Morning update...

I finally stopped working around 12:30 am this morning. Apparently, when I skipped over some of the figures in this last piece (a.k.a., TNP-3), there was generally a good reason to leave it for later. Unfortunately, I also underestimated just how many of these figures I skipped. I'd put 45 pages "behind" me by the time I went to sleep.

I went to the store early today to fix an imaginary computer problem, and am working here to finish TMP-3 by 10 am, at which time I'll go pick up mail. I've done half of what remains to be done in about 50 minutes. If this continues, I'll even have time to check some finances... I want to make sure scheduled payments get made.

In the cold grey light of morning, my predicament can be summarized by something I heard in the Marines, albeit with a lot more linguistic, um, decoration:

Poor planning produces predictable, preventable problems.

It's terrible alliteration, but the meaning is true. I should probably have that engraved on a plaque and set on my desk, but after I finish the edit.

Cheers...

Pffft...

I must have come up with a good half dozen themes for LJ entries during the course of the day, but they all escape me at the moment. I got past the troublesome part of TMP-3 soon after this morning's post and submitted the whole deal somewhere around 9:15 am or so, together with a pretty nice invoice.

I then went in to the store, where I pretty much spent the rest of the day. It was pretty busy today, too (thank goodness). I finally went home around 5:30 with some groceries and cooked dinner.

And here I am, trying to recall some of the Great Themes that crossed my mind while I was sorting the second-class mail.

Bupkis.

(So I guess they must not have been so great...)

* * *The DSL modem arrived today. I expect the DSL router will get here the middle or end of next week, at which point I will be able to do at the store what I am doing at home: network several machines together to take advantage of the DSL bandwidth. and the ability to do file interchanges.

We'll also be able to get online with UPS and FedEx, which will help since both outfits are fixing to go hog-wild with new fees and escalations whose application is not exactly clear.

* * *Now that the translation larder is empty, I'll have some time to concentrate on some of the other areas of my life, including reducing the clutter around here. In the meantime, however, I think I'll go upstairs and join Galina before the TV.

Cheers...