Afternoon delight...
Oct. 12th, 2010 04:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe iPod's battery gave every indication that it had well and truly died this morning, because not only did it not show any accumulated charge after an hour on the USB cable, but the player actually "woke up" a couple of times during the morning, as if the battery charge level had just risen to the minimum level required to let the computer know the device was there.
Just now, I turned the unit on and it shows 100% charge on the battery.
My next step, I think, is going to be to noodle around various iPod resources on the net, to find out if perhaps what I'm experiencing is the result of an upgrade bug.
* * * Galina and I went for a drive a couple of hours ago and ended up passing by the Methodist Thrift Shop downtown. We stopped in to chat - Galina knows some of the staff - and I checked out the bookshelves, stopping cold when I saw a medium-sized cardboard box with 9 of the 11 volumes of Will and Ariel Durant's The Story of Civilization.
I'm not quite sure I'll lug any of these tomes to Kazakhstan with me, but I've already dipped into The Life of Greece, and plan to take what is described as an electronic version of this tome with me, though I may not have time to read it.
* * * In other "financial" news, I managed to find a reasonably priced hotel within a mile or so of the hotel at which the 51th Annual ATA Conference is being held in Denver at the end of the month, so now I can focus on actually polishing my presentation (writing is a form of polishing, is it not?) and rehearsing it to make sure it fits within my allotted time frame.
* * * FWIW, I sent off the first chunk of Feht's text this morning, which takes a bit of a load off my mind.
I'm currently 4,000 words of the way through a report that I'd like to finish by the end of the day (1,600 words to go!).
In other translation-related news, I've successfully posted a "term of the day" at the Translation Outpost for the third day in a row, which is a record. The next step is to develop a habit to do so daily (I had to do it for LJ, way back when), figure out the best way to build some traffic toward the site.
And so, said the author, it goes.
Cheers...
Just now, I turned the unit on and it shows 100% charge on the battery.
My next step, I think, is going to be to noodle around various iPod resources on the net, to find out if perhaps what I'm experiencing is the result of an upgrade bug.
I'm not quite sure I'll lug any of these tomes to Kazakhstan with me, but I've already dipped into The Life of Greece, and plan to take what is described as an electronic version of this tome with me, though I may not have time to read it.
I'm currently 4,000 words of the way through a report that I'd like to finish by the end of the day (1,600 words to go!).
In other translation-related news, I've successfully posted a "term of the day" at the Translation Outpost for the third day in a row, which is a record. The next step is to develop a habit to do so daily (I had to do it for LJ, way back when), figure out the best way to build some traffic toward the site.
And so, said the author, it goes.
Cheers...
