Tired, but determined...

I decided not to be a slave to the LJ habit yesterday, preferring instead to have dinner with the kids, watch a Bond movie on the tube, and not miss Galina too much. She called around 10 or so to tell me she'd made it to the vicinity of Amarillo.

I spent all day at the store yesterday, and it was pretty tiring. We are now experiencing a slow, but steady stream of people calling in to find out about packages that didn't make it to their destination and packages that arrived a little, um, bent. We're going to have to make sure we keep all these calls in order and not miss anything.

I got a call yesterday morning from a client offering work, and took it. I probably should have started working on the documents yesterday evening, but my heart just wasn't in it. It doesn't look too bad, but then again, I've just printed it out and haven't really looked at it hard, so I may be deceiving myself.

Off to work...

Cheers...

Slow day, fast night...

It was a slow day at the store. By 10:30 am, we'd cleared just $50 in sales; I don't know how much we did overall, but I'll bet it won't cover Drew's (and Shannon's) wages for the day.

Which is why I translate <grin>.

I've been at it for just about 6 hours, with a short break for dinner, and I've done 23 pages (of 32, with 17 pages in the other document). As I had an electronic original, I decided to use Déjà Vu, if for no other reason but to keep me from omitting stray sentences in the text (the original was written by someone who is font-happy, so it's kind of hard to read). The down side in using this tool is not being able to (or knowing how to) do a word count, so I don't know if I've worked a 2500-word day or a 5500-word day (or something in between).

I think I will work until a few minutes in front of 10 pm and then go upstairs to see if there's anything interesting on the tube. If I can do 4 more pages, that'll be great, as the material turns lightweight about that time, which would be a great start for me in the morning. (On the other hand, I can probably call it a night right now and polish off the rest of this document and the whole of the other one in another 6 hours or so tomorrow, when I'm fresh... do I look like I need convincing?)

Galina called us at the store around 1:30 pm or so. She was calling from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, where she invariably misses the turnoff for 287 south, headed toward Ennis and I-45, and instead motors on toward Waco. I guess she must have made it with no problem this time because she called about a half hour ago (it seems) to report that she made it to Pearland okay. She was pleased with the cleaning job I did before I left (I, frankly, had forgotten about it), and I was pleased to hear that the electricity is still on.

It takes so little...

Ah, well. Let me noodle a bit more, and then go on upstairs...

Cheers...

One of life's little ironies...

One of joelgrus's recent posts reminded me of an amusing phenomenon here in Pagosa "Hub of the Universe" Springs...

On each DVD disk rented from the local supermarket is a discreet reminder, carefully applied on a small sticky label by some nimwit (or by some nimwit's orders), to make sure to rewind the movie before returning it.

Ye gods.

Cheers...