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Oct. 12th, 2011 03:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupMY BRAIN IS FULL OF KNOWINGS.
I spent this morning doing informal but useful training -- mostly in budget maintenance, which I'll be sharing with BossaNova (she has to manage the salary bits, I do the rest). Fortunately nobody else knows any more about budgets than I do -- which is nothing -- so we're all in the same boat. And some of it is a little like a game of telephone; my predecessor just DID all this shit without documenting it, and the guy who's been doing it since she left mostly knows how to, but some things I can tell are getting garbled as he passes them down to me.
Every time I have a meeting I take notes, and then as soon as the meeting is done I retype the notes into the new version of the Big Book, so that they're not only cemented in my mind but explained somewhere memorable in small words as simple concepts. It's a bit like the most boring journal in history.
Still, I am finding time to at least try and whittle down my to-do list; today's project was an epub version of Other People Can Smell You, which I talk about in more detail over on Extribulum. I think perhaps the most remarkable thing is the cost-efficiency of ebooks; an epub of this book is half the cost of a paper copy and yet I make three times the profit per book as I do on the paper ones. I love paper books, but sometimes ebooks just blow my mind.
Tomorrow I'm at a professional conference, and Friday I'm doing more training, so I may be absentee during the day. Or I may livetweet the conference depending on how unintentionally hilarious it is. We shall see. Just, try not to kill each other while I'm gone...
I spent this morning doing informal but useful training -- mostly in budget maintenance, which I'll be sharing with BossaNova (she has to manage the salary bits, I do the rest). Fortunately nobody else knows any more about budgets than I do -- which is nothing -- so we're all in the same boat. And some of it is a little like a game of telephone; my predecessor just DID all this shit without documenting it, and the guy who's been doing it since she left mostly knows how to, but some things I can tell are getting garbled as he passes them down to me.
Every time I have a meeting I take notes, and then as soon as the meeting is done I retype the notes into the new version of the Big Book, so that they're not only cemented in my mind but explained somewhere memorable in small words as simple concepts. It's a bit like the most boring journal in history.
Still, I am finding time to at least try and whittle down my to-do list; today's project was an epub version of Other People Can Smell You, which I talk about in more detail over on Extribulum. I think perhaps the most remarkable thing is the cost-efficiency of ebooks; an epub of this book is half the cost of a paper copy and yet I make three times the profit per book as I do on the paper ones. I love paper books, but sometimes ebooks just blow my mind.
Tomorrow I'm at a professional conference, and Friday I'm doing more training, so I may be absentee during the day. Or I may livetweet the conference depending on how unintentionally hilarious it is. We shall see. Just, try not to kill each other while I'm gone...
