A hectic day...

Considering that we need to be on the road in... between one and two hours, there was no reasonable way to get everything done that needed doing by Monday. Nor was there a great need to do so, as a large part of the translations I need to finish are actually due Tuesday.

So I translated one new and reworked one old hazard report, checked them, and sent them off. Then I finished the item for the new client, and had hoped to print out a copy to look at while on the plane tomorrow, but there seems to be a lack of blank paper around here. Hmmm...

That leaves less than a dozen new hazard reports whose translated siblings take between 20 and 30 minutes each to translate (so figure ~5 hours of work).

For the past hour or so, I've been doing some of the other things that've been piling on my plate for the past couple of weeks: the mail-in ballot, the unemployment insurance for the store, opening mail, staging the paperwork for a new Russian visa (should a Letter of Invitation suddenly appear), staging other paperwork in a portable accordion file.

Fact of little value: When replacing the black ink cartridge in my Epson, the difference in weight between the full and empty cartridge was 0.5 oz, according to the postal scale (15 g or so). At $12 or $13 per cartridge, that's about $400 per pound ($880 per kilo)! Yikes!

(But as I said, not very useful information.)

What's left?

I've got to pack, and not for the kind of casual style you can get away with at home and out on the street, but in the hope that I'll be called to go to Houston next week (i.e., "work casual" clothes).

Do I have my NASA badge? Yes.

I also need to make sure I've captured all necessary information off my desktop. Le sigh.

I've got to resurrect my travel check list.

Cheers...