Happy birthday, Deena!!!
For those who have seatbelt discomfort, my sister got me something that, as a non-parent, I had never even thought of: car seat strap covers. They make these ingenious little covers for car seat straps to make it cushy for the baby. Also works for delicate neck skin that gets rubbed by seatbelts. And, some designs have fun things on them. Mine has a big ladybug. Still not the most comfy thing in the world, but works pretty well and helps with rubbing my neck.
No, Typo Boy. He wasn't kidding. I have writers who must be told what our guidelines are and where the style guide is EVERY TIME they hand off a project.
Not only was he not kidding, he was also setting up an altar to worship you.
"I don't know anyone over there".
So, you're working with my faculty now? I can't tell you how many times I've had variations on that conversation -- "Can I check out a forblegezwatchit?" "We don't have a forblegezwatchit - but they have hundreds of 'em at that big help desk right down the hall." "But I'd rather check out a forblegezwatchit from you!" "Thanks. But our forblegezwatchits have the small inconvenience of NOT ACTUALLY EXISTING IN THIS OR ANY OTHER PHYSICAL PLANE."
So when my editor at the college textbook I'm writing a chapter for thanked me for being the only one of his sixty authors who always met deadlines and always followed formatting instructions he wasn't kidding?
I'm willing to bet large sums of money that he wasn't kidding.
I'll see those large sums of money and raise a sparklepony that he wasn't kidding.
I don't even know why we HAVE author guidelines.
I don't even know why we HAVE author guidelines.
So that editors have something to point to and wail.
So that editors have something to point to and wail.
I was going to say, so that editors have something to hit writers in the head with.
Someone is practicing drums a couple of doors down in a garage with the door wide open. I may need an alibi.