Emily @emily@octodon.social

Was octodon.social just offline for an hour or so?

You want to see a picture of my best girl? Of course you do.

https://octodon.social/media/kykbXWgC9wgnhOwsoAM

Good morning.

Glad I washed those dishes.

I hope everyone has a good day.

(Looking at dirty dishes in sink): "Is morning-me gonna be sad about having to wash these?"
*thinks*
(To self): "Yes."
*rolls up sleeves and starts washing dishes*

Ugh, but I'm also right in front of the Fox News TV

#gymwoes

Omigosh, I'm tooting from the stair-steppy machine at the gym!

Here's an interested ProfHacker post on blogging:

https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/time-for-blogs-again/65266

I have done small-scale blogging with Wordpress installed on one of my domains for ... probably over a decade? Various incarnations, various topics--everything from ESL teaching to reading books in translation to, currently, running and hiking.

I also read a ton of blogs and I feel like I get a lot out of them. I use Feedly to collect them.

#blogging

I'm checking an index for a book and one of the entries is "cheerleaders, gender-bending"

#editing

Here's a photo of #fostercat #2. Her name is Anastasia. She's been with us for about 3 weeks. Before that she'd been living (dumped by owners who moved?) in a parking garage in Manhattan. Basically slowly starving to death. Spouse and I did NOT intend to take in another foster right now but here she is. Eating and sleeping, mostly, and hopefully learning to trust people again.

https://octodon.social/media/99ItHyFmYxV39mcmLaM

GOOD MORNING.

It's cloudy, but not raining.

Omigosh there are a lot of cats to feed.

What a daaaaayy.
(It was fine. Really. Just a lot going on, more than expected.)

I also diligently search for the word "pubic" in every single book PDF before it goes to the printer. I am terrified that that will slip in, in the place of "public." (I don't think I've worked on a book yet where "pubic" has been a necessary part of the text.)

#editing

I know Word's spellcheck won't catch everything. And it won't tell you when you have "there" in place of "their." But I always copy the text out of a nearly final PDF, paste it into Word, and run spellcheck right at the end of a project, and it ALWAYS catches at *least* one thing that proofreaders, authors, editors, and I all missed. Today it was "Commonweath" instead of "Commonwealth."

Whew.

#editing

March 31 is World Backup Day! Who knew. Here's a little post from ProfHacker: https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/how-are-you-going-to-celebrate-world-backup-day/65259

Mastalab seems to be working well.

(image: black and white cat lounging on his back, fluffy white belly showing)

https://octodon.social/media/WelFroBzPKhm4RLLORE

What's everyone #reading?

I #amreading New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson. I think it's good but I'm having a hard time really getting into it--maybe because I'm reading it as an ebook on my phone and that feels like a weirdly disjointed approach for this #book.