{"id":1162,"date":"2007-03-30T21:57:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T03:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/30\/1647-spam-messages-later\/"},"modified":"2017-02-04T23:17:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T05:17:56","slug":"1647-spam-messages-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/1647-spam-messages-later\/","title":{"rendered":"1647 Spam Messages Later&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And that was just for today.  Monica captured a great letter to a product manager in her blog meanderings.  If you&#8217;re a woman, I can&#8217;t imagine you not being able to relate to the letter.  If you&#8217;re a man, well, you&#8217;ll probably recognize some signs.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a been a busy week at work &#8212; I had something I had to get done by Monday, so I didn&#8217;t get home until after nine tonight.  One of those number crunching things where every set of figures you compile is just a few off from what it should be, but you&#8217;re not completely certain what it really should be.  Finally, after counting the same things four or five different ways sixteen different times, I got all the numbers to agree.  I quickly updated the slides.  Then, while filling in the table I had to create, the second set of numbers kept coming up two short.  Finally, after six times counting cross ways, I found where I&#8217;d forgotten to include a two in one of the columns, and everything came out.   Ugh. Strangely, I like working with columns and rows of information and making it match up.  In a similar vein, accounting has never appealed to me.  Maybe that&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve never taken an accounting class.  Before I&#8217;d read a Crusie romance novel, the romance genre had never appealed to me either.  There may be a lesson somewhere in that observation.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s up with April (nearly 16) over at For Better or For Worse?  Start with Monday&#8217;s strip and read through to today.<\/p>\n<p>Holly&#8217;s starting work on the forthcoming <em>Create A Plot Clinic<\/em>.  She&#8217;s asked writers to post what their plotting problems are to help her focus the book toward things you need.  <a href=\"https:\/\/hollylisle.com\/time-for-your-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\">Go tell her what your plotting bugaboos are<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I&#8217;ll be gone for a couple of days starting Sunday.  I want to help my tax preparer celebrate his birthday, and I need to sign the forms.  It&#8217;s a quick in and out trip, so you&#8217;ll hardly notice I&#8217;m gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And that was just for today. Monica captured a great letter to a product manager in her blog meanderings. If you&#8217;re a woman, I can&#8217;t imagine you not being able to relate to the letter. If you&#8217;re a man, well, you&#8217;ll probably recognize some signs. It&#8217;s a been a busy <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/1647-spam-messages-later\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[89,47,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silly-stuff","category-work","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}