various and sundry take a tax deduction
Feb. 18th, 2009 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilmanGalley Slave alert! Galleys are going out this week. Everyone should stow their oar and rest up...
As I mentioned this morning, part of my day was spent doing site research. It's a small scene but an important one, and has repercussions not only for this book, but for the entire series, and into the Retrievers series as well. So it needed to be right and, while I'd been there before, I needed to know specifics. Because if you're going to ask people to suspend their disbelief, you've got to give them a sturdy chair to stand on.
The Pinetum, in Central Park
And then I had Tax Joy (not), and then on to
(I swear. Muppet-puppy)
And, to end this day on the proper note of OMGWTF, from AP:
"About a quarter of the nation's TV stations cut off their analog signals Tuesday, causing sets to go dark in households that were not prepared for digital television. Though most viewers were ready, some stations and call centers reported a steady stream of questions from frustrated callers."
Guys. If you have a tv, and watch it enough to know your signal's been cut, you should have been tipped to the fact that this was planned.... two years ago? There's been television coverage, newspaper articles, and congressional debate on the topic, all front and center and not covert at-farking-all. So if you were still caught off guard, unprepared, and clueless enough to complain about it/ask what was going on?
*facepalm*
And now I have to try and get some wordage in. *whimpers*
As I mentioned this morning, part of my day was spent doing site research. It's a small scene but an important one, and has repercussions not only for this book, but for the entire series, and into the Retrievers series as well. So it needed to be right and, while I'd been there before, I needed to know specifics. Because if you're going to ask people to suspend their disbelief, you've got to give them a sturdy chair to stand on.
The Pinetum, in Central Park
And then I had Tax Joy (not), and then on to
(I swear. Muppet-puppy)
And, to end this day on the proper note of OMGWTF, from AP:
"About a quarter of the nation's TV stations cut off their analog signals Tuesday, causing sets to go dark in households that were not prepared for digital television. Though most viewers were ready, some stations and call centers reported a steady stream of questions from frustrated callers."
Guys. If you have a tv, and watch it enough to know your signal's been cut, you should have been tipped to the fact that this was planned.... two years ago? There's been television coverage, newspaper articles, and congressional debate on the topic, all front and center and not covert at-farking-all. So if you were still caught off guard, unprepared, and clueless enough to complain about it/ask what was going on?
*facepalm*
And now I have to try and get some wordage in. *whimpers*
