Work and Schedule Both Went Pretty Well

No spectacular breakthroughs at work this week, but still I feel satisfied.
The biggest annoyance is that as soon as I mentioned wanting to do eHows in 55 minutes each, I seemed to slow down. Today was the worst, so I’m about an hour behind in fiction (nothing I can’t catch up on but it annoys me on principle). I’m quite pleased that I spent this evening catching up on all my rewrites——there will be more, eventually, but I’m now work-free for the weekend! Well, Raleigh Public Record staff meeting Sunday, but still, it’s a nice change (I’ve been doing rewrites the past three or four weekends,IIRC).
Fiction went a little better. I did a lot of Regency research for Mage’s Masquerade, but decided I needed to take a break and let the story sit until next month. I brushed up Impossible Takes a Little Longer and sent it to the one member of my writing group who expressed interest, and a couple of friends whose opinion I would value (my regular beta-readers took a look at it some years back, so I don’t think I need to demand their time again). There’s a couple of points I’m really curious about how they’ll react, but of course I can’t ask them because that might bias them (“Hmm, he’s right, that was unconvincing now that I think about it.”).
Brain From Outer Space I completely locked up on when I tried writing early in the week. By today I thawed out again and it’s moving smoothly. Everything seems to be coming together in the plot (of course, I’ve said that before).
The schedule adjustments I mentioned earlier this week went pretty smoothly. I took my break, marked the end of the working day, didn’t push myself to keep working through breaktime … it makes a difference.
As for the week’s eHows:
•iPad Magazine Publishing Made Easy
•What Is an Illegal SMS File?
•What Is a Scrap Object File?
•What Are the Benefits of Using a Top-Down Network Design?
•Theory of Projection TV
•What Causes Reverb Noise on a Home Stereo?
•The Advantages of Dual Key Certifications
•Independent vs. Common Trip Circuit Breaker
•How to Use Your PC as an Intercom
•Cell Phones and Moving to Another State
•Receiving Donations of Laptops
•Advantages and Disadvantages of Radio-Based WLANs
•The Substitution Effect on Apple’s iPad
•How to Enter an Invoice in Oracle
•Slow Fax Transmissions
•MacBook Pro MagSafe Power Won’t Charge Battery
•What Are .Mac Files?
•How to Write a Permission Vs. Modify a Permission
•COBOL Programming Checklist