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Things get interesting...
Mar. 24th, 2011 08:55 pmI did a little digging to find out more about the outfit that claims I used a graphic of theirs without permission, and I shall reserve judgment until I hear back from them. Forewarned is, however, forearmed.
I slacked a bit today, and only completed only 5,000 (target) words of translation. More work came in, by the way, making me a happier camper, and while there is such a thing as an overfull cup, I believe it will be some time before I actually start to complain about the status quo.
I finished the Kindle version of a book by J.A. Konrath titled The List (though one Jack Kilborn shares author billing, too, which he does not in the paperback version of the book). I was put onto Konrath some little while ago by a post at some techie site that highlighted how some writers appear to be doing well selling books at places such as Amazon with the key being the low price of the goods.
The Kindle version of The List is still on sale for $2.99, and although I can see why, perhaps, it would not be the kind of book that would appeal to a traditional Clancy-Kellerman-Cussler-type publishing house, the opening chapter set a hook in me so solidly that I had to find out what happened next!
In other news, after months of getting nothing but junk faxes, I called eFax to cancel my $19.95-per-month service. And as luck would have it, as I was doing that—literally during the chat session with the eFax support guy—I finally had a genuine need to send a fax.
As it turns out, there are apparently a couple of places on the 'net that'll let you send occasional faxes for free, but I needed to send mine to France, and I was just about set to jump over to a service that charged something like $5 per month for a reasonable send/receive plan when the eFax support guy made me a pretty sweet deal that lets me keep my old number (for whatever that's worth, as nothing of value has arrived there in—easily—a year) for less than the prospective new service was going to charge.
On the way home from the grocery store today, I grabbed a copy of The Tourist from the Redbox. Now, to go off and see if I wasted a dollar!
Cheers...
I slacked a bit today, and only completed only 5,000 (target) words of translation. More work came in, by the way, making me a happier camper, and while there is such a thing as an overfull cup, I believe it will be some time before I actually start to complain about the status quo.
I finished the Kindle version of a book by J.A. Konrath titled The List (though one Jack Kilborn shares author billing, too, which he does not in the paperback version of the book). I was put onto Konrath some little while ago by a post at some techie site that highlighted how some writers appear to be doing well selling books at places such as Amazon with the key being the low price of the goods.
The Kindle version of The List is still on sale for $2.99, and although I can see why, perhaps, it would not be the kind of book that would appeal to a traditional Clancy-Kellerman-Cussler-type publishing house, the opening chapter set a hook in me so solidly that I had to find out what happened next!
In other news, after months of getting nothing but junk faxes, I called eFax to cancel my $19.95-per-month service. And as luck would have it, as I was doing that—literally during the chat session with the eFax support guy—I finally had a genuine need to send a fax.
As it turns out, there are apparently a couple of places on the 'net that'll let you send occasional faxes for free, but I needed to send mine to France, and I was just about set to jump over to a service that charged something like $5 per month for a reasonable send/receive plan when the eFax support guy made me a pretty sweet deal that lets me keep my old number (for whatever that's worth, as nothing of value has arrived there in—easily—a year) for less than the prospective new service was going to charge.
On the way home from the grocery store today, I grabbed a copy of The Tourist from the Redbox. Now, to go off and see if I wasted a dollar!
Cheers...
