Laundry, no. That, I decided, I could do on Monday, while working from home. It would break up the monotony of the day. I didn’t really have a lot to do — just one load, my lights — so I could put it in the wash, work, put in the dryer, work, retrieve and fold, work.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
I started my day a little early — about 7:45 — and spent an hour responding to emails. Then I shaved and showered, dressed for the day (blue polo shirt, shorts, Washington Senators baseball cap), and started in on my to-do list for the day, just six items. Though, really, five, since one of the items never materialized.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The main tasks for the day were to do the liquidation lists (the standard list and the Image Comics list) and to write editorial copy for the May catalog.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Before lunch, I worked on the liquidation lists. These I could do remotely without logging into the VPN. The Image Comics list was a trickier than I’d anticipated — the macros I’d written to handle that didn’t work — so I did what I needed to do by hand. (Later I’d discovered that, had I logged into the VPN and done it there, the macros worked just fine. It was an Excel format issue, because Excel is weird.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
After I completed these, my laundry was done, so I went to the complex’s laundry facility to fold my clothes and bring them home. I like folding my laundry in the laundry room; that way, when I get back to my apartment, all I have to do is to put the laundry away. It’s ready to go, to drawers or the closet.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Even though it was mid-morning, the fog was still heavy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n In the mail I had a package — a new USB wireless adapter that would work with both Windows and Linux.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n I then spent an hour or so trying to get my computer, in Linux Mint 19.3, to connect to the office VPN, to no avail. I will need to do more research on this.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The afternoon was spent writing editorial copy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n I wrote all but three of the articles I needed to, and the only reason those three were not written is that I don’t know what I’m writing about for those. I have product titles for two of the three, but no information beyond that.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n My plan is to log in tonight, see if any of the publisher pages have appeared on the FTP server — doubtful, but you never know — and write these, if possible. Otherwise, they will have to wait to be written tomorrow.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Tomorrow, at the office.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Yes, I am planning on going into Diamond’s offices the next three days to work on the order forms. For one thing, I need access to the printers. For another, I don’t trust my remote connection enough for some of the delicate data things I have to do.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n I’ve been assured that, yes, the office is open, that a small crew will be there, and I can work unmolested.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n I’m looking forward to it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n I can do with some normalcy. And the open road.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n I redid my desk at home a little this afternoon.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n I added my TARDIS Bluetooth speaker, which I’ve been using while I’m working in the remote desktop — today, I listened to episode four<\/a> of the BBC World Service’s 13 Minutes to the Moon<\/a> season 2, about the doomed Apollo 13 mission — and a Civilization III<\/em> paperweight, which Firaxis sent me when I was an EB Games store manager many moons ago.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n This room is not as dark as it appears in photos.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200330_091731-1200x675.jpg\")
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