Happy Thursday, Aledan Merfolk! It’s been a busy week around here, mostly because my instrument at work has been acting wonky for the past two weeks. I finally figured out why yesterday afternoon: my dumbass switched two of the three columns and connected them to the wrong place. Whee! I’ve reconnected them to the correct places and now I’m waiting for my instrument to normalize again.
In writing news: I got my critiques back for the FE short story, and the plot seems to be pretty solid so I’m mostly working on making the words pretty now. I really suck at pretty words, so I have two new CPs to help me 🙂 When this draft is finished I’m sending it to a final person (who’s read FE and has some idea of the world), and then I’ll be sending it in to the anthology and crossing my fingers!
Since I’ve been hanging out in FE world lately I decided to read Nameless for shits and giggles last weekend. HAHAHAHAHA! *cries* It turns out I learned a lot writing and editing StO last year. Nameless is going to need the first 2/3 re-written…again. The last third is solid, at least. And the plot is still good, it’s just the writing that sucks. I’m so glad I spent a whole year sending that abomination out to agents.
I need a drink.
Good thing Sunday is National Margarita Day! I tried to find a margarita-themed custom pony, but could only find drawings. In my searching I did find a few awesome customs to feature though – I’m just waiting on the OK from the customizers. Hopefully one of them will get back to me before Sunday so I can post CPotW this week!
I hope you have a wonderful weekend, Aledans 🙂
Your instrument scares me. What does it do? o.O LOL
At least Nameless just needs pretty words and not a plot fix.
lol, it tests for PCBs, Pesticides and Herbicides. That tall part injects the samples into the instrument, heats the sample up to become gas, then pushes it through columns at different rates. The screen shows chromatography like this: http://blog.restek.com/?p=7815 and I decide if the sample I injected has any of those things in it. It’s interesting, but the instrument is really picky and things have to be *just so* for it to work 🙂
And yes, thank goodness I don’t have to rework the plot again! Although it’s still a good 80k I have to rewrite (Nameless is LONG).
Does the instrument have a name? Major MassSpec?
Maybe that’s what it needs: a name! Maybe it’ll start to behave if I name it 😉
This way it’ll feel part of the team. Instead of just being ‘that thing’. hehe