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You don't always get what you want...
Jun. 20th, 2003 11:38 pmI had intended to go with Galina to Farmington today and do some shopping, but between Galina's not being able to sleep through part of the night (resulting in a slow start in the morning) and a need for me to get cracking on translations, we ended up each going our separate ways for the day.
The doctor's appointment modified my meds again, and I'm due to return in a few weeks for testing. Studying will not help. :^)
My cut-and-dried numerical approach to translation set a quota for the day of just over 2500 source words (which, times four, gets me through the stuff on my plate by the end of Monday, albeit with no time off). Since my TRADOS dongle is in Texas, I attacked my pile with Déjà Vu.
The way a TM tool splits segments can be unsettling. After what seemed like forever, I was only 200-some-odd segments into a 1000-segment job, and starting to tire. On a whim, I took a look at where I actually was in the document (via Word) and found, to my surprise, that I had long ago exceeded my quota, and was closing in on 3000 source words. After a couple more hours of work, I finished the job (short of the review, of course), which masses in at just over 3800 source words.
In theory, this makes for a pretty light load over the next three days, if I choose to simply divide what remains by three. It'll depend on how well I do with the texts that remain (having to do with soil mechanics, my utterly favorite subject... ). If I start off well with the first document, who knows, maybe I'll take some time and go driving in the hills, which have gotten pretty wet these past few days. Or maybe go visit the kids and renew my acquaintance with Huntur.
* * * The crowd was light at the morning's ham radio breakfast, but that was okay. I caught up on some local gossip and was briefly the center of attention for a while as I recounted my trip to Kazakhstan.
Talking about Kazakhstan, here's a photo of a suspicious character lounging in front of the Antonov cargo plane as it was being prepared for loading at the Yubileinyi airport on June 10:
In case anyone should get the impression that the Antonov is some kind of ordinary sized airplane, check out this shot of the satellite container being positioned onto tracks in preparation for being winched into the plane.
* * * It's getting late and there's lots to do tomorrow. Good night.
Cheers...
The doctor's appointment modified my meds again, and I'm due to return in a few weeks for testing. Studying will not help. :^)
My cut-and-dried numerical approach to translation set a quota for the day of just over 2500 source words (which, times four, gets me through the stuff on my plate by the end of Monday, albeit with no time off). Since my TRADOS dongle is in Texas, I attacked my pile with Déjà Vu.
The way a TM tool splits segments can be unsettling. After what seemed like forever, I was only 200-some-odd segments into a 1000-segment job, and starting to tire. On a whim, I took a look at where I actually was in the document (via Word) and found, to my surprise, that I had long ago exceeded my quota, and was closing in on 3000 source words. After a couple more hours of work, I finished the job (short of the review, of course), which masses in at just over 3800 source words.
In theory, this makes for a pretty light load over the next three days, if I choose to simply divide what remains by three. It'll depend on how well I do with the texts that remain (having to do with soil mechanics, my utterly favorite subject... ). If I start off well with the first document, who knows, maybe I'll take some time and go driving in the hills, which have gotten pretty wet these past few days. Or maybe go visit the kids and renew my acquaintance with Huntur.
Talking about Kazakhstan, here's a photo of a suspicious character lounging in front of the Antonov cargo plane as it was being prepared for loading at the Yubileinyi airport on June 10:
In case anyone should get the impression that the Antonov is some kind of ordinary sized airplane, check out this shot of the satellite container being positioned onto tracks in preparation for being winched into the plane.
Cheers...
