Winding down...
Sep. 17th, 2002 01:33 pmI feel exquisitely productive, but I haven't even started on today's installment of El Humungo.
I went to get a visa photo taken the other day, and although I could have sworn I heard the photographer say he'd be by to drop off the photos at the shop (he's across the parking lot), I ended up going by this morning to pick them up.
The good news as of this moment is: I've put the photos and the visa application in the envelope and it's now on its way for processing. The bad news is that the image on the photo must be about the worst mug shot I've ever taken. Ah, well... you can't have it all, all the time!
On other fronts, I did a short job for S this morning and sent it off. This kind of thing happens many times, particularly when I'm working on a big job like El Humongo. There are limits, of course, as to how much time I can divert (practically speaking, I can probably manage 500 words per day on the side). This was a small job, along those lines. By comparison, I got call yesterday from another client, X (also in Houston), who wanted me to do a 3500-word job, but the deadline was too short.
An example of the kind of difficulty I'm encountering with the big job is the following: I run across the term "кормовой отвод," which implies some part of a ship (lifeboat, in this particular case) near the stern. No online resource (e.g., Multitran) nails it. None of my paper dictionaries do, either, including two subject-specific bilingual marine dictionaries. Finally, by looking on Rambler.ru, I run across a fascinating article (in Russian, natch) by one A. Larionov all about the Soviet destroyer Lenin, which includes a collection of keyed drawings including an illustration of the item I'm looking for, labeled "36":

From the illustration, I'll bet the "кормовой отвод" serves a function in conjunction with the hardware immediately above it, i.e., to keep a line - or chain - that runs from capstan "46" through the hardware to wherever away from the side of the ship. (And no, I don't know what the "hardware" is called, either.)
Unfortunately, none of my "visual dictionaries" (compendiums of keyed illustrations) is of any help here. (As an aside, I can't understand how books so chock full of information consistently do not contain the information I need.) Hopefully, the information I need will be found before I send in the job.
Enough procrastination... it's time to "turn to."
Cheers...
P.S. No news from client M regarding who is to get the last chunk of El Humungo.
I went to get a visa photo taken the other day, and although I could have sworn I heard the photographer say he'd be by to drop off the photos at the shop (he's across the parking lot), I ended up going by this morning to pick them up.
The good news as of this moment is: I've put the photos and the visa application in the envelope and it's now on its way for processing. The bad news is that the image on the photo must be about the worst mug shot I've ever taken. Ah, well... you can't have it all, all the time!
On other fronts, I did a short job for S this morning and sent it off. This kind of thing happens many times, particularly when I'm working on a big job like El Humongo. There are limits, of course, as to how much time I can divert (practically speaking, I can probably manage 500 words per day on the side). This was a small job, along those lines. By comparison, I got call yesterday from another client, X (also in Houston), who wanted me to do a 3500-word job, but the deadline was too short.
An example of the kind of difficulty I'm encountering with the big job is the following: I run across the term "кормовой отвод," which implies some part of a ship (lifeboat, in this particular case) near the stern. No online resource (e.g., Multitran) nails it. None of my paper dictionaries do, either, including two subject-specific bilingual marine dictionaries. Finally, by looking on Rambler.ru, I run across a fascinating article (in Russian, natch) by one A. Larionov all about the Soviet destroyer Lenin, which includes a collection of keyed drawings including an illustration of the item I'm looking for, labeled "36":

From the illustration, I'll bet the "кормовой отвод" serves a function in conjunction with the hardware immediately above it, i.e., to keep a line - or chain - that runs from capstan "46" through the hardware to wherever away from the side of the ship. (And no, I don't know what the "hardware" is called, either.)
Unfortunately, none of my "visual dictionaries" (compendiums of keyed illustrations) is of any help here. (As an aside, I can't understand how books so chock full of information consistently do not contain the information I need.) Hopefully, the information I need will be found before I send in the job.
Enough procrastination... it's time to "turn to."
Cheers...
P.S. No news from client M regarding who is to get the last chunk of El Humungo.