WOrking on my latest book, Mastering System Center Data Protection Manager 2007
, was a long process. However, Monday I got to experience my favorite part of the writing process -- getting the box from the publisher with the author's copies. There's just something cool about seeing the final physical product; I don't think I'll get tired of that feeling after my 20th, 40th, or even 100th book.
It's a good thing I have this memory to buoy my spirits; today has been a day jam-packed of small annoyances:
- I was out yesterday with a migraine (neck was jammed in tons of different places), making me super pissy. Today seems to be a ramp back down from Pissy Devin, rather than a huge improvement.
- Updating the sidebar of my blog (if you're reading this via RSS or LiveJournal feed, you won't see that sidebar) with the Amazon link was WAY harder than it really needed to be, involving having to reboot the damn blog server to get one little graphic to show up (iisreset didn't do the trick).
- Getting my new wireless headset (which I won in Sydney at the training conference) working was, again, more of a chore than it really needed to be.
Here's hoping the day gets better.