And the beat goes on...

I got the editing part of the job done last night, but wasn't about to start trying to deal with the figures in the translation, so I left that for the morning, and set my alarm for 6 am.

It seems, however, that as long as Sasha is in heat, I'll never want for an alarm clock in the form of Ming "The Boy" Toy, who starts to plaintively wail around 4:30 am each morning. (I've taken to removing myself to a spare bedroom with Ming, so as not to disturb Galina, who gets precious little sleep as it is.)

So by 5:00, I was up, and decided to put a dent in the day by finishing the figures and sending the job off. I had visions of sending off a bunch of overdue invoices, too.

The Russian source document is a PDF file. The file has been protected in such a way as to make it (theoretically) impossible to edit or copy the graphics without a password. A quick look at the Internet shows at least half a dozen utilities out there, ranging in price from $30 and up, that will crack any such password in short order. I was only mildly surprised not to find any freeware password "recovery" utilities out there.

My loss was my gain, as the figures that needed incorporation are simply way too complex for normal mortals to deal with in any sort of sane time frame. I keyed the figures and provided translations of the captions in the file that I then sent off with plenty of time to spare.

I even got my invoices off, and got to the store (which Galina opened) shortly after 9 am. I stayed there until closing, after which Galina and I went directly to a local eatery (a former sports bar), where a financial planner was hosting an eat-and-listen seminar, pitching his services.

Upon coming home, I caught up on my e-mail, which included an assignment (due Wednesday) and a couple of details associated with the nuclear work I sent in last week. I'll have to take care of them tomorrow pretty early, before I go to the store to do a report, and I am sure Ming will help me in that effort by making sure I am up in plenty of time to attack the problem.

* * *I just switched the "ordinary" DSL/Router for the wireless one, and seem to be able to hit the Internet with no problem. I don't have WEP enabled (not that it's the answer to anything, except perhaps as a defense against clueless dolts), but I want to see if getting my RedHat-powered eSlate up to wireless snuff is gong to be as easy as the docs say it ought to be.

In the meantime, Mandrake has apparently just released its 8.2 version its Linux distribution. (I wonder if Win4Lin is upgrading its code?)

Let's see if we can get the wireless working...

Cheers...