Last night, after work, we held a wake.<\/p>\n
Layoffs had come to the company on Thursday, and my department lost two — a writer and a graphics artist.<\/p>\n
Usually, when there’s a departure, the department goes to lunch on the last day at a local restaurant. That, sadly, wasn’t an option this time, so the decision was made — an Irish wake at an Irish pub.<\/p>\n
Good times were had. Much Guinness was consumed. And Killians. And Smithwick’s. (Though I only stuck with the Guinness; Smithwick’s is fine, but Killians is merely faux-Irish and, thus, not acceptible.) Shots were had, such as the Dirty Girl Scout<\/a> and some others whose names I didn’t catch.<\/p>\n On tap for this weekend…<\/p>\n 1) 2) This required a special Word template. When I worked for EB Games, the training materials had a really nifty page layout, and I wanted to recreate that for this project. So I dug out the old EB training manuals (we were supposed to throw those out when the GameStop merger happened, and being a good manager I did; I threw them out into the trunk of my car), and created a decent fascimile of that old EB layout.<\/p>\n 3) Done. It took three hours to transcribe (and it’s only an hour long), as the tape quality wasn’t the best and the interviewee has a Northern accent, though not a greatly thick one. (Northern, in the UK sense, that is.) So there were only a few spots where I was abjectly baffled at what he said. Then there was an hour of turning this stream of consciousness into something that fit a paragraphical structure; run-on sentences do not lend themselves toward comprehension.<\/p>\n 4) Article. I have a 4k word article due in two weeks, roughly, and the outline’s pretty much nailed down. Now it’s a question of putting words on paper.<\/p>\n I’m sure I’m forgetting something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night, after work, we held a wake. Layoffs had come to the company on Thursday, and my department lost two — a writer and a graphics artist. Usually, when there’s a departure, the department goes to lunch on the last day at a local restaurant. That, sadly, wasn’t an option this time, so theContinue reading “On Saturday’s Plans”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4124,4102],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-work","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Laundry<\/s>. Done, save for the folding of socks and t-shirts.<\/p>\nCreate Word template<\/s>. This week’s layoffs brought a realization to the fore — there’s no documentation at work on how to do what I do, except for a really<\/i> old manual that was cobbled together. And what I do is<\/i> rather vital to the company, and there’s no one else that does what I do. Thus, over the next month or two, I’m going to put together documentation — a Page One Rewrite of that old manual, basically — for what I do and how I do it.<\/p>\nTranscribe interview<\/s>. A colleague interviewed a major writer a few weeks ago, and she needed some back-up on getting the interview transcribed. I’d said I’d handle that. I’d planned<\/i> to do that on Tuesday of this week, but a rush project dropped in my lap which killed Tuesday deader than Marley’s ghost. I need to have it cleaned up and turned in at work on Monday.<\/p>\n