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Another day at the keyboard...
Jun. 2nd, 2001 09:55 pmWhile on the road to Farmington, I got a call on the cellphone asking if I were interested in a 28-page translation having to do with oil derricks. I figured if the nuclear magnetic resonance text didn't leave me gasping in the dust, then inspection of oil derricks ought to be pretty easy, so I said yes.
I got two more calls on the way to Farmington, one offering a rush job (which I accepted) and the other calling it off. Cellphones are great.
The material is actually pretty straightforward. I'm probably about 80% of the way through it, textwise. Most of the part I have left to do consists of a couple of pages of text and a number of full-page figures with not all that much text in them, so they ought to go down pretty fast.
Galina is intent on visiting an alpaca ranch in Paonia, Colorado, which is up near Grand Junction. The instructions from MapQuest estimate a 6-plus hour trip each way (for just over 200 miles). That sounds a wee bit too conservative, as I don't think the average speed limit on the road between here and there is 33 mph (it's more like 60 mph, except through towns). If we do go then I'll have to finish the translation on Monday, which'll beat the deadline (Thursday) handily. If we don't go, I can have it in first thing Monday, which would be nice.
I missed tonight's ISS pass by about 20 minutes, but there are still two opportunities over the next two days... assuming I want to get up around 4 am... which I don't think is in the cards.
Now, it's off to look for the recovery disk for my Compaq. Like it or not, I've got to reinstall Windows so we can have a machine at the store that the bookkeeper can use. Fortunately, I've already backed up all of the files from my home directory on the machine.
Cheers...
I got two more calls on the way to Farmington, one offering a rush job (which I accepted) and the other calling it off. Cellphones are great.
The material is actually pretty straightforward. I'm probably about 80% of the way through it, textwise. Most of the part I have left to do consists of a couple of pages of text and a number of full-page figures with not all that much text in them, so they ought to go down pretty fast.
Galina is intent on visiting an alpaca ranch in Paonia, Colorado, which is up near Grand Junction. The instructions from MapQuest estimate a 6-plus hour trip each way (for just over 200 miles). That sounds a wee bit too conservative, as I don't think the average speed limit on the road between here and there is 33 mph (it's more like 60 mph, except through towns). If we do go then I'll have to finish the translation on Monday, which'll beat the deadline (Thursday) handily. If we don't go, I can have it in first thing Monday, which would be nice.
I missed tonight's ISS pass by about 20 minutes, but there are still two opportunities over the next two days... assuming I want to get up around 4 am... which I don't think is in the cards.
Now, it's off to look for the recovery disk for my Compaq. Like it or not, I've got to reinstall Windows so we can have a machine at the store that the bookkeeper can use. Fortunately, I've already backed up all of the files from my home directory on the machine.
Cheers...
