Nice work, if you can get it...

But all I got was an assignment in which the penmanship (and education) of the person "filling in the blanks" left quite a bit to be desired. Fortunately, Feht helped me out with the handwriting, else there would have been a much greater number of [illegible] labels peppered through the text. As it is, there are enough of them in the translation, even after Feht ran his eyeballs over the text.

BTW, there's no telling what the real reason for the delay is, but his satellite-based Internet provider (Hughes, if memory serves) is taking nearly forever to deliver e-mail (hours). We idly speculated that the Hughes birds may be having a great deal of bandwidth siphoned off by events in the Middle East. Who knows?

After watching some of the war coverage last night and listening to some over the radio at the store this morning, I am convinced that not only will nothing of interest be reported in any meaningful manner, but that the veracity of what is reported is highly questionable (due in large part to what some literary type once termed "the fog of war," which is a high-falutin' way of saying, "the utter confusion that reigns in a combat zone," though I heard some even more descriptive phrases in my Marine days). So I think I'm going to go back to ignoring what the media have to say about what's going on, unless whatever it is (i.e., an end to hostilities) is just too big to miss.

In any event, my productivity with today's assignment was - between the gawdawful formatting required and the penmanship of the document originator - pretty low.

But it's not as if I have anything else to do, right?

Cheers...