A morning of promise...

I awoke at 6 am this morning, but forced myself to go back to sleep for an hour. The goal of the day was to send off the two items due today at 10 am (done), and to get about 3,000 source words of a 21K source word document under the old belt.

At that rate, the job will take seven working days, and if you insert an interruption of two days to get Galina upon her return from Russia and drive back, that's nine days in all, giving me all of a one-day "buffer" to take care of contingencies.

(OMG, "contingencies"? What am I thinking? I'm beginning to talk like my clients!)

So far today, I'm in the middle - I think - of combining and compressing the Wordfast translation memories that are on my desktop and laptop. The process appears to have been going for an hour (eliminating roughly half of the 100,000 so-called 'translation units' in the 38 MB file, which were duplicated as a result of performing a merge operation). I suppose that as long as the disk activity LED flashes every few seconds, I've got no basis for complaint - except on general principles.

In between everything else, I really need to do something about my old, unmaintained, and ugly work-related web site. I've already successfully navigated the bumps involved in moving the site from one hosting provider to another, including getting the domain name transferred to me and uploading the old files to the new site. When I do eventually end up doing something, I plan to abandon tables for CSS, but that's a muse for another day.

Cheers...

Still spinning my wheels...

The flashing disk activity LED was a red herring. Word had quietly given up the ghost and nothing at all was being done with the translation memory file.

And now, I'm wondering just what happened to the file, as after merging two files that contain probably 80+% common entries, the routine in the older version of Wordfast found only 14 duplicates (out of 100K entries). I get the feeling that the idea I had some time ago, to create a MySQL app to tear apart, edit, and reassemble such files is probably not so bad, especially if I build in come capability of finding (and removing) duplicates and creating concordances.

Now, to find the time.

I need to jump on the Big Medical Job™ and soonest, as 3K source words is a hefty chunk of text.

Cheers...

110%...

...or thereabouts. I knocked off 3277 words (there are 17726 left). When I am finished, I shall have to review this document very carefully, as it is filled with all sorts of tedious, repetitious sentiments. (Then again, the review is likely to rapidly turn my brain to mush, too.)

In the meantime, I plan to goof off for another hour or so before going to bed.

Cheers...