March 2024 in Review
Hello Funny People, After the whirl of last month, I hardly expected my birthday month to be an eventful one. Yet, it turned out to be quite fun indeed. Report from the Query Trenches While it took me longer to complete than last month, I managed to send out a total of thirty (30) new queries this month. I'm sure you're all thinking, "Wait a minute, Ian. I though you said you were going to keep things limited to 10 queries a month? Why the sudden jump?" One word: rejections. I sent out the bulk of these queries over the Saint Patrick's Day weekend (most on that very day, in fact). Then, partly to my chagrin, partly to my relief, I got about seven rejections over the course of the week of the 18th, nearly all from this recent batch of queries. Several came in on the 18th, a couple came in on the 21st (my dad's birthday). So, my old habit of immediately resubmitting something that was rejected kicked in. The minute those Rs came in, I was scrolling
