It's gonna be a lo-o-ong day...

I generally let off a little steam from time to time during the work day by hitting Slashdot. So far today, I don't think any of the postings have let up on the April 1st theme. Criminy.

[About an hour later, after realizing I'd left Semagic open while going off to work...]

The environmental management document is... done! As I suspected, these last 2600 words or so passed through Wordfast like so much grain through a goose, although there were a few places where it was obvious the Russian originator tried desperately to reduce his/her comprehensibility to zero.

I'm still mulling over just how much reformatting I'm going to do (I'm recalling the client once telling me I'm not to waste time formatting, but I know better). As the text became weirder and weirder toward the end, it became clear to me that whoever was processing this OCR output - and it most certainly was that - was getting tired, or pressed for time.

No matter. The important thing is, that it's done! (Can you tell I'm happy?)

So right now, I'm going to go take a walk. There's plenty more to do when I get back!

Cheers...

It just occurred to me...

That between the last 2400 words of yesterday's environmental job and the first 1600 words of today's aerospace job... that's another 4000 words! (If I could somehow keep that up... well, the paychecks'd be sweet, but I'd probably go nuts.)

Anyway, I only just realized that it's dark outside and that the store has been closed for over an hour. I've come to a convenient stopping point in the new translation, and figure I can probably finish the job on Saturday, leaving me more-or-less free on Sunday (although the job due next Friday looms).

During breaks in the day, it became evident that most of the newsletters, etc. I subscribe to have been bitten by the April Fool's bug, and even more evident that I am rapidly migrating toward the "humorless" end of the spectrum as I grow older.

I finally got a call from the Dish Network folks. Someone's coming by tomorrow to install the new equipment, which means that by this time tomorrow, if all goes well, it'll be addio! to DirecTV.

Cheers...

Stop the presses!

I would be remiss in failing to note the anniversary of the birth of papoose, one of the first people I added to my friends list, way back when!

Many more!

Cheers...