Keepin' on keepin' on...

I worked through most of yesterday afternoon editing a 6,000-word translation that might be called... no, that's not right. I was about to say "a glaring example of why one should not translate out of one's native language," but was stopped by the memory of a different recent document that is a much better candidate (and oh, do I wish I had snagged a copy, but I didn't... then again, what would I have done with it?)

Wow. Talk about having your train of thought getting derailed. Anyway...

I finally put the thing to sleep around 6 pm, when I went upstairs to fix some food for me and Ming (separately, in case you're wondering). For a lark, I flipped around the channels on the idiot box and saw that Thomas Crown Affair was starting in a few minutes.

Not the fairly entertaining remake of recent vintage, but the original McCoy, from 1968, featuring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway.

Fortunately, dinner was almost ready, so I served the two of us and proceeded to absorb this classic. I loved it. It's not quite as polished as the remake, but its cinematography is remarkable in its own way. I thought the use of the windows was an effective way of emphasizing simultaneity and the chess game between Dunaway and McQueen was marvelous.

I fell asleep early, but woke up at midnight, wide awake and could not go back to sleep. So, I returned to my office, did a spell check of the document I'd finished editing, and then packaged it up for delivery.

I finally fell asleep around 3 am.

This morning's routine has been, well, routine. I returned around 10:30, napped, and then set about invoicing my two week assignment. I kid you not, it seems there are more and more hoops to jump through every time I do this. In the end, I produced an invoice with eleven attachments (various authorizations and time sheets). OTOH, the payday is not exactly painful to look at, if you get my drift.

I have two translation documents due tomorrow morning, but I'll worry about them after the store closes, (though I may take the shorter of the two along with me here shortly and do it in between customers).

I am still not caught up, but hey, I'm just one guy. I'll get there.

Cheers...

Posting by mail...

I can't easily find the posts I made using it, but the 'Perl/1.0.1 (a) 9/16: 00, alexpgp' client listed in my profile was an early attempt on my part to create a post-by-email capability that has been recently added to the goodies available to paid accounts here on LJ.

* * *It's been a pretty lively afternoon here at the store, so I wasn't able to do anything with the translation. It's a shortie, anyhow, so I don't anticipate problems doing it tonight along with the Excel file that arrived earlier today. I did manage to deposit some checks in the bank (with Huntur as my bodyguard) and to pay some bills.

I do need to go do some shopping before the store closes, however.

Cheers...

P.S. Incoming mail needs to have no carriage returns, else the post will.

[UPDATE: The date in the client description (9/16) ought to have given me a clue as to where to look for the posts I mention. Here, of course.]

And just in time, too...

I've finished first passes for both documents due tomorrow, and will check them tomorrow before sending them.

Déjà Vu made it possible for me to whittle a fairly large Excel file down to size. The only fly in the ointment was having to have the file open on a neighboring machine, because the client doesn't want the whole thing translated (only one column). I could probably have made my life easier by first copying the column to a separate spreadsheet and then translating that file, but that idea only occurred to me after getting deeply into the work.

And so, it's off to sleep. Hopefully, tonight I will experience a better quality of shuteye than I've been able to the past couple of nights.

Cheers...