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Another long one...
Apr. 12th, 2006 08:57 pmAnd not much time to post.
The work came at me today at such a tempo that, for a while, I failed to follow the methodical filing system I created at the start of the year to keep track of assignments. I caught up eventually, but in the future I have to make sure I don't jump the gun and start working on things before I get organized. The job may not be done until the paperwork is finished, says the old cartoon, but it shouldn't commence until the paperwork is started, either.
The "take" for the day was a short item in the morning (500 words), another 535 words almost immediately after that, 1120 words in the afternoon, and 1750 words in the late afternoon.
Hey! That's very nearly a 4,000 word day!
It's getting to the point where I'm going to have to hunker down and finish the robotics text, because time is getting short. (Robotics is on tap for tomorrow.)
Nothing much else to report, except that I went in for my semi-annual scalping at the local tonsorial parlor. (I am told that, if you administer atropine eye drops in your eyes and cover your head with a blanket, you might mistake me for George Clooney if you confine your tactile examination to the top of my head).
Updating Ubuntu went off like a dream: type a one-liner in a terminal session and go off and drink coffee. I am impressed. And updated.
On the other tentacle, for some reason, Word apparently does not like the reduction in my system's memory, as it blew cyberchunks several times today (once even causing a BSOD owing to a memory management malfunction). However, aside from that, there were no spontaneous BSODs. I plan to expand my system memory back to its former 1-GB size while in El Paso. (If the price is right, I might even go past 1 GB.)
Also, I managed to confirm that the Word behavior I experience using Wordfast - the sudden, unexplained, and un-undoable conversion of text segment to the "other" language" - goes on among users of Trados as well, and the solution is to uncheck that "Automatically detect language" check box. Ah, progress.
I continue to review (endless) documents in preparation for next week's gig. I don't think I've ever had so much stuff to review in advance of an assignment.
Cheers...
The work came at me today at such a tempo that, for a while, I failed to follow the methodical filing system I created at the start of the year to keep track of assignments. I caught up eventually, but in the future I have to make sure I don't jump the gun and start working on things before I get organized. The job may not be done until the paperwork is finished, says the old cartoon, but it shouldn't commence until the paperwork is started, either.
The "take" for the day was a short item in the morning (500 words), another 535 words almost immediately after that, 1120 words in the afternoon, and 1750 words in the late afternoon.
Hey! That's very nearly a 4,000 word day!
It's getting to the point where I'm going to have to hunker down and finish the robotics text, because time is getting short. (Robotics is on tap for tomorrow.)
Nothing much else to report, except that I went in for my semi-annual scalping at the local tonsorial parlor. (I am told that, if you administer atropine eye drops in your eyes and cover your head with a blanket, you might mistake me for George Clooney if you confine your tactile examination to the top of my head).
Updating Ubuntu went off like a dream: type a one-liner in a terminal session and go off and drink coffee. I am impressed. And updated.
On the other tentacle, for some reason, Word apparently does not like the reduction in my system's memory, as it blew cyberchunks several times today (once even causing a BSOD owing to a memory management malfunction). However, aside from that, there were no spontaneous BSODs. I plan to expand my system memory back to its former 1-GB size while in El Paso. (If the price is right, I might even go past 1 GB.)
Also, I managed to confirm that the Word behavior I experience using Wordfast - the sudden, unexplained, and un-undoable conversion of text segment to the "other" language" - goes on among users of Trados as well, and the solution is to uncheck that "Automatically detect language" check box. Ah, progress.
I continue to review (endless) documents in preparation for next week's gig. I don't think I've ever had so much stuff to review in advance of an assignment.
Cheers...
