...find out when the nearby Fed Ex location last drop-off time is and try to make that.
Oh Boise!
Wow, I feel like a soccer ball that's been kicked around all night.
I need 4 cups of coffee (with an ounce of vanilla creamer).
All the major stuff is done:
cover, poster, Features 1-9, album reviews, columns, "Play" section, letters, live report, readers' poll & survey, one featurette.
All I've got left is:
laying out ads, creating a few "house" ads, laying out the "EC's" (those mini stories in the "Hard News" section), the TOC, "Pick of the Litter," that continued page, a last-minute featurette that I thought was done already, the back page, and then making any corrections that the proofreaders have found. I'm trying to make the Fed Ex location today (I think the last drop time is 1pm) so I can turn in all the printed proofs that need to be overnighted to the printer. (I'll send the actual PDF files of each page over the internet -- what did we do before that virtual spider web of information/communication existed?)
Did you know that if you have to ship something on Friday or Saturday that needs to arrive on Monday -- that it costs no more to ship it Saturday as it does on Friday? Those are the rules at Fed Ex.
Just in case you were wondering, though, you can't wear any Nike clothing, shoes, jewelry if you work at Fed Ex. It's true. I know a Canadian that works there. Seems an employee stole a new pair of Nikes from a package, slipped his old shoes to the customer and walked out with the new ones. Now the entire employee work force has to agree not to wear any Nike garb. They can't bring in cell phones, either.