Done!

Well, despite several attempts to put off the inevitable, I finally finished today's slug.

My left eye... not so much hurts as isn't being very helpful at the moment.

There are two sections left, plus some miscellaneous files that I've been chopping away at, like unwanted underbrush.

The tax return translations must be finished by my COB on Tuesday.

The Horror must be finished by 8 am on Thursday.

I shall consider this while I am sleeping. Hopefully, my eye shall have recovered by then.

Cheers...

Losing it...

{2425}The tags{2426} {2427}that are {2428}scattered{2429} through{2430}out {2431}t{2432}h{2433}e text are really starting to annoy me.

As of a few minutes ago, I've laid 1500 source words to rest. There are just under 2000 to go. I think I will vector off and work on the tax return translation for a couple of hours, to take my mind off of segments like this:

the helmet crab {2425}Telmessus{2426} {2427}cheiragonus{2428} may be classified as a shallow-water species; among deep-water species are the golden king crab {2429}Lithodes{2430} {2431}aequispina{2432} and the triangle Tanner crab {2433}Chionoecetes{2434} {2435}angulatus{2436}, {2437}which are encountered at depths below 400 m;

Aaarggh!

Cheers...

A 3-1/2 hour "interlude"...

My bad.

My review of the tax returns to be translated was hasty, and my decision to start with the most recent one (on the assumption that tax returns tend to get more complicated over time) wasn't terribly swift, either, because Russian tax returns - just like the ones we have here - tend to change every year, but apparently they've tended to get simpler with time, if the ones in my possession are any indicator.

So, I've done two of the three returns I classified as "similar," which is good news, at least. The third return of similar format will doubtless have its own challenges, but the one that made my heart skip a beat was a computer printout of the oldest return, which is almost 1-1/2 times as large as the one for 2006 (16 pages).

So the current game plan is to finish today's slug of The Horror (still hovering at 1950 words left) and then do as much of the third similar return as possible before hitting the sack tonight. And maybe I'll get Galina or Natalie to press-check the two that I've done (which involves mostly just checking numbers, formatting, and "big picture" aspects of text).

Then tomorrow, I'll hit the ground hard with the rest of the tax translations and try hard to nail the last part of The Horror, so as to give myself a full day on Wednesday to wrap up all of The Horror's loose ends.

It's a plan, at least.

Ad argenta per aspera! (Probably wrong :^)

Cheers...

Oh, my, my!

It turns out the "actual" source word count for today's installment of The Horror was nearly 3800 words (which expands to about 4700 target words).

If we add in the tax returns, we end up with a nice, tidy sum of words for the day, somewhere around 13,000 target words. (Although in truth, most of the words for the "master" tas return translation were done over the past few days, and some percentage of those were "recycled" for the next one).

Tomorrow's source count on the last - yes, the very last chunk of TH - is just about the same, though there are a far cry more segments consisting of one and two words (which, strangely enough, take more time to translate if you care about the quality of the end product).

I shall give this some thought as I examine the inside lining of my eyelids tonight.

One more thing to add to the list of things to do, workwise: incorporate the redlines Natalie did for me on the two returns already done.

Cheers...