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C'est fini!
Jun. 9th, 2006 09:45 pmBut in a nice sense.
I finished off the French revisions (actually some additional pages the end client wanted translated) and sent them off earlier today, whereupon I took a look at the last two documents on my plate, only to find that the first of the two had already been translated (I hate it when that happens), and the last document was a puny 5 pages, where one page was basically a title and two other pages were very similar in content.
So, rather than nap prior to going in to the store, I finished the second document, putting all of the outstanding French work behind me for this go-around. Fortunately, I have a couple of radiograms and a contract to "keep me company" over the weekend.
My time at the store went smoothly, as did the time afterward. One of the hams stopped by the store earlier in the day to drop off a 10-speed bicycle that Drew swears we once used to own (and which he says we sold at a garage sale). I can't say one way or another, but the 10-speed has some advantages (it seems more stable) and some disadvantages (the handlebars are a little too narrow for my taste).
I didn't go to the ham breakfast this morning, mostly because I had the French work to finish, but also because I wasn't at all sure it would be held "within cycling distance," as some folks had balked at the new prices at the Lodge (I've been spending about the same amount of money, but not eating as high up on the menu, so to speak).
My adventure with TrueCrypt on the VAIO's Linux partition the other day had a wildly different explanation than the one that came to mind in medias res, so to speak. It turns out that in order to mount a TrueCrypt "volume" in Linux, you have to have root privileges, which are granted by the 'sudo' command. When prompted by 'sudo' to enter the root password, I forgot what I was doing and entered the passphrase for the TrueCrypt volume.
Duh!
As it turns out, with the upgrade to the latest/greatest version of Linux in Dapper Drake, I had to rebuild and reinstall the TrueCrypt module, but having done so, alles ist jetzt in ordnung, ifyanowhadImean.
Wow. Twenty-two hundred already... time to start thinking about sleep.
Cheers...
I finished off the French revisions (actually some additional pages the end client wanted translated) and sent them off earlier today, whereupon I took a look at the last two documents on my plate, only to find that the first of the two had already been translated (I hate it when that happens), and the last document was a puny 5 pages, where one page was basically a title and two other pages were very similar in content.
So, rather than nap prior to going in to the store, I finished the second document, putting all of the outstanding French work behind me for this go-around. Fortunately, I have a couple of radiograms and a contract to "keep me company" over the weekend.
My time at the store went smoothly, as did the time afterward. One of the hams stopped by the store earlier in the day to drop off a 10-speed bicycle that Drew swears we once used to own (and which he says we sold at a garage sale). I can't say one way or another, but the 10-speed has some advantages (it seems more stable) and some disadvantages (the handlebars are a little too narrow for my taste).
I didn't go to the ham breakfast this morning, mostly because I had the French work to finish, but also because I wasn't at all sure it would be held "within cycling distance," as some folks had balked at the new prices at the Lodge (I've been spending about the same amount of money, but not eating as high up on the menu, so to speak).
My adventure with TrueCrypt on the VAIO's Linux partition the other day had a wildly different explanation than the one that came to mind in medias res, so to speak. It turns out that in order to mount a TrueCrypt "volume" in Linux, you have to have root privileges, which are granted by the 'sudo' command. When prompted by 'sudo' to enter the root password, I forgot what I was doing and entered the passphrase for the TrueCrypt volume.
Duh!
As it turns out, with the upgrade to the latest/greatest version of Linux in Dapper Drake, I had to rebuild and reinstall the TrueCrypt module, but having done so, alles ist jetzt in ordnung, ifyanowhadImean.
Wow. Twenty-two hundred already... time to start thinking about sleep.
Cheers...
