I'm back
No, I haven't dropped off the face of the earth -- just the Internet. From our local news folks, here's what happened:
Thieves broke into a Duke Power substation Monday evening and ripped out about $4,000 in copper materials, police said. The theft occurred at about 5:30 p.m. Monday at a fenced substation at 2900 Ashe St., police said. The thieves stole copper grounding rods and damaged dozens of fiber-optic communications lines while cutting through a pipe to grab more copper, police said. Damage to the substation was estimated at about $20,000, police said.
Of course, this put an unknown number of companies essentially out of business today as far as email and Internet was concerned. Fortunately our phones were up, so we were able to contact our clients that way. Service was restored about 20 minutes ago (a little before 2:00 in the afternoon). I'm sure those repair guys busted butt to make it happen.
So. . .for an update on The Trouble With Demons, my plan is to finish the writing by tomorrow night. This will give me Thursday night to put together the transmission for my editor, Anne Sowards. At the moment all of my chapters are in separate Word documents. I have to put them all in one file, format, paginate, and insert the appropriate headers (my name/book title). The "master plan" is to email the finished manuscript to Anne first thing Friday morning (my due date), so that it's in her email inbox when she gets in the office. I like to turn books early in the morning of my due date. I don't know why, I just feel it's the polite & professional thing to do. Anne wouldn't mind me taking the rest of the workday, but I would. If it's due on Friday, in my mind, it's due first thing Friday morning. ; )
Your "on the verge of being giddy because she finished a book" author,
Lisa
Thieves broke into a Duke Power substation Monday evening and ripped out about $4,000 in copper materials, police said. The theft occurred at about 5:30 p.m. Monday at a fenced substation at 2900 Ashe St., police said. The thieves stole copper grounding rods and damaged dozens of fiber-optic communications lines while cutting through a pipe to grab more copper, police said. Damage to the substation was estimated at about $20,000, police said.
Of course, this put an unknown number of companies essentially out of business today as far as email and Internet was concerned. Fortunately our phones were up, so we were able to contact our clients that way. Service was restored about 20 minutes ago (a little before 2:00 in the afternoon). I'm sure those repair guys busted butt to make it happen.
So. . .for an update on The Trouble With Demons, my plan is to finish the writing by tomorrow night. This will give me Thursday night to put together the transmission for my editor, Anne Sowards. At the moment all of my chapters are in separate Word documents. I have to put them all in one file, format, paginate, and insert the appropriate headers (my name/book title). The "master plan" is to email the finished manuscript to Anne first thing Friday morning (my due date), so that it's in her email inbox when she gets in the office. I like to turn books early in the morning of my due date. I don't know why, I just feel it's the polite & professional thing to do. Anne wouldn't mind me taking the rest of the workday, but I would. If it's due on Friday, in my mind, it's due first thing Friday morning. ; )
Your "on the verge of being giddy because she finished a book" author,
Lisa
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2:06 PM
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