Lots of dust!

The renovation continues apace as the guy who's going to do the kitchen showed up to start work on the kitchen. Galina, who has never met a wall that she's particularly liked, has slated the wall between the kitchen and the dining room to be removed. A little while ago, I captured the moment as preparations were under way to remove the original wall studs:


We uncovered a "funny" (as in "Hmmm, that's funny!" in the sense of Whisky-Tango-Foxtrot) in the way the house was wired. When the light switch in the dining room (which used to be in the wall that's gone, now) was removed, the power to my office (to the right of the camera) went out.

Fortunately, there's a whole separate circuit in the den that was put in to support an air conditioner, so right now, all "essential systems" (i.e., my computer, cable modem, router, extra monitor) are sitting at the end of an orange extension cord plugged into that outlet.

Apropos of which, I am just over 2/3 of the way through the planned 26 pages for the day, and I even managed to slip in a 450-word "warmup" translation for a client. (Had it been over 500 words, I would likely have declined the job.)

Cheers...

Calling "it" a day...

...not that "it" would listen, one way or another.

It has been one difficult day.

I had been working the translation in a manner atypical of my usual approach, which is to leave the "detailing" (headers, footers, etc.) for later.

As a result, I only got 23 pages done of the 26 I had planned. Still, it's been a 6,000 word day, so I should not complain. Knowing what I now know, tomorrow I'll go back and try OCRing the next slug of work (26 pages), which ought to actually make things go faster, because I spent an inordinate amount of time typing numbers today.

Too, I got a pretty late start today, and the diversion with the "warmup" assignment didn't help. It was probably ill-advised, but there's nothing to be done about that now. It's done and gone (and invoiced).

Meanwhile, I suspect my firewall and my anti-virus are having a disagreement. I think I'll uninstall and reinstall them.

Cheers...