Noon check...

A considered review of the "state of the plate" shows that I'm not in all that much of a pickle, which continues a trend in which I've noticed that my immediate reaction is often to assume the worst, which later turns out to be not the case.

That said, I've still set some aggressive goals for myself this weekend. To meet them, I'll have to translate another 8,000 source words between the rest of the day today and all day tomorrow. Operating against me is the fact that I've already translated 2600 target words today, that a slug of 8,000 source words is pretty hefty for the remaining day and a half of this weekend, and that I plan to accompany Galina on a drive for a couple of hours later this afternoon.

Operating in my favor is the fact that I'm well acquainted with the subject of the document, which ought to make things go a whole lot faster. That, and whatever relaxation factor I can muster from the drive. :^)

To make life more interesting, I shall take a nap, methinks.

Cheers...

No brownie points for pushing it on Saturday night...

The nap was all too short, and the drive down to Hicksville (I can't get over the name, really) and back was uneventful.

I really didn't get down to work upon returning, however, and so it is that I find myself at a convenient stopping point (as in: I don't wanna do any more, tonight, m'kay?). All of the little jobs I agreed to do have been done, but not sent. Of the 8135 source words in the big job I'm trying to complete for Monday morning, I currently have just under 6,000 source words left. All in all, it's been a 4,000-plus-source-word day. I'm beat.

Fortunately, some part of the new document was recycled by the originator from a document I translated some time ago. I haven't been keeping track, but I'd say something like 10% of the segments in the new file are 90% or better matches to stuff I've already done, which has allowed me to get more done in the same amount of time.

One thing I will have to address tomorrow is a few computer-based training sessions that I was asked to complete by... this past Friday. Hopefully, I can still get Web access to the CBT sessions and report some results for Monday morning.

Cheers...