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automatedalice! It's raining here, but I hope it's sunny all day where you are ::hugs::
I'm trying to uncross my eyes so I can write; in a fit of madness I decided to make all 360,000 words of Secretary have consistent spelling, rather than half US, half English. Find and replace is a huge help but you have to know what words to tell it to look for... I did twenty or so obvious ones (ise/our endings) but that's the tip of the iceberg, believe me.
And because it's me and I'm insane, once I started, I didn't want to stop. Should get it finished today... just as the betas on AtS No Limits 6.7 roll in.
Eleanor got her first ever R (fail) grade on a test, poor baby. Remember the adjective one? This was adjective/adverbs. Twelve sentences and you had to underline adjectives in blue, circle adverbs in red.
I think she just got hopelessly confused trying to do three things at once and we had blue circles, red lines and a sea of X marks. She got 15 out of 30. And again, I would've got some of them wrong. I don't think I'm qualified to beta or write, I really don't... 'He would never eat apples'; 'never' is an adverb. I suppose I can see the logic; it modifies the verb 'to eat' but it just wouldn't have occurred to me. I gave her a tip; next time go through all twelve just doing the adjectives, then all twelve just doing the adverbs.
Next up; her first book report en francais which the bus stop mums speak of in hushed tones of horror. Oh, joy.
And for those following the Sofa Saga (look, don't tell me you're here for the smut. Sofas are way more exciting. And, hey, you can have smut on them. Bit not mine. Because it's new. And the leather's kind of slippery.) Sears called to say, ::fanfare:: the Escaped Loveseat has been found, huddled in a corner of the warehouse, hungry and disorientated, and it'll be arriving on Friday. Yes! So, mindful of all the pressure from my friend who terrifies shopkeepers into cowering submission, and the support from you people, I tremblingly tried to maybe get the delivery charge refunded.
You know what she said? 'Oh, we have, madam; the loveseat will be delivered free of charge.'
There was this pause as I tried to process this. It was kind of like saying, 'water's wet' so it didn't really sink in. Then it did and I gave her to understand that, yes, too bloody right it would be, and I was talking about the original delivery charge.
And because I'm a wimp, no, we didn't get a refund.
Finally, a lovely lady I've known for many years in the Heinlein fandom, has got herself an LJ, so if you seemerfilly around, say hi ::hugs Merfilly:
automatedalice! It's raining here, but I hope it's sunny all day where you are ::hugs::I'm trying to uncross my eyes so I can write; in a fit of madness I decided to make all 360,000 words of Secretary have consistent spelling, rather than half US, half English. Find and replace is a huge help but you have to know what words to tell it to look for... I did twenty or so obvious ones (ise/our endings) but that's the tip of the iceberg, believe me.
And because it's me and I'm insane, once I started, I didn't want to stop. Should get it finished today... just as the betas on AtS No Limits 6.7 roll in.
Eleanor got her first ever R (fail) grade on a test, poor baby. Remember the adjective one? This was adjective/adverbs. Twelve sentences and you had to underline adjectives in blue, circle adverbs in red.
I think she just got hopelessly confused trying to do three things at once and we had blue circles, red lines and a sea of X marks. She got 15 out of 30. And again, I would've got some of them wrong. I don't think I'm qualified to beta or write, I really don't... 'He would never eat apples'; 'never' is an adverb. I suppose I can see the logic; it modifies the verb 'to eat' but it just wouldn't have occurred to me. I gave her a tip; next time go through all twelve just doing the adjectives, then all twelve just doing the adverbs.
Next up; her first book report en francais which the bus stop mums speak of in hushed tones of horror. Oh, joy.
And for those following the Sofa Saga (look, don't tell me you're here for the smut. Sofas are way more exciting. And, hey, you can have smut on them. Bit not mine. Because it's new. And the leather's kind of slippery.) Sears called to say, ::fanfare:: the Escaped Loveseat has been found, huddled in a corner of the warehouse, hungry and disorientated, and it'll be arriving on Friday. Yes! So, mindful of all the pressure from my friend who terrifies shopkeepers into cowering submission, and the support from you people, I tremblingly tried to maybe get the delivery charge refunded.
You know what she said? 'Oh, we have, madam; the loveseat will be delivered free of charge.'
There was this pause as I tried to process this. It was kind of like saying, 'water's wet' so it didn't really sink in. Then it did and I gave her to understand that, yes, too bloody right it would be, and I was talking about the original delivery charge.
And because I'm a wimp, no, we didn't get a refund.
Finally, a lovely lady I've known for many years in the Heinlein fandom, has got herself an LJ, so if you see
merfilly around, say hi ::hugs Merfilly: