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Life is Good.
May. 2nd, 2011 01:38 amI've been at the new job for a month now, and life is very good. :) It's very nice to go back to doing whatever I want in the process of getting stuff done, as that's how I do my best work. Hopefully the new boss will agree. He's about as disorganized and absentminded as my previous boss, which is just fine with me.
Other things I'm doing... well, I found a local yoga place similar to the one in Savannah, so I'm back to doing that once a week or so. I found a local tabletop group, and now I'm in a weekly Savage Worlds game. :D Roleplayers are the world's most awesomest people. I also signed up to volunteer for helping sea turtles nest on the beaches next to where I work. Looking forward to it; I'm signed up to do my first beach walk on Friday morning. We'll see how it goes.
In writing news, well, let's just say that Google's mid-April algorithm change had exactly the opposite effect of the algorithm change they did in March. Bright Hub saw some crashing and burning. Mayhem ensued. Lots of panic and flailing and site-self-scrutiny. Lots of motivation suddenly to clear out all the crappy articles and ramp way up on quality control. Woot.
Aside from watching my articles lose views, I wasn't really affected. I'd guess that my total viewcounts for April are probably what they would've been if neither of the last two algorithm changes had happened. Everything on my list is still in roughly the same order as they've always been. I've got one article slated for deletion and one under review. In both cases, the keywords were picked by the editors, and they were bad picks. Other people are losing dozens. I'm glad they're finally raising the quality standards to something approaching my standards for my own articles.
So what did I do, aside from watching other people panic and flail? Not a whole lot. I spent the month settling into my new life. :) But I did write an intro blurb about Biological Science, and I just submitted a new Backyard Monsters article to go with the first one (it's not up yet).
Meanwhile, no progress whatsoever on the fiction front, alas. Now that I've got stuff scheduled out though, what with work, yoga, tabletop, sea turtles, and Bright Hub tinkering, I'll hopefully manage to fit it in somewhere. SFFMuse used to do a lengthy event called Summer Fun Run intended as a warmup for Nanowrimo that happens over the summer. SFFMuse is kind of dead at the moment, but I might try to coerce a couple other people into doing a Summer Fun Run anyhow.
Other things I'm doing... well, I found a local yoga place similar to the one in Savannah, so I'm back to doing that once a week or so. I found a local tabletop group, and now I'm in a weekly Savage Worlds game. :D Roleplayers are the world's most awesomest people. I also signed up to volunteer for helping sea turtles nest on the beaches next to where I work. Looking forward to it; I'm signed up to do my first beach walk on Friday morning. We'll see how it goes.
In writing news, well, let's just say that Google's mid-April algorithm change had exactly the opposite effect of the algorithm change they did in March. Bright Hub saw some crashing and burning. Mayhem ensued. Lots of panic and flailing and site-self-scrutiny. Lots of motivation suddenly to clear out all the crappy articles and ramp way up on quality control. Woot.
Aside from watching my articles lose views, I wasn't really affected. I'd guess that my total viewcounts for April are probably what they would've been if neither of the last two algorithm changes had happened. Everything on my list is still in roughly the same order as they've always been. I've got one article slated for deletion and one under review. In both cases, the keywords were picked by the editors, and they were bad picks. Other people are losing dozens. I'm glad they're finally raising the quality standards to something approaching my standards for my own articles.
So what did I do, aside from watching other people panic and flail? Not a whole lot. I spent the month settling into my new life. :) But I did write an intro blurb about Biological Science, and I just submitted a new Backyard Monsters article to go with the first one (it's not up yet).
Meanwhile, no progress whatsoever on the fiction front, alas. Now that I've got stuff scheduled out though, what with work, yoga, tabletop, sea turtles, and Bright Hub tinkering, I'll hopefully manage to fit it in somewhere. SFFMuse used to do a lengthy event called Summer Fun Run intended as a warmup for Nanowrimo that happens over the summer. SFFMuse is kind of dead at the moment, but I might try to coerce a couple other people into doing a Summer Fun Run anyhow.
