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If I were a less cordial fellow, I'd attribute the absence of our employee Caleb over the past couple of days to a touch of goldbrick fever. Now, to be sure, Caleb had been coughing up a storm on Monday and late last week, and has been calling in saying he's sick and is going to go to the doctor, but he's also been visiting the local coffee shop in broad daylight these past couple of days, seemingly in very good health.
I could not help out at the shop these past few days because of a killer deadline on the tank specification that'd been the focus of my posts for, it seems, ever. Today, however, I decided that I could delay working on The Nuclear Papers (or TNP, as I shall refer to them) for a few hours, as it was absolutely essential for all packages to make it out the door today, come what may.
As it is, I'd say a good 70% of the UPS packages I processed until a short while ago were in the "3-Day Select" class, which would pop them on recipients' doorsteps on Monday, just in time for The Big Day. Drew assured me he could handle the rest, so I came home.
And realized that I am tired.
No big deal, however, as there are many things to do before actually sitting down and starting to work on TNP. There are several glossary files to print and study, for example.
There are a number of terminology-related HTML files I need to winnow down into something I can use in the future.
I really need to print out the files on my laser printer, because the output from the dot-matrix Epson missed a few pages, and is not really too good at doing grey backgrounds.
* * * Drew's DSL kicked in today. I came home and tried it out on the extension jack I wired the other day and... well... it's really sweet to be able to download data faster than 1.6 KB per second. I went to one site where there is this 40-MB file I've wanted to get for a while and started downloading it, just to see at what speed the download rate would level off. It appears that, between that file and a couple of others, I can snarf data at between 22 and 23 KB per second, pretty consistently, which can be classified as "cooking with gas" in these parts.
Cheers...
I could not help out at the shop these past few days because of a killer deadline on the tank specification that'd been the focus of my posts for, it seems, ever. Today, however, I decided that I could delay working on The Nuclear Papers (or TNP, as I shall refer to them) for a few hours, as it was absolutely essential for all packages to make it out the door today, come what may.
As it is, I'd say a good 70% of the UPS packages I processed until a short while ago were in the "3-Day Select" class, which would pop them on recipients' doorsteps on Monday, just in time for The Big Day. Drew assured me he could handle the rest, so I came home.
And realized that I am tired.
No big deal, however, as there are many things to do before actually sitting down and starting to work on TNP. There are several glossary files to print and study, for example.
There are a number of terminology-related HTML files I need to winnow down into something I can use in the future.
I really need to print out the files on my laser printer, because the output from the dot-matrix Epson missed a few pages, and is not really too good at doing grey backgrounds.
Cheers...
