the review copy for free, after all, and I'm still enjoying the story. I try my best not to hold formatting errors against the final review, unless it's a finished and published copy of the book that I'm reading. Then errors are fair game, because they had plenty of chances to be caught and corrected before final publication.
I suppose I should get offline now and go feed my cats before they start getting bothersome about it. Then it's off to bed. Only two more days of work before the weekend!
