Daylight's burning...

The feasibility study is gone and invoiced.

There's still plenty of stuff on the plate, though, and I had better get started on it.

I did take some time out after sending off this morning's files to go down to the local recreation center and take a shower. (Sponge baths just don't let me feel clean!) Although the idea of going down there and getting guest passes has been in the air for a few days, it was Galina who finally moved off the stump and went down to get a package of 12 passes.

I now feel ready to take on the world (although if truth be told, all I have to do is finish 20 pages for tomorrow around noon).

I've got a 126-page PDF being OCR'd on my laptop, in preparation either for alignment into a TM or having terminology extracted (assuming the program designed to do that deigns to open the files).

One of the major advantages of living up as high as we do is the ability to let gravity start your car, especially when the battery is dead. The Honda made it to the store without incident, but the length of the trip wasn't anywhere near enough to charge the battery to where it will start the car again. Drew gave me a push start on the way home, and the Honda has been sitting outside for about 40 minutes now with the engine idling.

Time to go test it out, methinks.

Cheers...

I'm just curious...

Can someone explain why Microsoft Application Error Reporting requests an outbound connection to a Microsoft server before Word informs me that an error has occurred and then asks if I want to send an error report?

I had my firewall deny each request (there were three, which I assume were retries) and only after MAER stopped trying did Word inform me of the error and ask.

Very strange.

Cheers...

Drowning in information...

Absent a couple of small items that would as peas under a hundred mattresses worth of Real Work™, the next item on the plate is about 2,000 source words of selected individual pages from about 12 MB of PDF files wherein the principal language is, um, French.

Yee-aiiiiiy!

There are compensations, however, the primary of which is a whole lot of bilingual reference material! (I should probably not get too excited... some of what I've read thus far is not as rigorous as what I usually like to see in a translation, but I've barely scratched the surface of what's available.)

Frankly, as far as reference material is concerned, I'm drowning in possibilities. If only I had the time!

Cheers...