So, yesterday’s experiment worked, aside from a couple of typos. I was going to go in and correct them all but almost instantly forgot about it. Ah well, life’s too short to keep going back and correcting things like that, I suppose…but I bet I do it anyway before the week is out.
The other thing I noticed was that WordPress went in and added another carriage return for every one I put in, so I had to go through and remove all of those.
Something else that’s certain is I don’t type as well on the tablet as I do on the phone. How odd, when it’s a bigger screen and a bigger keyboard.
I still have to add yesterday’s and today’s blog posts to the Scrivener master file. I like to keep all the blog posts together, and the apps won’t have as much storage space as the desktop and portable hard drive. But for now, I’m tapping them out on the Novelist app.
I was up bright and early yesterday as someone was coming to look at our new windows.
We came home during the storms the other week and we could see the living room vertical blinds moving! The radiator beneath the window wasn’t on. The window wasn’t open. And nor were the vents. But there was a right draught coming through one of them. So we arranged a recall.
He was coming at 9am, so I had to make sure I was up, dressed and ready.
At 9:30 the phone rang. He was going to be 20 minutes late…I pointed out he was already 30 minutes late and he changed it to 20 minutes away. So there was 50 minutes wherein I could have done something else. That’s a whole Pomodoro for me.
Twenty minutes later he was telling me there was nothing he could do about the draught as it was coming through the vents, even though they were closed. A quoible designed to meet new building regulations regarding ventilation, as people can’t be trusted to just open a window!
Great. We’d spent thousands of pounds replacing old draughty windows with brand-new draughty windows! They do look a lot nicer, though.
We will have to consider this in more detail before doing something about it.
I was also waiting in for a furniture delivery. I’d requested a 12pm – 6pm delivery slot and they’d texted to say they’d be here between 1pm and 3pm. Super!
I had my late breakfast, fed the dog and birds, folded and put away some washing, put another wash load through, did some of my exercises, washed up the crocks, moved the existing table and chairs so there was somewhere to put the new boxes…
At 12pm, just as I sat down at my desk, the delivery men called to say they were 30 minutes away and would that be all right. As I was already tied to the house, I said it was fine.
Thirty minutes later they’d been and gone!
I faffed for a bit, read up about Russell Brand, David Walliams and other news before taking the dog for his walk. We pretty much had the meadow to ourselves. There have been loose ponies on the fields for the past couple of days, but I didn’t see any. Mind you, the fog was so thick I couldn’t see the other side of the field. The ponies could have been in front of us all the way around!
When we got back, I had my dinner and gave my desk another try, but couldn’t settle into anything.
I declined an editing job as the proposed budget was too low – not stupidly low but low enough for me to decline it – I caught up with blogs and social media, and then I called it a day. The dog had been ‘challenging’ all day after he disturbed my night too, and I gave in to tiredness.
I have a couple of clear runs ahead of a day of errands on Friday, so I need to get my head down today and tomorrow and do some actual work. I need to get out of this doldrum and back in the saddle.
