So the question arises, “What have you accomplished lately?”

A fair amount, actually.

Since no scientific work came my way this spring, I edited several materials for Country Casual Teak, the furniture company for which a good friend of mine works. I don’t often say this, but I do excellent work with websites and retail materials. Perhaps I should say it more often.

The company sent me some prelive web pages to edit, and it wasn’t just the text that I examined fastidiously. Each page had various links and buttons which I checked by clicking on them and making sure they led to the correct page or site. Oftentimes, the photos of the furniture were links themselves, which also required verification.

Some of the prelive pages were to be part of the company’s portfolio, which is very important for showing how good their furniture looks in various settings. Each page showed a country club, school, museum, or other facility and was full of text, links, and buttons to be scrutinized.

I also edited advertising emails, which were sent to clients on the company’s mailing list. These were not time-intensive, but the tricky thing about them was the hover text, which is tiny text that appears when one hovers over a photo. It had better be correct, and it was my responsibility to make sure that it was.

The largest project on which I worked for Country Casual Teak this spring was an eBook that was aimed at trade clients (mostly contractors and designers). The eBook consisted of 195 pages and was made up of some text, many photos, and many dimensional diagrams. Each diagram had a list of dimensions under it, and it was my job (in this case) to verify these dimensions by checking those on each item’s web page. Somewhat tedious, yes, but very necessary for those thinking of purchasing the furniture.

So…lots of exercises in accuracy. And I wouldn’t want it any other way.