Reminder to self...

As a result of some quick research, know ye the following:

1. The city of Leninsk is called Baykonur, and has been, since 1995.

2. The space center near what is now Baykonur, which used to be called just "Baykonur," is now known as the Baykonur Cosmodrome (same time frame).

2. The country in which these places are found is properly spelled Kazakstan (same time frame).

The time difference between Baykonur and Pagosa Springs is currently 12 hours. I don't know if Kazakstan observes "summer" time (what we call "Daylight Savings Time"), and if they do, when they might revert back to "standard" time.

Another high-speed day...

I got up late (6:45 am), and went to open the store. Galina went to her yoga class. Drew showed up around 8:30 am, despite working long hours yesterday and partying with Brady last night (Brady hit the quarter-century mark yesterday, dontcha know...).

So everything got done, eventually, and I left for home around 11:30. There was a message from client M, from nearly 9 am. An "emergency" said my contact. I called back, but by this time, the emergency (a rush-rush translation) had been assigned to someone else.

I'm not complaining.

Anyway, I tried to take a nap, but couldn't fall asleep. Then I went back to the store to send an urgent UPS letter via their second-day service. That visit stretched until just after 5 pm, and I really didn't get a good start on the day until after 6 pm.

Yech.

It was, however, a good day for client payments. Two more came in, which made me a very happy camper at the cashier's window today.

Up until a few minutes ago, there was a pretty... demonstrative thunderstorm wandering around outside my window. Fortunately, the power was not disrupted in the course of the display (which doesn't mean it won't be... I should save my work... [pause]... done!)

I think I am going to finish the page I am on and then go upstairs and hang out with Galina. Maybe give her a foot rub.

Cheers...

A break, and then more work...

I went upstairs after my previous post, and Galina and I ended up watching Life or Somthinng Like It, with Angelina Jolie.

The hook is interesting: A reporter (Jolie) is told several predictions by a street "prophet," among which is a statement that she will die in a week. All of the prophet's short-term predictions are 100%-on-the-money, which gets the reporter to thinking about life... the universe... and everything. Time grows short and Jolie makes big changes in her life. In the end, everyone appears to be living happily ever after.

Surely, some will knock the film heartily as it dares to have the "is what you accomplished worth what you gave up" question asked by Jolie and answered by a Famous Woman Personality (played by Stockard Channing), with a very strong hint that, well, maybe... no, it wasn't worth it. Such incorrect thought is believed by some to reflect attitudes squarely of the "keep-em-barefoot-and-pregnant" school of thought.

Idiocy aside, the film raises some interesting points, and although Jolie's performance is not exactly what I'd call unforgettable (though I admit she is attractive), there is something about those moments with her sister and her boyfriend, when she is asking questions that they have never bothered to ask and don't understand anyway, that make the film endearing.

* * *Anyway, after the movie, I went back downstairs and did a couple more pages of Junior. I have three pages to go (the boiler part went quickly). Once I check the text, it'll be addio to El Humungo and his ilk. For a while.

Paper chase time.

Cheers...