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When we checked the Family Finances this weekend, we determined that after January's (! still keeping current, yay!) rent was accounted for, we still had enough left over to tackle the Matter of the Missing Toner. Huzzah! So on Sunday we went over to our overly-friendly neighborhood MicroCenter and good-geek/bad-geeked an indefatigably "helpful" clerk into leaving us the hell alone to cart off the Brother 5140 I had already identified through previous research as my best prospect for a replacement to the poorly-designed Samsung 1210. (I think they see Mum and think "Oo, here's one who doesn't know how to plug this stuff in" -- which is true, but she's not the customer here, dude. And 's'not as if I can be taken for anything but a geek.) So I have Toner again, O nummy miracle of technology, which means that I have to get back on the stick about the writing gig. So far since setting up the new printer I have printed out: the 'requirements' list for the next thing I want to submit to; their legalese form; and a version of my first-three-chapters reformatted to their rather whack guidelines on same. (Twice, as I have discovered that some combination of the new driver and my old software is preventing me from starting printing anywhere but the beginning of a file, which I have already emailed Brother about as that will be a nuisance to work around every time I need to reprint just one page from the middle of something. Grr.) Still to do for this particular Submission Package: a one-page (single-spaced!) synopsis, a chapter-by-chapter outline, and some sort of cover letter explaining all of same. Busy days ahead, busy days.
Somewhat related to the above, my paid LJ expires on Friday. Debating whether the running tally of rejections that I've been keeping via this paid style is really worth ponying up for an extension... but then, that would be just the time that something Interesting would happen, right? Decisions, decisions...
Somewhat related to the above, my paid LJ expires on Friday. Debating whether the running tally of rejections that I've been keeping via this paid style is really worth ponying up for an extension... but then, that would be just the time that something Interesting would happen, right? Decisions, decisions...
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