alexpgp | Feeling my Wheaties...

I am always nonplussed by end clients who come up with multi-thousand word documents - purportedly of an essential, vital nature - that for some reason require immediate turnaround under conditions that keep shoving the translator over into the direction of the abyss, from the point of view of quality. I mean, if the document is so all-fired important, you'd think it wouldn't be last out of the starting gate, right? Or at least not issued so close to an immovable deadline as to make working with it nothing short of nightmarish.

Then again, it's not as if this is some kind of surprising, new phenomenon. This stuff is par for the course!

The latest exemplar of this kind unceremoniously grabbed a chunk of my time and involved some heavy lifting, so to speak. I had expected to receive a fairly large chunk of work from someone else this morning, in preparation for the Ukraine trip, but it only just arrived, so it's not as if I had to rearrange my work schedule. In any event, now my plate has been replenished.

I note, with only the slightest chagrin, that the Invoice Manager software, whose license terms allow individuals to install it on two machines, will not install under Vista, which makes the third software package that my "upgrade" to Microsoft's latest and greatest operating system has made useless (the previous two were Dragon Naturally Speaking and my Visioneer scanner software). No matter. I shall simply sit down and write invoices by hand.

But I better get cracking; I'm about three invoices behind!

Cheers...l