Dontcha just love it!

I just finished one of those jobs where, basically, in addition to doing whatever translation is necessary, I was to choreograph my way into and out of revisions mode so as to make the revisions that appear in the Russian translation appear in the English original as well. I found this is exceedingly hard to do, given the following circumstances:

• Revisions - if that is what they were intended to be - were marked by hand.


• Markup that appears to reflect text added to the translation often corresponds to text that already appears in the original document.


• Markup that appears to reflect text deleted from the translation frequently corresponds to text that does not appear in the original document.


• Some of the text that appears in the translation with no markup does not appear in the original document.

I am also bothered by the fact that, in places, the English - which is supposed to be the original document - makes no sense (or at least not as much sense as the translation). Fortunately, this abomination was only 4 pages long, and I still love my job.

Now, for some coffee.

Cheers...

Eclipse redux...

When I went outside last night at around 9 pm, there were high clouds in the sky that did not obscure the Moon, but did block out any other celestial objects that might otherwise be seen on a clear night.

By the time the Earth, Moon, and Sun were colinear, at around 10 pm local time, the sky had cleared up to the extent that I could make out Saturn to the left of the Moon and a star (Regulus?) above it. The Moon was a sort of a pinkish-peach color, and although I tried taking photographs, none of them came out worth a flip ("See that pink dot?")

One of these days, I'm going to get a digital SLR with a zoom lens.

Cheers...

Not much progress...

At all. And I wonder, "Where did the day go?"

Tomorrow had better turn out to be a major catch-up day, or I am going to be in deep guacamole, especially since another 3,000 words came in today for Monday morning.

Cheers...

UPDATE: I figured I'd work until 11 pm and get to the end of the current section, except that I've gone on to reformat tomorrow's slug of work. I can't believe it's really almost midnight! Yikes!