Yesterday’s post was hastily done. A longtime reader pointed out one mistake, and a questionable one–a tricky was/were instance, which, since I wasn’t actually there to see the event, means I can’t actually tell you which one would be proper… Although in the rest of the English-speaking world, “were” would be correct. Except Canada, perhaps.
I have some, er, distractions going on lately.
My oldest son is going through some phases. He’s not real happy about potty training, and he’s afraid of monsters, which, as I understand, means his imagination and sense of vulnerability are developing. Both of the latter are good things, especially in the long run, but it means I have less time at night for things.
So the quality of my editing suffers. The quality of my writing may too, though I can write 20-25 words per minute when I get on a roll, which means I can pound out 600 words in less than 30 minutes.
My younger son plays off the older one, so sometimes both will get to screaming, which means I have to calm at least one of them down. That takes priority over writing.
So until this rides out, either quantity or quality will drop.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.