29,613 done...

A mere 822 source words left, and each one feels like a lead weight!

It strikes me suddenly that a proper review of the job should take 3 working days, which I don't have.

I'll have to improvise.

Cheers...

And now, harder...

I almost cracked a window with an expletive when Word threw an exception and changed all of my fonts to a sad mixture of WingDings and Greek letters. I exited the program without saving the file (all the translations are saved in the TRADOS knowledge base).

When I tried to open the file again, I was informed that I could not open the file while Word was saving it.

Farblegarg!

Anyway, after rebooting my machine, the silly fonts went away and I finished the document.

I am going to take a rest tonight. If I type one more line of "specification-ese," I think I will dismember something.

Slowly.

Cheers...

A translation machine...

A Houston client called earlier in the day to offer a five-page document with a due date of COB tomorrow. I figured I would be able to sqeeze it in as a change of pace while reviewing the 30,000 word monster I just finished.

So, I started on it a little while ago to get a feel for what the document was about (it wasn't the usual subject), and surfaced again four-and-a-half pages into the text, which was pretty straightforward.

So now, I have two documents to review tomorrow.

When it rains, man... it pours!

Cheers...