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A long, tiring day...
Jun. 5th, 2006 10:22 pmI had a lot of trouble sleeping last night, both due to the heat and a residual ache in my jaw. Like it or not, I'll have to go visit a dentist and soon.
Chris is no longer available to help out at the store, so my participation level just went up, despite Shannon being there. Huntür was being a darling today, sitting on a stool next to the cash register and asking each customer if she could help them. If only the tyke could make change...
Anyway, I stayed to close the store and Drew came by to drive me home.
My desktop has been giving me fits all day long. Word has been throwing errors every few minutes since I got home, and the other problems I've experienced today have caused me to lose about 5 pages of translation, and while it's generally faster to recover lost translations when you retype them, part of the task was to implement a certain formatting to the document, which doesn't really get much faster the second time around. I'm beginning to think maybe it's past time for me to upgrade to XP on my desktop, which has been running Windows 2000 and has been acting flaky since I "upgraded" the machine with Service Pack 3.
The other alternative, of course, is to upgrade the entire machine (i.e., get a new one), but I don't think that's a viable idea at this time, as "spare" money is getting really hard to come by. (Heck, even buying a copy of XT doesn't sound so attractive.)
Speaking (indirectly) of work, I did finish one document and am about 40% of the way through a second. There is one short document in the wings and a collection of miscellaneous pages to take care of as well, so I'm more or less spoken for until Thursday, I guess.
Over the weekend, Olga F. sent a sample of a 36,000-source word non-technical French document, the story of a Holacaust survivor, to see if I was interested. I was, except the deadline for the job was two weeks, which would pretty much require me to put in 3500-4000 words a day for pretty much the entire two weeks, which is an unknown for me working in French (and non-technical French, at that, which is actually somewhat harder for me to do). It would also kill my ability to do anything else for any other client for the duration, so I regretfully had to decline the work.
I hate doing that, and hope it's not something I'll regret doing.
It's hot. I think I may take a cool shower and hit the sack.
Cheers...
Chris is no longer available to help out at the store, so my participation level just went up, despite Shannon being there. Huntür was being a darling today, sitting on a stool next to the cash register and asking each customer if she could help them. If only the tyke could make change...
Anyway, I stayed to close the store and Drew came by to drive me home.
My desktop has been giving me fits all day long. Word has been throwing errors every few minutes since I got home, and the other problems I've experienced today have caused me to lose about 5 pages of translation, and while it's generally faster to recover lost translations when you retype them, part of the task was to implement a certain formatting to the document, which doesn't really get much faster the second time around. I'm beginning to think maybe it's past time for me to upgrade to XP on my desktop, which has been running Windows 2000 and has been acting flaky since I "upgraded" the machine with Service Pack 3.
The other alternative, of course, is to upgrade the entire machine (i.e., get a new one), but I don't think that's a viable idea at this time, as "spare" money is getting really hard to come by. (Heck, even buying a copy of XT doesn't sound so attractive.)
Speaking (indirectly) of work, I did finish one document and am about 40% of the way through a second. There is one short document in the wings and a collection of miscellaneous pages to take care of as well, so I'm more or less spoken for until Thursday, I guess.
Over the weekend, Olga F. sent a sample of a 36,000-source word non-technical French document, the story of a Holacaust survivor, to see if I was interested. I was, except the deadline for the job was two weeks, which would pretty much require me to put in 3500-4000 words a day for pretty much the entire two weeks, which is an unknown for me working in French (and non-technical French, at that, which is actually somewhat harder for me to do). It would also kill my ability to do anything else for any other client for the duration, so I regretfully had to decline the work.
I hate doing that, and hope it's not something I'll regret doing.
It's hot. I think I may take a cool shower and hit the sack.
Cheers...
