I got my taxes done. meh. I do get money back, so that's all to the good; last year my math skills were of the suck and - believe it or not - the IRS corrected it and send me more money than I expected.

I need to do some cleaning, but I tripped on a piece of rough sidewalk and didn't fall, but twisted my back and badly pulled the big muscle that goes up the back of the thigh into the ass. So I've been lying around with a heat patch on my ass.

the panda bear video on good stuff reminds me of that one Beastie Boys video, you know the one.

WTF? Are they counting on a wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey thing?

Yes, they do. The "timey-wimey" thing they're counting on is their editors working as long and hard and fast as necessary to get the job done.

That's not merely my cynical perception, that's pretty much verbatim from the Department Overlord.

My next one thing is a bitch. I'd rather declutter.

My next one thing is either dusting or cleaning the bathroom. And I do not want to do either one, on an epic scale.

We accept Word or LaTex files. The conversion vendors convert these files to .xml which is what we edit in, in something called "Epic".

WHAT. You edit in xml???

...I feel better now.

many pubs have been "outsourced" to being edited by the same vendors

Holy. Shit.

shrift, I like that Unfuck Your Habitat site! I can use the inspiration.

WHAT. You edit in xml???

I KNOW. It's ridiculous. I can't even describe how ridiculous it is.

...I feel better now.

Good, good. Is your company hiring?

Holy. Shit.

Yeah, that's one of the things we are not supposed to even mention to the Editors-in-Chief at the upcoming conference. For obvious reasons. We staff editors are specifically not allowed to speak up in the meeting.

Good, good. Is your company hiring?

Ahahahaha. No, we aren't even replacing my co-worker who died. We're cut so close to the bone it's comical.

Timelies all!

My folks are here, so the weekend plans involve them. Haven't figured out where we will take them for touristy stuff tomorrow. (Sunday is meals with Gary's folks-brunch with his mom and dinner with his dad and step-mom)

We outsourced final editing and printing of our magazine; the first company pretty much drove it into the ground. We've started with a new company and it's better ... it's now a quarterly journal and the content is much better (they've arranged for some freelance writers to do some sections) although advertising remains in a slump. The point of this is that they insist on receiving all materials two months before they hand it over to their production people. Jeepers - when we did it in-house I'd have two or three WEEKS to copyedit, lay out, do the pre-press work, and get it uploaded to the printer.

Jeepers - when we did it in-house I'd have two or three WEEKS to copyedit, lay out, do the pre-press work, and get it uploaded to the printer.

Right-o, Toddson. That's where we're headed.