A good work day, a good workout

On Thursday, my boss had said that she'd want to go over the corrections to a manuscript I'd edited. She made a point of assuring me then that I had done a basically good job, and that this was details. We did that this morning (she hadn't finished looking at the manuscript until sometime over the weekend). There was a lot of little stuff, formatting issues and such; she's happy with the content and the grade level. She also reiterated that she's pleased with my work, and added that we need to be especially careful because "we've lost our safety net." That would be me in my role as copyeditor and proofreader. (There's one other person there who's reasonably good at science copyedits, but he's very good at math, and they need him there.) It was good to be told that I'm already a good editor. (Not that I doubted that, exactly, but manuscript editing is a somewhat different skill, and having a boss who recognizes I'm good at it is useful and reassuring.)

The rest of the workday went smoothly and undramatically, until a little after 5, when I lost my connection to the server. When I went to tell the IT guy, I had to explain that this isn't a permissions issue, I couldn't see anything on that server. He tested it himself and said "Thank you." When it didn't come back up in a few more minutes, I decided to leave a little early for the gym.

The workout did have a moment of "for best results, avoid doing stupid things," so I reduced the weight significantly on the leg press. My knees didn't hurt at the lower weight, so I went ahead with that, and did lower weights on some other stuff, not all of it related. ( details )

A good work day, a good workout

On Thursday, my boss had said that she'd want to go over the corrections to a manuscript I'd edited. She made a point of assuring me then that I had done a basically good job, and that this was details. We did that this morning (she hadn't finished looking at the manuscript until sometime over the weekend). There was a lot of little stuff, formatting issues and such; she's happy with the content and the grade level. She also reiterated that she's pleased with my work, and added that we need to be especially careful because "we've lost our safety net." That would be me in my role as copyeditor and proofreader. (There's one other person there who's reasonably good at science copyedits, but he's very good at math, and they need him there.) It was good to be told that I'm already a good editor. (Not that I doubted that, exactly, but manuscript editing is a somewhat different skill, and having a boss who recognizes I'm good at it is useful and reassuring.)

The rest of the workday went smoothly and undramatically, until a little after 5, when I lost my connection to the server. When I went to tell the IT guy, I had to explain that this isn't a permissions issue, I couldn't see anything on that server. He tested it himself and said "Thank you." When it didn't come back up in a few more minutes, I decided to leave a little early for the gym.

The workout did have a moment of "for best results, avoid doing stupid things," so I reduced the weight significantly on the leg press. My knees didn't hurt at the lower weight, so I went ahead with that, and did lower weights on some other stuff, not all of it related. ( details )