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daily update, Friday Feb. 14
Feb. 14th, 2020 08:17 pmThings done today:
1. Tried to figure out if my attempt from early this week to pay my health insurance bill electronically had gone through or not. Results inconclusive. Will check again tomorrow.
2. Rental company office 9am-7pm. Very slow; nobody wanted to be out in the cold!
I did have to do some computer-related troubleshooting on two occasions, though. The first was when one of our building concierges had an iPad glitch and couldn't figure out how to fix it, so I had to go do that for her. (She now knows that you can't do anything that requires the touch keypad when you have the package scanner activated, and also where the iPad's off button is. *headdesk*) The other involved an internet access problem some tenants were having. We've checked both potential issues on our end -- their service is turned on and the ethernet jacks are working -- so it pretty much had to be a router issue on their end and that does seem to be the case. I talked a tenant through the first steps of getting a new router configured to work with our network, but clocked out before they could call back to let me know if it worked.
3. Finished reading Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, which is the first of the Grisha trilogy (in the same world as Six of Crows, just a few years earlier and in a different country). I am not the biggest fan of first-person narration unless the narrator has a very distinctive voice, but in this case it wasn't especially distracting and the love triangle thing that seems to be obligatory in YA books these days was mostly not a thing and then turned out to be... uh... super not a thing, for kind of spoilery reasons? Insofar as you can spoil a book that's several years old and has, you know, two sequels whose events depend on said spoilery revelations.
4. Wrote three 3-sentence ficathon fills. One is three sentences. One is nine sentences, because while I could technically have jammed it down into four sentences with excessive use of semi-colons, that made the rhythm fall all wrong. And the third is 885 words long and makes no pretense whatsoever at following structural restrictions because it wanted to be a proper ficlet and not just a snapshot. (...I have a history of getting slightly carried away when writing about Morwen and Telemain from the Enchanted Forest Chronicles or Jadis from Narnia, so putting all three in one story was always likely to get out of hand. *wry*)
5. Continued listening to The World of Byzantium.
And now I'm going to finish making dinner and read either some fic or maybe another T. Kingfisher short novel before I go to bed. :)
1. Tried to figure out if my attempt from early this week to pay my health insurance bill electronically had gone through or not. Results inconclusive. Will check again tomorrow.
2. Rental company office 9am-7pm. Very slow; nobody wanted to be out in the cold!
I did have to do some computer-related troubleshooting on two occasions, though. The first was when one of our building concierges had an iPad glitch and couldn't figure out how to fix it, so I had to go do that for her. (She now knows that you can't do anything that requires the touch keypad when you have the package scanner activated, and also where the iPad's off button is. *headdesk*) The other involved an internet access problem some tenants were having. We've checked both potential issues on our end -- their service is turned on and the ethernet jacks are working -- so it pretty much had to be a router issue on their end and that does seem to be the case. I talked a tenant through the first steps of getting a new router configured to work with our network, but clocked out before they could call back to let me know if it worked.
3. Finished reading Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, which is the first of the Grisha trilogy (in the same world as Six of Crows, just a few years earlier and in a different country). I am not the biggest fan of first-person narration unless the narrator has a very distinctive voice, but in this case it wasn't especially distracting and the love triangle thing that seems to be obligatory in YA books these days was mostly not a thing and then turned out to be... uh... super not a thing, for kind of spoilery reasons? Insofar as you can spoil a book that's several years old and has, you know, two sequels whose events depend on said spoilery revelations.
4. Wrote three 3-sentence ficathon fills. One is three sentences. One is nine sentences, because while I could technically have jammed it down into four sentences with excessive use of semi-colons, that made the rhythm fall all wrong. And the third is 885 words long and makes no pretense whatsoever at following structural restrictions because it wanted to be a proper ficlet and not just a snapshot. (...I have a history of getting slightly carried away when writing about Morwen and Telemain from the Enchanted Forest Chronicles or Jadis from Narnia, so putting all three in one story was always likely to get out of hand. *wry*)
5. Continued listening to The World of Byzantium.
And now I'm going to finish making dinner and read either some fic or maybe another T. Kingfisher short novel before I go to bed. :)
