A couple of days ago, an old friend* of mine, Heidi, posted a PSA for her readers on her blog, The Happy Freelancer. The post, Walking Away from a Potential Client, had me reminiscing in a comment about an extremely rude potential client. I don’t know whether the universe was bent on biting me on the posterior and taking out a chunk, but I had a run in yesterday with a client over a short 350 word article. Continue reading
Category Archives: Rantings
Not Much Rejoicing Over the Bloody Weather
The weather here has been ridiculous. We seemed to have skipped winter altogether and have gone straight from fall into summer. It’s been rewminding me of a couple of scenes from Monty Python’s Search for the Holy Grail. New England is supposed to be rainy this time of year, not plaguing us with 30°C (86°F) weather! So… there has not been much rejoicing over the bloody weather:
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Gender Specific Possessive Pronouns Need to Make a Comeback
I am working on a writing project at the moment and I have come to the conclusion, once again, that I am going to make every effort possible to try to move back into using “his”, “hers”, and “its”, instead of “their” to encompass all three. That’s my goal, anyhow. I know I have a few friends who are feminists who may get upset by this. I know a couple of other women who will be livid because they were of the group who worked toward gender-neutral language. Now, I can sort of understand the issue, but as someone who works as a writer, albeit sporadically, I don’t have to like it. Continue reading
The Trials of Paying a Canadian Bill From the USA
In February, I logged into my credit card account online (the credit card company in question offers cards in both Canada and the United States) and found to my utter joy that there was an option for me to initiate a payment by inputting bank account information and initiating the payment from the credit card’s website. Finally, an option that would allow me to pay my credit card without having to jump through the Flaming Hoops of Doom! I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to do it because I was initiating the payment online via the Canadian website and trying to make the payment from an American bank account. Continue reading
Out With Drupal, In With WordPress
As I mentioned previously, I had the intent of switching blogging software from Drupal to WordPress. Several people informed me that Drupal is so much better than WordPress and, honestly, I would have stuck with it if I didn’t need any extra features that weren’t included with the base build. When I was researching blog software, I should have paid attention to the people who had issues migrating from other software to Drupal. Continue reading