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Bad times...
Jun. 3rd, 2002 11:56 pmIt's been a pretty hard year in Pagosa so far. A few months back, two brothers started to speed away from a police car and the driver ended up losing control of the car, and his passenger ended up losing his life. I seem to recall he was 18 or so. Bad news.
Then a heartbeat later, it seems, a car at the other end of town overcorrected after almost going off the road and ended up going off the road with a vengeance, and a high-school student lost her life. Drew knew her and her family. More bad news.
Then today, someone came into the store and told us that a car filled with people that Drew and Shannon know had gone off the road near Cortez after the driver fell asleep at the wheel. The two young people in the back seat died. The recent high-school graduate in the passenger's seat is in critical condition, and the driver is in the hospital, too, but I didn't catch any news about him.
Myself, personally, I don't know any of these kids, though I may have seen them around, here and there. While it's really hard on Drew and Shannon, I found it was hard on me as well, for a variety of reasons, none of them very clear or convincing.
Besides whatever faults in judgment there may have been, one factor seems common to all three tragedies: those who died were apparently not wearing seat belts.
* * * The translation work keeps coming on in. I have a 15-pager that is due by 3 pm tomorrow, but I have my doubts about that. Drew and Shannon felt driven to go to Durango and visit their friends, so Galina and I volunteered to watch Huntur. As a result, I got started on the translation late, at around 9:30 pm.
As the source text is in a Word file, I'm using DejaVu to help me along (there's lots of strange formatting in the original document, and I need to sharpen my TM skills anyway). Of 428 sentence "segments" in the DV file, I've processed nearly 120 in just about 2 hours (part of which was spent off-task, but I wasn't really paying attention as to how big a part).
At this rate, if I stay strictly at home tomorrow morning and do not go to open the store, there is a chance I can finish this thing, which is "generic" medical text, in about 6 hours. Add an hour or so for a once-over and then maybe, if I start around 6 am, I can deliver a finished product on time.
But for that to happen, I'll have to get to bed soon. The kids are on their way back from Durango as I write this, and I don't think I can realistically get to sleep until I see/hear them coming up the driveway.
Cheers...
Then a heartbeat later, it seems, a car at the other end of town overcorrected after almost going off the road and ended up going off the road with a vengeance, and a high-school student lost her life. Drew knew her and her family. More bad news.
Then today, someone came into the store and told us that a car filled with people that Drew and Shannon know had gone off the road near Cortez after the driver fell asleep at the wheel. The two young people in the back seat died. The recent high-school graduate in the passenger's seat is in critical condition, and the driver is in the hospital, too, but I didn't catch any news about him.
Myself, personally, I don't know any of these kids, though I may have seen them around, here and there. While it's really hard on Drew and Shannon, I found it was hard on me as well, for a variety of reasons, none of them very clear or convincing.
Besides whatever faults in judgment there may have been, one factor seems common to all three tragedies: those who died were apparently not wearing seat belts.
As the source text is in a Word file, I'm using DejaVu to help me along (there's lots of strange formatting in the original document, and I need to sharpen my TM skills anyway). Of 428 sentence "segments" in the DV file, I've processed nearly 120 in just about 2 hours (part of which was spent off-task, but I wasn't really paying attention as to how big a part).
At this rate, if I stay strictly at home tomorrow morning and do not go to open the store, there is a chance I can finish this thing, which is "generic" medical text, in about 6 hours. Add an hour or so for a once-over and then maybe, if I start around 6 am, I can deliver a finished product on time.
But for that to happen, I'll have to get to bed soon. The kids are on their way back from Durango as I write this, and I don't think I can realistically get to sleep until I see/hear them coming up the driveway.
Cheers...
