Thursday, 29 January 2009

Is it Thursday Already?

I can’t quite believe how quickly this week has gone. I suppose all the running around I’ve done this week is the reason for it having flown by – well, from my perspective at least. It’s just been one thing after another quite honestly. And the piles of work on my desk to not seem to have gotten any smaller despite my going ten-to-the-dozen. If anything, they’ve gotten bigger. Still, at least we got paid this week. Of course, I run payroll, so getting paid involves more work for me – but that’s one job I’m more than happy to do.

Running around trying to get an online web conference sorted when the technical problems are at the other end – isn’t. I’m supposed to be the “Accounts Manager”, so why do I end up doing IT as well?

Sorry, moan over.

On a different topic, I’m chuffed by the spike in website visits I’ve had this week. I guess it’s proof that freshening things up often pays dividends. All I need to do now is translate those visits into book sales. Of course, I’d guess the majority of visits were prompted by the promise of a free book, and my Google stats holds that out to be true because the number of hits on the “Free Stories” page is pretty much the same as the homepage hits. So hopefully, people have downloaded Reunion and will now read it, love it and go out and buy Charlotte’s Secret, Lost&Found and wait eagerly for Kissed by a Rose.

Hey, it’s nice to be an optimist about some things.

Of course, this leaves me a dilemma – do I spend time making amendments to the website, or working on my WIP. Or Blogging. Or Promoting. The demands on my “Free Time” are considerable. “Free Time” is, of course, defined as time when I’m not doing the day job or spending time with my family.

So, I’ll leave you with today’s useless fact. I saw it on Twitter and had to retweet it and now I’m blogging it too. did you know that 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 ?

Told you it was useless. Aren’t i sad?

Today's Tweets

Tweet, Tweet, Here's a list of all my twitter postings in the last 24 hours.
  • 11:54 @ladlem I wish.
  • 11:55 Now Loud Twitter has shipped my tweets at a totally random time! What?
  • 12:11 Had a nice spike in website visitors yesterday after some promotion on the yahoo groups.
  • 12:42 On the Blog : Today's Tweets tinyurl.com/b849pb
  • 12:42 On the Blog : And Then the Shit the the Fan tinyurl.com/agca4g
  • 13:41 I know I say this a lot, but I really have had enough of today. I'll be glad when it's over
  • 13:55 Just added ping.fm to my account and testing it
  • 14:03 Cool! ping.fm works great. It changes my MySpace status with each tweet. Great huh?
  • 16:07 Just sent out my first "Credit Control" letter in MY name - so now i'll get the client asking after ME! Bugger.
  • 16:08 @emily83176 You can have cold. I don't want to think about the crap coming out of my nose right now.
  • 16:29 Had a really bad day today. might take up all my pent up frustration and channel it into some writing for the last half hour.
  • 16:40 why is it people can be shitty to me - but then moan when I'm shitty back?
  • 17:15 Must remember to get petrol on the way home.
  • 22:20 @Gazmaz You're right, that is a useless fact. Good one though.
  • 22:21 Retweeting @Gazmaz: Random / useless facts : 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
  • 22:22 WAtching "Life on Mars" S1 Ep2. Love this stuff.
  • 22:54 @Alessia_Brio Wine Good. Wine Very good. Me want some too.
  • 08:51 @Alessia_Brio I was up late working on a new stroy. Missed your reply thou' I was in bed. lol
  • 08:53 Morning world.
  • 09:14 According to the Stats, my webby has had over 100 page views in just 2 days. I know it's not mega amounts, but it's good for me.
  • 09:27 In meetings most fo the orning now.
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009

And Then the Shit the the Fan

I’m am having a seriously bad day today. Traffic problems this morning meant I travelled about two and half miles, stop/start, in half an hour. Which really set me up for the day.

Next, LoudTwitter has failed to ship yesterday’s twitter tweets to my blogs, which isn’t the end of the world but is a bit annoying. Last time that happened it took about a month to get fixed.

Then there are work issues. Stress. Stress. Stress. And to make it worse I’m taking it out on my poor assistant who really doesn’t deserve it. I’m turning into the kind of boss I hate. Bugger.

People keep asking me to do stupid jobs which means I’m not ploughing my through the jobs I need to do.

And to top it all off, my Man-Flu is at the stage where my nose is blocked because what’s coming out of it when I blow it is thick, green and gloopy. I swear, you could probably feed a small African tribe with what’s coming out of my nose. It might not be very flavoursome though.

So, all in all, I’m a tad pissed off today. I’m glad it’s lunchtime.

Today's Tweets

Tweet, Tweet, Here's a list of all my twitter postings in the last 24 hours.
  • 7:59 Need my fog lights on this morning!
  • 8:52 @emily83176 @Cassixx - My kind of girls!
  • 8:43Damn it was foggy on the way in this morning! And yet still cars didn't have fog lights on - or in one case, any lights on at all. Dickheads
  • 8:43 Website is still not working! Bugger
  • 8:43 Time to find a new host.
  • 8:53 @Cassixx @emily83176 Oh my god now i have to spend a day at work thinking of what you two might get up to in July. I feel a story coming on
  • 8:54 And now my Website seems to be working. Am I going nuts?
  • 9:17 @Cassixx as if. I have a feeling I won't be able to walk around the office much today - if you know what i mean
  • 9:40 Do you ever find you've got SOOOOO much to do, you don't know where to start?
  • 9:50 I've got "write offs", invoices to pay, estate accounts to do, loads of filing, the plumbers in, a guy is putting a sign on the door
  • 10:52 Finally - thewater supply has been fixed.
  • 11:08 @Alessia_Brio Positive Mental Attitude - Good one. let's hope it works.
  • 12:07 Lunchtime!
  • 12:43 Stephen Fry on Twitter - is.gd/heGd - Good Vid, but you might not be able to see it from outside the UK
  • 12:55 Interesting opinion on The Premier League. - is.gd/ho0e
  • 13:06 @Alessia_Brio I find "Shrek, Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third" very useful on days like those.
  • 13:22 From my website - "My characters use industrial language and often engage in activities that you wouldn't want your mother to read about."
  • 13:24 From my Website - "If you are offended by body parts doing things to other body parts, I suggest you point your browser to another website"
  • 13:29 @MaXsiM I had to shorten it for Twitter. Read it in full on the site - is.gd/fF4P
  • 14:02 @Jaye_Valentine lol. i was going to say "swear like troopers" instead.
  • 14:03 @MaXsiM Glad you enjoyed it. If you like that one - try the "Ladz" series.
  • 14:29 Crazy idea - should I post one of my 300 word Flash stories via Twitter? Might take a few posts.
  • 16:25 @PortiaDaCosta Love Poirot
  • 16:26 Just writing a blog entry before the day endds
  • 16:33 just fixed a printer problem with the magic "oos" - on/off switch.
  • 16:43 On the Blog : More Website updates tinyurl.com/argmzr
  • 17:01 just had a meeting with the boss. Now I'm off home.
  • 17:11 MySpace blogs are pissing about and won't 'copy/paste' properly. Keeps putting random carriage returns in the text. Very annoying
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Tuesday, 27 January 2009

More Website updates

If you’ve been following my Tweets you’ll have noticed that last night I had a lot of trouble uploading the updates to my website to my host’s server. And then when they were updated, the bloody server wouldn’t serve the pages and i couldn’t access my site.

to say I was livid is somewhat of an understatement.

Thankfully, the site seems to be working today – albeit slowly. That said, I’m checking the site as we speak and it isn’t loading at all. It worked this morning while I was looking at another host’s package (ohh err, Misses) so maybe they knew I was checking out the competition and started working as a result.

I’ve had a few people today tell me they’ve visited the site and a few who told me they enjoyed some of the free stories on there – so it must be working to some extent.

I swear – the host knows I’m talking about them. Checked the site again just now and it’s fine. Freaky or what?

So, what changes prompted all this activity? Not much actually. I added links to some other authors sites – primarily fellow Phaze authors. If anyone would like their link added, by all means let me know. I also added an extract from Charlotte’s Secret and Lost & Found. I will probably add another extract from each at some point as well as doing a page for Kissed by a Rose and adding extracts for that.

All this pissing about with websites though does mean I’m not writing. Well, apart from blogging and Tweeting. An old friend of my comment the other day that I blog ‘a lot’. I wouldn’t say it was a lot. Two or three posts a day would be a lot. Even one every day might be called a lot. But i only post every few days. Yeah, sometimes I have a splurge and post ever day for a week or whatever, but not normally. Unless you count the Tweet lists, which i don’t. They get shipped automatically.

Some would consider blogging to be a waste of time when I could be writing. But I don’t. After all, writers need to write. And writing anything at all, even blogs, is good practice. Hopefully, i get all my bad habits out of the way in a blog and then when I write actually real stories, they are better for it. Hopefully.

Anyways, I’m going to shoot off and do a couple of Tank reviews.

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