Daylight's nearly half burnt...

I hadn't realized the alarm clock in my room was inaccurate until Drew called this morning to find out if someone could open the store for him. I thought he was calling at 7:45; he was actually calling at 7:23. Galina and I flipped a coin, and as it did not come down on its edge, I got to go to the store.

This morning was not all that bad, except for the lady who brought in four packages that were so small, it was a wonder one could find a place to affix postage at all (even sacrificing the return address). Regardless of the clientele, however, opening the store and being there for any length of time in the morning drains my energy quickly, so I was glad to get out of there about an hour ago, and it was a good thing, too.

It turns out a couple of translation items I had held back for review last night were due at the client's office by 10 am my time. The review went well and I delivered the documents on time, but I cut things uncomfortably close.

I went ahead and bought tickets for New York for Sunday, and I hope things work out so that I can fly from New York to Houston the following week.

Travel ain't all it's cracked up to be, sometimes.

Cheers...

Catch-up...

I finally ran iPodder on my desktop, for the first time in it seems eternity, and ended up downloading over a gig of material, including all the recent stuff from the Bluegrass Preservation Society and botar's old time radio, so I guess I'll have stuff to listen to on the way to New York.

I managed to process just about half the new translation work from my Houston client (a horde of new safety reports), and put away another 1400 words of the work for the new client (who happens to be in New York... with just a little effort and less brains, I could probably hand-deliver the translation, but I digress...). This puts me in fabulous position to finish everything that was piled on my plate before leaving for Albuquerque, um, tomorrow.

Ulp!

Flying from Durango turned out to be about 65% more expensive and involved flying to Phoenix (or further west) before heading east on a redeye. Taking that into account, a round trip to Albuquerque seems a small price to pay for a reasonable itinerary that doesn't try to stress me out.

In other audio news, I only just found out (which means that you have probably learned and forgotten) that the latest version of Winamp (5.1) comes with something described as "AOL Radio with XM," which is fairly nifty. I'd probably go and spring for the whole nine yards and subscribe to either XM or Sirius if they offered something really offbeat, such as broadcasts from Russia or France, which for now remain out of "normal" reach (but one can still hope).

Tomorrow, I plan to finish the item for the new client as well as the remaining new and rework files. That will leave only a review to be performed before submitting them.

And invoicing them, to be sure. :^)

Cheers...