Hey! There's words creeping into my sentences!

The Russian is nearly as, um, terse as this translation:

...power transited from the ISS USOS EPS through the FGB PDGF, the SSRMS, and the MRM1 PVGF.

Cheers...

I would not be here now if I never had the hunger...

Lately, I'm noticing that my productivity goes ballistic when the pressure is on, but that as soon as there is no perceived urgency, I perceive I tend to slack off.

I say this because my productivity yesterday was pretty good, considering I was convinced I was wa-a-y behind, but as soon as I figured out that, well, maybe things are not as hairy as I had initially thought them to be, I could barely keep myself upright in front of the computer today.

The "bag" for the day is just over 2,000 source words and the computer-based training that was due on Friday. I also managed to check, invoice, and send the stuff that's due for the first thing tomorrow morning.

Anyway, if this tendency to slack off is indeed the case, it represents a regression, methinks, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

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Part of the "what else" I did today was figure out how to get a signal from my old man's Denon turntable into my computer, so as to allow me to create a digital recording of one particular disk that I ran across a little while ago. (Actually, that part was easy, as soon as it became apparent I didn't need a phono preamp.)

One of the singular advantages of my parents hardly ever throwing things out was stumbling across stuff that I haven't seen in, literally, decades. That sheet music cabinet contained, among about a ton of sheet music, a record from my childhood, of a fellow named Milton Cross narrating The Nutcracker and The Sorceror's Apprentice.

Cross was, until he died in 1975, a landmark in New York broadcasting. He got his start in the business back in the 1920s and was the "voice" of the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts for over 40 years. At any rate, I was happy to have run across the album and decided to make a copy of the sound track (under, naturally, the copyright doctrine of fair use). For the record, it wasn't easy, as (a) it had been decades since I've used a turntable, and (b) there's an awful lot of dust in the house. I also had to play with parts of Total Recorder that I've never had to deal with before.

There is quite a collection of vinyl disks around here, including some old multi-record sets of my mother's favorite operas, such as La Bohème and Lucia de Lammermoor. I just need to find the time...

...but not now. Right now, I need to wrap up and get some sleep.

Cheers...