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A translation-free day...
May. 31st, 2002 11:33 pmI started the day with some huevos rancheros at the Pagosa Lodge, listening to some of my amateur radio colleagues hold forth on this and that. The kitchen apparently has a new cook, and huevos rancheros are definitely not his specialty. The dish was edible, and it put me in the right frame of mind for the start of the day.
It turned out to be a fairly slow Friday, but not one without some stress. No biggie, as it's in the past. The balances in the bank show the store's account with the largest balance, which is not good, considering how small it actually is.
Dinner was non-existent this evening, and Galina and I just got finished watching a film with Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones titled Rules of Engagement. It started somewhat slowly, and seemed as if it was going to tackle some basic issues, up until the point where it becomes obvious that the bad guys in the movie are not out to grease the skids of justice, they want to outright hijack the vehicle. Jackson and Jones played well off one another, and the ending was a little predictable, but all the same, I thought it was a reasonably good movie.
Tomorrow and Sunday look like full days of translation, so I decided to take today easy. The extent of my involvement with language was to respond to a comment made to my previous post, and to take a professional interest in a plot point in RoE. There, Jones' character plays a tape for a Yemeni doctor, who is testifying at Jackson's trial, and asks him to translate what is being said. This the doctor does, at first consecutively and then simultaneously (or nearly so).
Most people who are bilingual make ridiculous interpreters, or at least the attempts are ridiculous. The good doctor's ability to so easily translate Arabic into colloquial English I found suspicious (especially when he starts, as I said, to do so simultaneously), but only from a professional perspective.
Mandatory water rationing starts tomorrow. It won't affect us, as we don't water anything around the house, at least not using hoses or sprinklers. Today was an incredibly hot day in town; almost making me feel as if I was back in Houston.
It's getting late. Time to turn in.
Cheers...
It turned out to be a fairly slow Friday, but not one without some stress. No biggie, as it's in the past. The balances in the bank show the store's account with the largest balance, which is not good, considering how small it actually is.
Dinner was non-existent this evening, and Galina and I just got finished watching a film with Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones titled Rules of Engagement. It started somewhat slowly, and seemed as if it was going to tackle some basic issues, up until the point where it becomes obvious that the bad guys in the movie are not out to grease the skids of justice, they want to outright hijack the vehicle. Jackson and Jones played well off one another, and the ending was a little predictable, but all the same, I thought it was a reasonably good movie.
Tomorrow and Sunday look like full days of translation, so I decided to take today easy. The extent of my involvement with language was to respond to a comment made to my previous post, and to take a professional interest in a plot point in RoE. There, Jones' character plays a tape for a Yemeni doctor, who is testifying at Jackson's trial, and asks him to translate what is being said. This the doctor does, at first consecutively and then simultaneously (or nearly so).
Most people who are bilingual make ridiculous interpreters, or at least the attempts are ridiculous. The good doctor's ability to so easily translate Arabic into colloquial English I found suspicious (especially when he starts, as I said, to do so simultaneously), but only from a professional perspective.
Mandatory water rationing starts tomorrow. It won't affect us, as we don't water anything around the house, at least not using hoses or sprinklers. Today was an incredibly hot day in town; almost making me feel as if I was back in Houston.
It's getting late. Time to turn in.
Cheers...
