Glide path...

It's been a fairly slow-to-medium Saturday at the store, which is far from saying that this place can be run with one person. For one thing, it's impossible to go out to get anything to eat during store hours; for another, even making head calls is difficult.

I've been looking around for some kind of French-English technical dictionary as a general reference, even though all of my work to date has relied on the availability of online references. The dictionary suggested by LJ friend brenk does indeed cost an arm and a leg (something like 150-180 euros, used) and I might someday consider acquiring it, but not now.

I did find a two-volume French-English & English-French Dictionary of Technical Terms and Phrases by one J. O. Kettridge (published by Routledge in 1973) on eBay about 10 days ago, being offered for a reasonable amount of money (about 20 euros), so I bought it. (And if my general need of such a reference isn't reason enough, the fact that a copy of the 1980 edition runs about 130 euros!)

The volumes arrived today. I look forward to reviewing them later today. One particularly intriguing feature advertised on the front cover is this:

A method of TELEGRAPHIC CODING by which any entry in the dictionary can be expressed by a 10-letter cipher word with indicator and check.

Oh, my, my! That could be fun.

But first, I must finish lunch ('sushi' from next door, and a Guinness). Then I need to close the store, at least enough to go home with a clean conscience. And finally, while biking home, I need to stop by the health food store for some supplements.

Cheers...