A2K time zones: What's the time where you are & what are you up to?

23：34 Shenzhen,
about to make the night rounds, then brush my teeth and shower briefly and go to bed.

5:58 AM in St. Pete, just got home from the gym, time to get ready for work, too bad its not Friday

22：49， jogged outside, browsed the web, about to go to bed.

It's 9:35 PM in St. Pete, time for me to get to bed, have to get up at 5am, night

quarter to 9 pm.

on the prairie.

after finishing up my truck repairs and repairing the mower tire, I mowed the chicken coop, and the rest of my side yard that did not get mowed when I cut the tire.

popped 2 potatoes in the toaster oven, and Ima head outside to cut down some more rogue elm trees by spotlight...

with the big axe.

9:50 p.m. Toronto
back from a hectic round of errands + a great catch up with a dance idol and friend
spoke to hamburgboy on the phone when I got home
eating a weird combo of food, mostly because it's not unhealthy and it was fast
need to get a normal amount of sleep tonight

nighty night you sweet thang

1.58pm on Wednesday. Home recovering from a pain relieving procedure. Have to walk into the city soon for an appointment.

Happy to not be at work!

Sunday, April Fools Day, 2:32 pm

It's a lovely autumn day here.
Just taking a wee break from my backyard pruning activities.
My, how trees & shrubs can grow (like mad!) in such a short time!
Luckily for me, my friend C popped in .... & was happy climb the Big Ladder to prune the very top scraggly bits from my mandarin tree.
I'm a wuss about heights. She isn't.
About to take a stroll down to the shops in a minute. I have a yoghurt craving!
Then back to pruning.

3:16 a.m. on Sunday on April 1, 2012. I'm working. Also doing a lot of muttering. Some people shouldn't write books. The author of this one is one of them.

My commiserations, Roberta.
You poor thing.
I guess you're basically re-writing a very crappy book to make it half-acceptable?
You should get a lotta $$$$ if you can pull this off!
That's what I think.

Not rewriting, olga. Rewriting (developmental editing) is not what I was hired for and not what I'm doing. I'm fixing blatant mistakes--subject verb agreement (don't ask), missing commas (also don't ask), misuse of prepositions (still don't ask), and the occasional screwy mistake. I'm making the language a little clearer and trying to figure out what level the heads are.

These are not uncommon problems. The book shouldn't be published because the whole thing could be a magazine article. The rest is filler.

Ooops. Kvetching on the time zone thread. I'm incorrigible. Sorry. Return to time zones and pretend I wasn't here.

Well its 6AM and Ive been up since about 4AM EDT. Im doing the midnite to 6 shift to feed our new little bottle lambs. We have only 6 this year because the winter was less harsh and the mothers didnt go into retention.
The bottle lambs have no class, they will bust right through anything to get a bottle of milk and be covered with it when they are done. These bottle nipples are too big for the lambs, they run like spigots.

Is this a novel or a non-fiction your working on ? I get a kick out of hearing your "Peons of praises" mistakes. As a major member of Malaprop MEn of Manheim I celebrate and strongly urge the contiued use of bad prose (Im sorta the Om SIg Dave of malapropity)

Sorry, Boida.
But it sounds rather like it to me. To a point, anyway.
Making really crappy writing appear sort of acceptable.

FM, I found ice flow in this one. Sigh. Not the worst, but not right. I've never worked on fiction. This is a business book.

Olga, I'm telling you. Not even close to a rewrite. Fixing mistakes is not a rewrite. I haven't done a rewrite in ages. Not a lot of publishers that I know of do them anymore. Maybe schoolbooks. But not this stuff.

Hey time zone people. Resume zoning the time.

OK, possum.

Not a rewrite, but an excruciating fixing-up if mistakes exercise.

Either way, you have my utmost sympathy.

Good lord you work and have some other worries and forget, shall I send a text to my fiance? Like I've gone out, or something as it's April's fools? No that would be so mean.

I'm liking talking here, it's nice... No April Fools....

Yup.
I don't believe April Fools Day should interfere with our normal relations with our nearests & dearests, FS.

It’s 7:58 AM in St. Pete. We just finished breakfast. I was thinking it would be nice to get the bikes out of the garage and go on a nice long bike ride but I don’t think Antonio could keep up.