whoops! (and new!reading!available!)

[lagilman]

Last night, for various reasons, I did not finally pass out and sleep until close to 3am. And so, on waking at 6, I said "sod that" and went back to sleep until 8. Which meant that my plan to be at the DMV at 8:30 came to naught. So, fine, sez I, I'll go on Thursday, and off to work I go...

Only to discover that I had no connectivity. None. Not an erg.

40 minutes on hold later, I am informed that there is a borough-wide "service interruption" and no, they have no idea when service will be restored. Thanks for nothing, Cablevision.

I am not a multitasker - I like to do one thing and then do another thing serially - but having the steady buzz of the Internet is like listening to the office around me, it takes up enough of my brainpower so that I can focus on the thing-being-done.

No email? No search engines? No war room? I find myself MORE distracted than if those things were around.

And so off to Starbucks I hie, to join every other freelancer in town (and there are a lot - the Bronx may not be as trendy as Brooklyn, but for the fiscally aware NYC freelancer, it's a great deal) in sucking down coffee and sucking down the flickering connectivity.

And in all that chaos of sorting and resettling, I almost forgot - SHIFTER'S DESTINY is out (in paperback) today! .

So, y'know, if you're looking for a fun little read about a shapeshifting unicorn, and grotesque monsters, and a young girl who can speak to animals, and a Terribly Nasty Villain, and a woman who can dream true.... this would be just your cuppa. :-)

Comments

[jesskastar.livejournal.com]

I am almost surprised that you didn't take it as a sign that DMV should be done. Though, I am sure there are reasons. Like, ya know, working for a living and all. ;)

[lagilman]

Actually, it's because if you don't get to the DMV when they first open at 8:30, your wait is going to be at least 2x as long, and it would have taken me more than half an hour to shower and get over there...

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Gaaah! I can cope without teh internetz but only by choice.

[girasole.livejournal.com]

I ended up at my local public library (all the NYPL branches have free wifi) to check email before heading out tot the tasks of the day, and texting kradical to see if he were unconnected too. It's back. It was a long day without it.
I wonder if it the whole borough was out?

[lagilman]

Well, our entire neighborhood was, based on the traffic at Starbucks... making me think it was more than just Optimum who got hit.

[lagilman]

Yeah, had I chosen to do that it would have been fine. But I had Things To Do that required email. Cranky-making.

[rwglaub.livejournal.com]

We lost power in my building for about four hours this morning. So we basically all milled around and waited for it to be fixed.

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Yay! Happy Book Day!