Okay, we’re not doing that<\/i> again.<\/p>\n
I brought work home, because I needed to get this particular project done today<\/i>.<\/p>\n
A complex idea was floated at the production meeting on Friday. And for a variety of reasons, that complex idea would not work. However, I proposed a similar<\/i> idea that is actually useful<\/i> to what Diamond does and relevant to our present business.<\/p>\n
Then a related idea got thrown into the mix.<\/p>\n
My simple idea remains, well, simple<\/i>. It takes an existing spreadsheet, performs some surgery, reformats it with HTML tags, and it’s done.<\/p>\n
The related idea.<\/p>\n
It takes a document that I produce every month that’s usually between eight and ten pages single-spaced. And triples its length. The reason? The document I’m starting with is extremely spare with data. This new document needs titles and item codes added to it. It also needed a complete rewrite for consistency.<\/p>\n
So, I put in four hours on the document this afternoon, slapped it on the flash drive, grabbed a copy of the June Order Form for cross-reference purposes, and worked on it more tonight.<\/p>\n
Technically, I had all day tomorrow to work on this document. And, yes, I’ll still need to do some work on it tomorrow — specifically, I need to write some intro and exit text, and link artwork to the article in the CMS. However, that’s a fifteen minute job at most. I can budget that into my day.<\/p>\n
The two hours I spent on it tonight? The four hours I spent on it this afternoon? I didn’t have the time budget for that<\/i>.<\/p>\n
On the plus side…<\/p>\n
After a sequence of nastygrams of increasing stridency, it was impressed upon me that I absolutely had<\/i> to take some vacation time lest I lose it. In my two years of employment with Diamond, I have taken one<\/b> vacation day.<\/p>\n
Well, I’m still<\/i> losing some vacation time due to arcane corporate rules.<\/p>\n
However, beginning 6 o’clock on the 12th, I’m on vacation. I also get paid out for an additional twenty-four hours of vacation. And I’m forfeiting twenty-four hours.<\/p>\n
They would have preferred if I had taken additional vacation time next week, but that was impossible. Without putting too fine a point on it, the comics industry would have collapsed had that happened. You think I joke. I don’t. Not one bit.<\/p>\n
That’s a round-up of my work day.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, I got a lot of reading done on the train. Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark<\/i>, which reads very<\/i> quickly. I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting from the book, but it wasn’t at all what I got. I’m still processing this. I will say that I was captivated by Auster’s prose style, I found some passages of the book (particularly a lengthy conversation that begins about three-quarters of the way through the book) emotionally forceful (and, at times, wrenching). I have to ponder this some more. It’s very good, and not at all what I thought it would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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