Y'know, it's well-nigh impossible to sleep through being walked on by a skunk. And if a person can somehow manage that feat, a snuffling nose in the ear is really the final nail in the "just five more minutes" coffin.
So yeah, four hours of sleep and I get up to launch into my day o' work. Ugh. Thank God for Adderall.
In other, less sleep-deprived news,
And Patrick and Christie have been popping over to help
Writing Stuff
Spent some time hunting around online for an Internet fax program. There's now been a couple freelance clients that have wanted me to fax contracts/confidentiality documents to them (although I think the fax machine is a relic of antiquated business practices, much like the ticker tape machine, and should in all properness be laid to rest) and I wanted to see what my "I'm not buying a fax machine, dammit" options were.
There's a bunch of online pay services where I could email them a document, they fax it over for me, and then they scan in and email me any incoming faxes, but I wanting software that would allow me to send faxes directly from my own computer over my modem since I don't foresee having enough fax needs to want to keep paying a regular fee. Plus the confidentiality and privacy issues made me a bit leery. I was contemplating a trial version of Fax Wizard, and then it occurred to me that since I'm on broadband using a Wi-Fi hookup, I don't have any way to access a standard fax protocol like a dial-up modem could. While I might be able to theoretically convert documents and send them as faxes from my cable Internet connection, I sure as heck wouldn't be able to receive them. So I gave up and emailed the client asking if they'd rather I snail-mailed the signed document to them or scanned it into a secured PDF and emailed it.
Faxes. Feh, I sez.
Also sent out a Daily Dragon "please confirm, yo!" staff email yesterday, and good thing too. I lost one of my reporters (*grumble* he had to wait until I contacted him before telling me he couldn't make it?), but I'm hopeful that
New Words:
- 1200 for a freelance gig.
- 300 on my column article for Writing-World.com.
I wanna get back to fiction *whine*. Maybe after this next batch of articles gets out the door I can return to writing stories.
Received:
- A note from Shawna at Realms of Fantasy that the taped-shut-but-empty SASE I'd received was just a mix-up and hadn't at any time contained my contract for "The Devil and Mrs. Comstock's Snickerdoodles." Whew.
- Shiny check from a freelance gig. $$$