Back to work

[rolanni]

Well, that was a longer break than I wanted or needed. I think that's three unexpected and time-consuming events over and done with, though, so we ought to be set for a while again.

Today's mail brought the countersigned contract for a mixed bag of Sharon Lee titles, coming soon to a Fictionwise near you. I need to do some converting, formatting and whatnot in my abundant free time. Watch this space for news of availability.

Took my new car in for a safety check this morning after gym, just to, yanno, be sure. Everything's gomecki, though I did receive distant early warning of a brake job that will probably need doing in the next 10,000 miles or so. Since the reason for this car's inclusion in our small family is to transport Rolanni to and from work, a total of 24 miles a day, five days a week, with maybe some short side-trips to the grocery store, 10,000 miles is a good few months of motoring.

Maine DOT still hasn't received the registration information from my town office -- they advise me to check back in 30-60 days. Maine DOT is the entity from which I must obtain my vanity plates, but they won't fork over unless they have a record of the car from the town. The car was registered with the town last Monday, the data duly entered into a computer. Help me out, here, it takes thirty days to upload the transactions from the town office to the Big DOT Computer in Augusta?

What an age we live in.

It rained all day here, which was good; and kinzel and I let Mozart talk us into having a nap. Which was also good.


Progress on Duainfey

21,978 / 100,000 (22.0%)

Comments

Registration delay

[(Anonymous)]

Hey Rolanni, guess you didn't know that the Second Life Lag Monster had attacked Real Life? Pretty soon the whole world will be made up of little gray squares... Shawna

[sraun]

Ooh, fictionwise! Multiformat or Secure? (hoping the answer is Multiformat).

I'll buy them the Monday fictionwise tells me they're available!

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Help me out, here, it takes thirty days to upload the transactions from the town office to the Big DOT Computer in Augusta?
Well, actually, it probably only takes minutes (or less) to upload the transactions. But consider.

You registered on Monday. But somoene has to verify the entry, and they only work on Thursdays, so there goes a week. And then there's the person who knows how to certify the data upload is ready for transfer, they only work on alternating Wednesdays, so there's another week. But at the Big DOT Computer in Augusta, well, the person who can initiate the upload only okays them on the last day of each month, so the odds are that it will be a month or more before they call for an upload. And then there's the verification on their end that the data is complete and rror-free. If that fails, like that missing "e," well, they just have to ask for another upload - next month. And as for getting someone to sign off on the vanity plates, we have to have someone scan the names to make sure they aren't naughty, and that takes a while, too.

So you see, 30 days is the earliest that the computer upload might be complete. It's all because of those darn computers, you know. It's because the speed-of-light slows them down (I kid you not, I have had someone try to tell me that computer transfers were slow because of that - and I was speechless in response. :-)

What if you filled out the application for the work space using what you think the vanity plates will be?

Re: Registration delay

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

And they're all made out of ticky-tacky,
and they all look just the same.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

It's because the speed-of-light slows them down (I kid you not, I have had someone try to tell me that computer transfers were slow because of that - and I was speechless in response. :-)

Oh. That explains SO much...

What if you filled out the application for the work space using what you think the vanity plates will be?

As it turns out, College Security has run into this before. I have a sticker registered under the current, hopefully temporary, license number. When the vanity plates come in, all I have to do is drop them an email and they'll change the card.

[gilraen2.livejournal.com]

since you now have a car perhaps you could DRIVE to Augusta and do the registration there directly? faster than a speeding data line?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

since you now have a car perhaps you could DRIVE to Augusta and do the registration there directly?

I could, of course, but It's the Principle of the Thing.

[baggette.livejournal.com]

You and your principles!