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wren_kt7oz) wrote2012-10-30 08:11 am
wren_kt7oz) wrote2012-10-30 08:11 am
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Halloween drabble
Hi everyone
Sorry I've been MIA for the past couple of weeks. The little 'calm before the storm' period in my worklife has ended and the storm has hit with a vengeance. I'm now in the middle of two major projects and have been working the most ridiculous hours - not just long hours, but at weird times of the day and night and even weekends. (To give you an idea, yesterday I started work at 3.00 pm and on Thursday I start work at 3.30am.)
Anyway, just wanted to give a heads up that I will be posting my "traditional" BJ Halloween fic in the next day or so. It's the 10th year running that I've done this, so that's kind of fun ... and scary, really. Just like Halloween itself. *g*
As an appetizer, here is a little Halloween drabble that came to me last night during the weekly conference call.
Prompt words were: slide, candy, broom.
Trick or Treat
Justin's tempted to let it slide. He knows it's not likely any kid will dare to trek up the stairs and knock on the door of the man they probably regard as scarier than Vlad himself.
But it's the principle of the thing. If some brave (or stupid) kid does come knocking, Justin wants to be sure there's candy ready for them.
Brian's all for giving them a "trick" rather than a "treat", and chasing them off with a broom.
So they compromise.
Candy is made available.
But the decorations up the stairs and on their landing are really scary.
.
Sorry I've been MIA for the past couple of weeks. The little 'calm before the storm' period in my worklife has ended and the storm has hit with a vengeance. I'm now in the middle of two major projects and have been working the most ridiculous hours - not just long hours, but at weird times of the day and night and even weekends. (To give you an idea, yesterday I started work at 3.00 pm and on Thursday I start work at 3.30am.)
Anyway, just wanted to give a heads up that I will be posting my "traditional" BJ Halloween fic in the next day or so. It's the 10th year running that I've done this, so that's kind of fun ... and scary, really. Just like Halloween itself. *g*
As an appetizer, here is a little Halloween drabble that came to me last night during the weekly conference call.
Prompt words were: slide, candy, broom.
Trick or Treat
Justin's tempted to let it slide. He knows it's not likely any kid will dare to trek up the stairs and knock on the door of the man they probably regard as scarier than Vlad himself.
But it's the principle of the thing. If some brave (or stupid) kid does come knocking, Justin wants to be sure there's candy ready for them.
Brian's all for giving them a "trick" rather than a "treat", and chasing them off with a broom.
So they compromise.
Candy is made available.
But the decorations up the stairs and on their landing are really scary.
.
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I'm so sorry about that weekend. I wound up having to run a training session in the middle of the night on Saturday night (seriously, don't ask) and another early Sunday morning. By the time I'd finished I was completely wiped out and blush to admit that I forgot all about our lunch. I actually went home and switched everything off and slept.
My life at the moment is just ... well, let's just say I ran one webinar for some people in the UK on Monday night from 9pm to 11pm got home around midnight and to sleep about 2 am, worked a normal day shift the next two days then ran another webinar from 4am-6am on Thursday morning which meant getting up at 2.30. It's just bizarre. That part will settle down in the next week or so, but then it will be 10 and 12 hour days just trying to get through the workload to have all the damned training manuals ready to go to print by Christmas. It's three different manuals, all of which have to be translated into 16 different languages, and then get formatted and have all their localisations translated and inserted. It's nearly 60 all up, because while I can use the French and Dutch translations for Belgium as well as the English, and I can use the German translation for Austria and the French and German for Switzerland, each country has different localisations required. AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Oh, and that doesn't take into account the online training package, or the certification test - also each in 16 languages.
It doesn't bear thinking about.
Anyway, I'm just really sorry. I should have known that the storm was about to hit, but I didn't even know that I would need to run the emergency webinars till the end of that week. They'd run out of trained auditors and needed to get some trained in a hurry so that we could close the market.
*sigh*
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