{"id":6687,"date":"2011-05-26T21:58:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T01:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6687"},"modified":"2011-05-26T21:58:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T01:58:07","slug":"working-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6687","title":{"rendered":"Working Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/5759880567\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5149\/5759880567_0301e9b4f4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today started out not particularly busy, what with my having handed over the manuscript I&#8217;ve been working on since Friday and moved it off of my desk. But then this thing that I&#8217;ve been waiting to happen, a fix of a book record in our system that would allow me build the record for a new edition of the book (and two other accompanying books), happened. And so I had to build the records for those, probably getting half of the data entry and tabs I need to select wrong, while I pulled information from the proposal and reviews, building a proposal I can share with the group, and a profit and loss estimate, and all the things that need to be done before we can actually offer a contract. Plus, there were a few other projects that needed tending to, and a brand new one to add to the mix.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m unlikely to finish any of it tomorrow, not least of all because the office is closing early for the long weekend. But hopefully I can make a sizable dent in it and have a contract out to the author before the middle of June.<\/p>\n<p>By which point that <i>other<\/i> book record that needs to be fixed for the same reason, the one that&#8217;s been keeping me from working on <i>it<\/i>, will be fixed, and I&#8217;ll have to start working on that as well.<\/p>\n<p>Making books isn&#8217;t always fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today started out not particularly busy, what with my having handed over the manuscript I&#8217;ve been working on since Friday and moved it off of my desk. But then this thing that I&#8217;ve been waiting to happen, a fix of a book record in our system that would allow me build the record for a &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6687\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,11,52],"class_list":["post-6687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal","tag-publishing","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}