off to the South-Wet

[julesjones]

Sending a wet Bank Holiday weekend in the South Wet. I think if any writing gets done it'll have to be whatever I can manage with fountain pen and dead tree, because I can tell there will be protests from my tendons if I use a flat keyboard for more than looking at my email.

It occurs to me as I type this that it might actually be worth my while buying a duplicate keyboard to stick in my travel kit. Of course, it would be useful to actually finish and sell something this year so that I have writing income from which to deduct business expenses... In fact, it might make sense to do that anyway, and use the new one as the primary, so that I have a UK keyboard at home as well as at the day job. It gets annoying on occasion to not have the pound sterling sign on this one. Then I can put the old US keyboard in the travel kit.

I'd spend some of the free time this weekend looking at the short story markets to see if there's a likely home for a couple of things already on the hard drive, but I will be bandwidth-challenged. I should probably add a PAYG broadband dongle to that list of things I can and should buy as a business expenditure item. Must ask heleninwales for details of hers, because my usage pattern is that it would get used quite intensely for a few days every 2 or 3 months, and no use in between, so I need a tariff geared to that.

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[waveney.livejournal.com]

I have an O2 PAYGO dongle - there was a fixed charge up front for the dongle (~ £20) then its either £2 a day, £5 a week or £10 a month (up to limits I have never exceeded). It is unused for months then gets 1 or 2 days use.

[julesjones]

Ta for that -- does the credit expire at the end of the period, or roll over? Helen uses Vodaphone, where the credit doesn't expire, which may suit me better most of the time, but the O2 one might be better if I have any more outbreaks of 3 weeks away with work.

[waveney.livejournal.com]

It does not roll over - since I have had it I have paid for 2 or 3 single days and 1 week so far