Maybe I should oversleep every day...

I dealt with the switch to Daylight Saving Time via the simple expedient of replacing the alarm clock I had been using with the one I had used in Houston (which was still set to Central Standard Time), but didn't check the alarm setting before drifting off to sleep last night.

As a result I woke at nearly 8 am. (Actually, I woke some time earlier - probably at my normal 6 am - but since I knew I could not use the light filtering in through the blinds as a guide, I decided to go back and get a few z's and let the alarm wake me. Heh.)

The phone line is giving me trouble. I saw the DSL modem drop and then reacquire its signal as I was trying to send an email this morning. There is no cause and effect between the two, but when they happen at the same time, the e-mail does not go through. There is also a persistent hum in my earpiece when I'm on the phone with someone. I shall have to dig up the old phone I call my "handset" (simply because it has no base unit, being a real cheap premium Galina and I once received for listening to a time-share pitch) and go out to the utility box and plug directly into the jack that is the demarcation between "my" wire and "the phone company's" wire. If the hum is still there, then the problem (and likely the DSL dropout problem) is the phone company's. If not, then it's mine. "Ugh" to both alternatives, but I have to know.

Gotta run... my aerospace client just sent a short, urgent item that I think I'll use as a warmup for the pièce de résistance of the day: 3500 words of the BJF.

Cheers...

Wonderful...

The problem is on my side of the demarcation.

Cheers...

Time for some exercise...

The word count for the day stands at a little better than 5500, which is thanks mostly to the abundance of text with whose subject I am familiar.

I give appropriate thanks to St. Jerome.

The BJF has been divided into four parts, which means that I'll have Friday in which to review the work and/or handle the sticky parts.

Although I could probably go on for another 2-3 hours (gotta make sure that hyphen is in there!), I think I will call it a day, translation-wise. There is no need to squander the wonderful mood I am in entirely on work.

Besides working in my office and around the house, I need to do a little exercise. I haven't been able to get out much because it's been raining on and off for the past couple of days (indeed, this morning I awoke to a thin layer of snow on parts of the landscape - though not actually on the ground - which proceeded to melt with rapidity as the sun climbed into the sky). I think I'll go upstairs, eat a light dinner, and then go for a walk.

Cheers...