Events in motion...

Yesterday, I managed to check 14,000 words of the BHHR due Monday and then translated about 1200 of the 2500 words in the job that needed translating. In between, I spoke with Galina a few times, with the calls becoming more frequent as she got closer to New York.

At one point, when I asked where she was, she told me she was in New Jersey, and that was passing a sign telling her how far it was to Hershey. Seeing as Hershey is in Pennsylvania, I experienced a bad moment as I concluded that she had somehow gotten turned around on I-78 and was headed west, away from New York, until I calmed down and realized that "Hey, she's not in Jersey at all. She actually has no idea where she is, outside of being on I-78 somewhere!" (Now that's a mental monologue guaranteed to calm one down, wouldn't you agree?)

In the end, it all worked out. At around 9 pm, I drove down to the KFC/Taco Bell near the Greenvale LIRR station to guide her in over the last few miles to the house.

* * *I currently have about 500 words left to translate of the BHHR. And, despite my best intentions, I accepted another 5,000 words for Monday morning. I have no excuse (other than the usual one having to do with paying bills), though I will note, in my defense, that I declined three - if memory serves - other jobs before I couldn't take it any more and snapped. I've since declined one more job.

Everything might work out yet (and actually, it will anyway), as Natalie will be doing the AirTrain/LIRR thing to get here from the airport and won't get here until 5:30 pm today at the earliest. This leaves me with at least 6 hours to finish the current job and put a sizeable dent in what was described to me by the client as "easy text." We'll see.

Easy or not, it won't get done unless I turn to.

Cheers...

2/3

If I had stuck to my guns, I would have been finished with work until Natalie goes back to Houston (on Christmas Day, no less!). As it is, I've a hair less than 2,000 words left of the 6,000 I started with this morning.

I would have gotten more done, but around the time Natalie's plane was approaching JFK, I tuned into an interesting site that will allow you to track a flight using Google Earth. It was uncanny to see Natalie's flight approach New York from west-by-northwest, fly over midtown Manhattan, then over the airport, and then make a long, sweeping turn to the right, turning final to land from the southwest (on either 4L or 4R, the data update interval was too long for me to tell).

It's getting late, and I'm not going to make much more progress with the translation tonight.

Cheers...