T -9 Minutes and Holding
Posted at 14:40:00
on Sat, September 09th 2006 by graham
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Well, the muse seems to have deserted me today, so it's back to editing the Muse manuscript instead. I got through a chapter of edits last night - the dramatic bits were okay; it was the bits in between that needed refining - and I'm now at 77 out of 333 pages edited. You can see the count on the right hand side of the page.
In-between the bursts of editing (you can only concentrate on your own prose for so long, I find, before you need to take a break) I'm watching the countdown to the shuttle launch on NASA TV. At the moment the clock is at T -9 minutes and holding, and unlike yesterday's countdown, which I was alternating with the cricket - well done to England by the way - at work, it sounds like everything is go for launch. For a sci-fi space junkie this is good news.
In other news, the non-explosive battery for my laptop arrived this morning. This is especially good timing as I'm going to be travelling down to London for work this week, and I didn't feel particularly like blowing up the train when I plugged my laptop in. The new battery charged remarkably quickly, however, which makes me somewhat suspicious. Perhaps I'm just being over-cautious but I think I might have to give it a few charge-discharge cycles before I'm sure that it's working properly. The nice people at Dell have also sent me a jiffy bag and a UPS label for the old battery, so I can get rid of it without worrying about losing any necessary or, indeed, unnecessary limbs.
And now, back to work.
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