And then I re-counted.
And then I freaked out.
Today is ninety-one days from the release of October Daye, book two, A Local Habitation. If I had a penny for every day remaining, I wouldn't even be able to buy a can of soda (taxes being what they are). Thanks to my little math error, I have just been dropped off a scheduling cliff, falling past "safely remote" and into "ha ha, gotcha." Yes, it's only nine days, but there's a psychological element to "one hundred" that isn't there with "ninety-one." (Although ninety-one is seven times thirteen, which is pretty awesome. That makes it a semiprime: a natural number that is the product of two prime numbers. Even when math betrays me, I love it so.)
Part of my calm, measured, perky productivity is the fact that I am really a lot more tightly scheduled than most people who haven't actually seen my planner ever realize. Losing nine days is a shock to the system that I didn't particularly need today, and while I'll recover in reasonably short order, I can't say I'm very happy right now.
Arrgh.
EDIT: Here's irony for you: I made another math error. Yesterday was ninety-one days to book release. Today is ninety days to book release. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go Xerox my head.
December 2 2009, 16:17:41 UTC 7 years ago
On the bright side, your book's coming out sooner than you thought :)
December 4 2009, 02:47:18 UTC 7 years ago
Bright sides leave me no time for sleep. :(
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December 2 2009, 17:40:47 UTC 7 years ago
<3
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December 2 2009, 18:14:41 UTC 7 years ago
Why copy that one? It's clearly broken...
Hee. "Not so far from release" has become "nearer release", that's all. And you know that nobody sticks to release dates anyway. I would say "relax", but that would be foolish in me. I shall simply say "trust the numbers" - they will get you there, even if you miscalculate.
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December 2 2009, 20:00:57 UTC 7 years ago
This can lead to some lovely humor in number theory classes, when the professor asks the class for a prime number to demonstrate some property of primes.
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December 2 2009, 20:11:33 UTC 7 years ago
Now() s right now (with a time) and Today() is today (with no time)
Excel stores the dates as numbers, and each day is 1, so if you enter a date in A1, and '=A1-100' in A2, A2 will helpfully show you the date 100 days before the date you entered.
If you enter '=A1-today()' though, you have to reformat the cell to number before you can see the number of days until that date.
Beats the heck out of counting on your fingers or chanting 'thirty days hath september...'
December 4 2009, 05:38:59 UTC 7 years ago
December 2 2009, 20:40:21 UTC 7 years ago
Xerox away if it helps...just keep your head FAR from the fax machine!
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(I usually think of them as "valid RSA keys"...)
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It'll be okay, hon. You caught this now, rather than later, which is a small blessing.
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