I woke up with all good intentions yesterday morning, on time and everything. I had my dirty cuppa, but I didn’t have a quiet hour because I’d already reported a leaking pipe in the roof the night before and I had to check on the progress for that as the leak was getting steadily worse. They said they were waiting to hear from the landlord, but I thought this kind of leak was something that had to be done. We shall see…
I put some washing through and hung some washing out, and the dog went out for his walk. He was better yesterday than he was the day before, but there’s still room for lots of improvement. He barked twice, when he saw other dogs in the distance. And he whined twice. The whining is getting better and he’s waiting to cross roads now on a slack lead, so improvements there. We just have to keep at it with him.
When we got back I went to work, only to find the internet wasn’t working. I tried Quickline first, which is our default now, resetting the connection, etc. And when that didn’t work, I tried the Sky we still have connected. (We really ought to cancel this now as we’re paying for 2 broadband services.) But that wouldn’t connect either. My next check was the 2 lines connecting the property to the closest pole. Those were fine too. So I made the phone call.
Fortunately it was a known issue and they were working on it, an outage somewhere that was affecting quite a few people. She didn’t say if those people were local to here or scattered around the country. But, they knew about it, they were dealing with it, and they had engineers already working on it, so all good there.
I turned to my work schedule, and first on the list was study time, for which I need an internet connection in order to watch the videos. So I pushed that to one side and started today’s blog post instead.
The next job on the list was the March newsletter, which I could at least draft offline, but I would need an internet connection in order to send it out. I opened up the Scrivener file and started typing.
I’d almost finished that when the Sky internet came back on. I checked Quickline, but that was still down. So I finished the typing and used Sky to get the newsletter out. This is the last newsletter for a while, while I concentrate on other things for a few months.
I had some play time in the garden with the dog. He’s chasing a ball now, he just isn’t bringing it back yet. And then I went to watch my next depth in action workshop, Week 5. Back at work and it was the client edit for an hour or so.
While I was doing that I decided to print off the client edit proofreading job that had come in the day before. I had a quick look at it and was delighted to see hardly any markings from the proofreader. With that printed off safely and in its ‘jelly’ (clear folder), I fired off a quick email to the client to let her know the pdf had arrived safely and to give her an idea of when she might get it back.
I was going to start a different book next, but as this is the first of 3 that the proofreader has sent back, I’ll do this one next. Right after I finish the current edit.
Returning to the edit, I continued until I reached a place I felt able to stop, then finalised today’s blog post and scheduled it.
Quickline didn’t come back online all day. Thank goodness we still had Sky…(Never thought I’d ever hear myself say that…)
Today it will be more of the same, only I’ll be on Week 6 of the depth in action workshop. I want to start the dates work today as well, though, if I can. I want to be posting the 40 writing prompts next week.
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