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And it's not even noon yet!
The amateur radio breakfast went well, and I even managed to do some grocery shopping afterward before returning home to finish the current assignment.
The last part of the document was a marvelous collection of boilerplate, which sped things along splendidly. Then I finished off four rather sparsely populated diagrams and settled down to the task of despeckling everything.
Then I noticed an interesting call for bids on a job involving petroleum engineering, and the sample translation was not very long, and it was among the kind of stuff I used to do when I worked as an engineer. So I "pushed" the despeckling "on the stack" and set about translating the sample.
And ran into some interesting walls, terminology-wise. And then realized that all of my petroleum references are for "upstream" work (i.e., drilling and production) not refining, etc. Still, I finished the sample and sent it off with my CV and a rate that will probably disqualify me (unless the quality of my work trumps price).
No such deed goes unpunished, because as I was putting together the outgoing email that put all of this together, I got a phone call to the effect that the document I'm working on has been revised, and would I please incorporate the revisions by tomorrow morning?
Fortunately, I think I can do that.
Cheers...
The last part of the document was a marvelous collection of boilerplate, which sped things along splendidly. Then I finished off four rather sparsely populated diagrams and settled down to the task of despeckling everything.
Then I noticed an interesting call for bids on a job involving petroleum engineering, and the sample translation was not very long, and it was among the kind of stuff I used to do when I worked as an engineer. So I "pushed" the despeckling "on the stack" and set about translating the sample.
And ran into some interesting walls, terminology-wise. And then realized that all of my petroleum references are for "upstream" work (i.e., drilling and production) not refining, etc. Still, I finished the sample and sent it off with my CV and a rate that will probably disqualify me (unless the quality of my work trumps price).
No such deed goes unpunished, because as I was putting together the outgoing email that put all of this together, I got a phone call to the effect that the document I'm working on has been revised, and would I please incorporate the revisions by tomorrow morning?
Fortunately, I think I can do that.
Cheers...
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But there's always hope. One of the members of the group just turned 80 and is encouraging me to get my General ticket!
Cheers...