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Another productive day
Jul. 31st, 2002 03:47 pmI'm having a spate of productivity. This is a good thing, because work is nuts between now and the end of September, and if I'm not productive now, I'm gonna be sunk come the end of August. My book is all ready for tech review, and I'm going to send it out for review tomorrow.
Turns out the book is growing out of control. It's at 648 pages without the generated files (Table of Contents, List of Tables, List of Figures, and Index). So the lead editor and I have decided to take the four appendices (I'm still fighting the war against "appendixes") and put them into a separate volume. I wanted to call that book "Other Random Crap," but - though my boss, my uber boss, and the editor loved the idea - I didn't think it would fly with our Marketing department. So I came up with a better, though less descriptive title. Ah, well...
Oh...and I found an ophthalmologist that I like. I'd decided to change eye doctors, because the one I've been seeing since I was 8 moved his practice to New Hampshire. Getting to his old office was enough of a shlep; going across state lines to get my eyes checked was a bit much. So - with much trepidation - I picked one randomly from the directory provided by my HMO. The one I chose was a youngish woman (graduated med school in 1988) whose office is a 10 minute walk from home. All good things. And I liked her. She was very efficient, but still very friendly, and she actually took me exactly at my appointment time (something _very_ important, in my book). She doesn't do contact lens fittings, but she referred me to someone who does, so I'll do that in a couple of weeks, once I return from New York (the new glasses, however, I'll order this week for pick up when we come back from NYC).
Turns out the book is growing out of control. It's at 648 pages without the generated files (Table of Contents, List of Tables, List of Figures, and Index). So the lead editor and I have decided to take the four appendices (I'm still fighting the war against "appendixes") and put them into a separate volume. I wanted to call that book "Other Random Crap," but - though my boss, my uber boss, and the editor loved the idea - I didn't think it would fly with our Marketing department. So I came up with a better, though less descriptive title. Ah, well...
Oh...and I found an ophthalmologist that I like. I'd decided to change eye doctors, because the one I've been seeing since I was 8 moved his practice to New Hampshire. Getting to his old office was enough of a shlep; going across state lines to get my eyes checked was a bit much. So - with much trepidation - I picked one randomly from the directory provided by my HMO. The one I chose was a youngish woman (graduated med school in 1988) whose office is a 10 minute walk from home. All good things. And I liked her. She was very efficient, but still very friendly, and she actually took me exactly at my appointment time (something _very_ important, in my book). She doesn't do contact lens fittings, but she referred me to someone who does, so I'll do that in a couple of weeks, once I return from New York (the new glasses, however, I'll order this week for pick up when we come back from NYC).
