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First day back...
Dec. 11th, 2006 08:31 pmWhen Friday passed with no notification of any assignments for the week, I simply sighed and was happy that I have an outstanding assignment on my plate. This morning, as I walked from the bank (where I had just cashed in $37 in coin) to the supermarket, my phone rang and I was back in the thick of it.
By 11 am, I was supporting the Russian simulation group, most of which was now not working sims, but supporting the actual flight. In between breaths, I managed to get a flu shot during lunch, and I don't know if it's the shot or something else, but something made me feel awfully tired for most of the afternoon. Right now, my eyes feel almost scratchy. Fortunately for me, the second half of my NASA flight controller's physical is tomorrow. While nothing in life is a slam-dunk, I am hopeful that my medical certificate to work mission consoles will be renewed.
I took a lot of stuff along on the cruise that I ultimately didn't even look at: things such as DVDs, writing paper, and a couple of as-yet unread books. Then again, during the cruise I did manage to become more familiar with the tools available as part of the Wordfast software package. One of them is the capability of "aligning" a source and target text, so that each segment of the source is matched to the corresponding segment in the target, with the eventual idea being of creating a translation memory database file.
The client blessed me with a pair of reference files that served as very good subjects for alignment, containing a minimum of hiccups. After creating the translation memory database, I ran an analysis on the file to be translated and was hit by good news: there's a lot of repetition going on. (Now, to find the time to go do it all!)
More good news: my Russian client from Thanksgiving weekend paid my invoice within exactly 15 days, even though I allowed 30 days. This might be just the result of a serendipitous conjunction of dates, but however you cut it, it is excellent news.
Maybe I'll just take it easy for the rest of the evening and catch up on rest. In addition to the physical, I'm assigned to support the sim team for the rest of the day.
Cheers...
By 11 am, I was supporting the Russian simulation group, most of which was now not working sims, but supporting the actual flight. In between breaths, I managed to get a flu shot during lunch, and I don't know if it's the shot or something else, but something made me feel awfully tired for most of the afternoon. Right now, my eyes feel almost scratchy. Fortunately for me, the second half of my NASA flight controller's physical is tomorrow. While nothing in life is a slam-dunk, I am hopeful that my medical certificate to work mission consoles will be renewed.
I took a lot of stuff along on the cruise that I ultimately didn't even look at: things such as DVDs, writing paper, and a couple of as-yet unread books. Then again, during the cruise I did manage to become more familiar with the tools available as part of the Wordfast software package. One of them is the capability of "aligning" a source and target text, so that each segment of the source is matched to the corresponding segment in the target, with the eventual idea being of creating a translation memory database file.
The client blessed me with a pair of reference files that served as very good subjects for alignment, containing a minimum of hiccups. After creating the translation memory database, I ran an analysis on the file to be translated and was hit by good news: there's a lot of repetition going on. (Now, to find the time to go do it all!)
More good news: my Russian client from Thanksgiving weekend paid my invoice within exactly 15 days, even though I allowed 30 days. This might be just the result of a serendipitous conjunction of dates, but however you cut it, it is excellent news.
Maybe I'll just take it easy for the rest of the evening and catch up on rest. In addition to the physical, I'm assigned to support the sim team for the rest of the day.
Cheers...
