The little rewards

Today didn't really go as planned or expected, in so many ways.

Workwise, we're not in an ideal position. I have one deadline tomorrow, and the next on Monday. My main concern is that I probably won't have a lot of time for next week's magazines until Monday, at which point it'll be a crunch-time deadline day.

Tomorrow's magazine isn't in desperately bad shape, all things considered. It dropped by 8 pages today, owing to a distinct lack of sales and being several thousand off it's projected target. On the downside, this meant that vast swathes of editorial had to cut, and much of the remainder had to be renumbered. On the upside, rather than having about 5 and a half pages of filler (free) ads, there are only two quarter page fillers, one of which is due to be sold tomorrow. It's a fairly small magazine, and what remains to be done is quite manageable... but even so, it prevents me from getting very involved in Monday's magazine.

I'm glad this kind of crap only happens once a year.

After work, the plan was to pop off uptown for shopping, food and fun. The shopping was disappointing (who knew Harrods was little more than a theme park these days? Who knew???), food was decent... but the day had been too depressing for the rest of the plan.

But just to show that no day can be all bad, I got home and found a parcel waiting for me: My latest eBay purchase, Galaxy Force Gasket Police Type. Like the standard version, he's pretty cute, with an oversized, double-barrelled weapon. Like just about every version of the mold, the pieces that attach the rear wheel to the body of the vehicle (and the two halves to the legs of the robot) are assembled incorrectly, but it doesn't really damage the model in any significant way.