A good thing I took a nap...

It was kind of a late nap, so I'm not terribly surprised that I'm still up and not yawning like crazy.

There was virtually no expansion in the last 2,000 words of the rush job, which was pretty good, because I wasn't looking for any one-day records. I did manage to do a review a couple of hours ago, fixing a number of minor careless errors in the process, and I'm happy that the job went out the wire. I'll invoice it tomorrow (and there is a big sign on my office door to remind me).

For the past 40 minutes or so, I've been toying with the French job, which is far from being as hairy as the references sent along with it might indicate.

At least so far.

I finished Robert B. Parker's All Our Yesterdays, and it was quite a change from what I had become accustomed to seeing from him, except perhaps in his depiction of life between men and women. His theme of "can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em" (no doubt criminally oversimplified by me) seems to be almost a trademark of any Parker story, and it was certainly in evidence here, in a story that reminded me (somewhat) of a tale spun by James Ellroy.

I am puttering along on fumes right now. It's time to shut down the computer and go to bed.

Cheers...

Testing...

I lied about going to sleep... went to check out the friends' page, and again, Russian text displays like UTF-8 having a bad hair day.

So... a little test, using a paragraph from a "story" on Lenta.ru:

По данным британской газеты The Independent, захват британских моряков Ираном стал ответом на неудавшуюся попытку американских военных захватить на севере Ирака высокопоставленных сотрудников иранских спецслужб.

According to the British newspaper The Independent, the seizure of British sailors by Iran was a response to an unsuccessful attempt by the US military to capture high-ranking Iranian intelligence officers in northern Iraq.

Can I read the Cyrillic after posting? (We already know The Independent is full of it, and is trying to recycle January's news, but I digress...)

Cheers...

UPDATE (moments after posting): Hmmm. No problems reading this post. So why am I having the same problem (правильно) on two different machines using different browsers?

UPDATE (4/3/07): To clarify, I had no trouble reading my post, but still had problems reading Cyrillic on my friends page, unless I clicked on a special link I have that displays only a subset of posts by friends (leaving out communities). In any event, today, everything seems to display correctly, everywhere.

Not as hectic, today...

Two jobs to do today, totaling about 2100 source words, both for European clients, both due tomorrow.

Both done (though not yet sent).

A telecon in the hopper for tomorrow morning means both jobs will have to be out the wire before I leave the house.

Otherwise, it's been a pretty quiet day.

* * *I need to find a better plug for the bottom of one of the containers I transplanted the tomatoes into, as the impromptu styrofoam plug I fashioned is not doing the job.

* * *I am becoming more acutely aware of the way I react to chasing paper, and I can see where something has to change, or break (I'm voting for the former, myself :^). Tomorrow, I must go by our "old" tax preparer and pick up the pieces.

Cheers...