All too short...

Preferring to consider the glass half full, I am happy that Natalie could come visit for the past few days. (Traveling home on Christmas Day also has its benfits, as in: there was virtually no traffic to deal with while taking Natalie to the airport!)

This year, the house lacks the trappings of the season, but I like to think our hearts do not. Next year, I plan to return to the Chistmases of my youth. I am grateful to be alive, and would like to convey best wishes and thanks to those in the armed services who are not at home with loved ones at this time of year.

Cheers...

2007 end-of-year meme...

Looks like this one is coming/going around again:

Post the first sentence from the first post of every month in 2007.

January

The "live" goings-on in Times Square were replayed for us out here in the sticks (Mountain Time), where we got to see Dick Clark one more time (not speaking so well, but still carrying on... many more, Dick!), and it's now "officially" 2007.

February

Events meshed well this morning.

March

...but at least I'm home now.

Apeil

The neat thing about programming with C++Builder is the ability to create applications out of components that, in a programming sense, already "know" how to do things.

May

Via the NYT

June

Today's stint at the MCC went well, capped off with a fairly long discussion of what's called the "pressure profile" aboard the ISS during and after the docked phase of flight 13A (coming up in the near future).

July

Just short of midnight, I came to a convenient stopping point, with 4000 source words left in the main document.

August

One of the side effects of having clients who pay over terms longer than 30 days (and sometimes even longer than whatever period they commit to) has been a perceived need to send monthly statements at the end of the month, which corresponds to the time that all work for the month for such clients must be invoiced.

September

Someday, when I have more time, I shall have to find a dependable, inexpensive replacement for iTunes (I tried Winamp, but it eventually succeeded in corrupting the database on my iPod).

October

I am told that translators working in Europe often have to wait for inordinately long periods to get paid, and I've proof it's no exaggeration.

November

Shiloh almost invariably gets me out of bed at 7 am, whereupon I pull on some clothes and we go outside, where she does her thing out in front of the house.

December

The translation is finished and has been in the editor's inbox since 8:30 am his time.

I'm just noticing: 5 of the 12 deal with work. (Probably an under-representation.)

Cheers...