Have I mentioned how much I love accounting language?

Not!

В случае, если организация использует средства полученных займов и кредитов для осуществления предварительной оплаты материально - производственных запасов, других ценностей, работ, услуг или выдачи авансов и задатков в счет их оплаты, то расходы по обслуживанию указанных займов и кредитов относятся организацией - заемщиком на увеличение дебиторской задолженности, образовавшейся в связи с предварительной оплатой и (или) выдачей авансов и задатков на указанные выше цели.

In the case where an organization uses funds from procured debt and borrowing to make an advance payment for inventory, other assets, work, services, or for payment of advances or earnest money toward their payment, then the expenses for servicing the given debt and borrowing are classified by the borrowing organization as increasing accounts receivable that are created in connection with the advance payment and/or issue of payment of advances or earnest money for the purposes mentioned above.

There are currently 4232 source words left in the project, which is due by mid-afternoon tomorrow. For me to have a realistic chance of crossing the finish line, so to speak, without gnawing my fingernails to the quick, I figure I'll have to do finish at least half of that before I go to sleep tonight.

Cheers...

Catching my breath, and that strange thing called "up"...

I will eventually run out of John Sandford novels about Lucas Davenport, which will be both a good thing and a bad thing. Good, from the point of view that my life won't be turned topsy-turvy just because I happened to innocently start reading one of his books (I finished Secret Prey yesterday after everyone else had gone to sleep); bad, from the point of view that, well... there won't be any books left to turn my life topsy-turvy.

Ah, well.

For the first time ever, we hung on to a kiosk-vended DVD for a second night, in light of Natalie's visit and her desire to view Casino Royale. Natalie noticed the difference immediately, even if it did take a moment or two to get her bearings.

Things I noticed about this film included (and I try to not include spoilers, but you can never tell...):

1. A short, brief opening sequence that was very spare, involved no far-out hardware, yet managed to segue smoothly into the trademark Bond "turn-and-shoot" gesture.

2. A completely revamped set of opening credits that are completely bereft of nude female silhouettes.

3. Not a whiff of Q branch, really, except for the RFID chip, which was more for M's benefit than Bond's. (Can anyone tell me what role the chip played, other than to have some high-tech in the film?)

4. Apropos of Q branch, no tricked-out car, though it was nice of the writers to hearken back to a '64 Aston Martin.

The cognitive dissonance I mentioned in an earlier post comes from the fact that in Casino Royale, Bond has only just been selected as a double-oh in the modern day (2006), whereas his boss in the film, the ever-present "M" - played by the wonderfully apt Judi Densch - is already familiar to us in films featuring Pierce Brosnan's Bond (starting with Golden Eye). It's enough to make your head spin, if just for a moment or two.

The role written for Daniel Craig (the actor who plays Bond) doesn't let him try to imitate his predecessors, I suspect because his character is still an outsider to the double-oh tradition. So you don't get all the blasé sophistication of the early Bond or the bad puns and affectations of the later Bonds that you've come to expect - and endure - in previous outings (the example I have in mind is the response to the bartender's "Shaken or stirred?" question when our hero ordered a martini). On the other hand, it's hard to imagine Craig's Bond as a Commander in the British Navy (as a senior noncom, yes, but not an officer).

The result is something that seems to be a cross between a noir whodunit where people jump into and out of taxis more often than kids at a swimming pool on a hot day, and an episode of Spencer, For Hire shot in plusher surroundings.

I enjoyed the film both times I saw it.

Time to hit the sack. Tomorrow's assignment is clear.

Cheers...