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Coming up for air...
Apr. 11th, 2008 11:35 pmI had such a good time yesterday that I forgot to mention it was really a glorious day. The fact that I was coming off a real grind, that the resulting invoice put me 55% of the way toward my "nut" with only 33% of the month gone, that I had no pressing assignments, and that the weather was - well and truly - fabulous helped make it that way. Heck, Galina and I even went out for Japanese food during lunch.
Despite there being three jobs in the hopper, I managed to hold off sitting down to work on any of them until the evening, when I knocked one page out of the ballpark. It provided the much-vaunted "glitch" for the day, as the half page that wasn't notarial boilerplate was illiterate gibberish. I got through that part by making a game of it, to see just how much additional information (in the form of, say, verbs) I could guess at and add to have the text make sense without crossing over the line into Rewrite City.
The main item on the plate this morning was a 4100-source-word item that ought to be straightforward, but since it isn't explicitly technical, I'm finding some turns of the phrase that have required some extensive research into basic terminology, as well as some that have caused me to expand my understanding of how native speakers express themselves in colloquial terms.
I actually made the halfway mark before hitting a wall that I'm just to tired to scale right now (Так что юбилеи - юбилеями, а служба - службой.). It'll just have to wait until tomorrow.
That item is due tomorrow night, and I plan to bag the other two items - both short - on Sunday for Monday morning.
I finally threw in the towel with Agnitum Outpost messing with my web access, and turned that part of it off, limiting the application's functionality to plain-vanilla firewall duty. Browsing is now faster, but not uniformly. Something else, I suspect, is still gumming up the works.
AVG anti-virus has a nasty habit of not playing nicely when the time comes to perform a scan, glomming upwards of 60-80% of CPU cycles to do so. (Is it really necessary to scan every day?) When AVG kicks in, you can almost see the lights dim in the room.
My old man's old drafting table has been sitting in the corner nearest the door, its surface horizontal and cranked down as far as it will go. The table itself and the area immediately around it has been a chronic magnet for crap pretty much ever since I set it up.
Today, I took the opportunity to clear a path to the table, dismantle it, and remove it from the office. In its place, I serendipitously (and strategically) positioned my two file cabinets and then placed the swinging door that had, until recently, helped separate the kitchen from the dining room on top to form a tabletop.
It just so happens that the height of the result is exactly the height of my own work table, and it makes an ideal work place for Galina. (Why hadn't I thought of this sooner? Probably because I hadn't seen the door in the junk heap next to the garage!)
I will likely set up the computer that was on the drafting table in the spare bedroom. Because of the chronic mess, I rarely used the computer, but among other things it is the only one in the house with working, old versions of iTunes and QuickBooks on it. (Wow. What a mashup!)
Time to hit the sack.
Cheers...
Despite there being three jobs in the hopper, I managed to hold off sitting down to work on any of them until the evening, when I knocked one page out of the ballpark. It provided the much-vaunted "glitch" for the day, as the half page that wasn't notarial boilerplate was illiterate gibberish. I got through that part by making a game of it, to see just how much additional information (in the form of, say, verbs) I could guess at and add to have the text make sense without crossing over the line into Rewrite City.
The main item on the plate this morning was a 4100-source-word item that ought to be straightforward, but since it isn't explicitly technical, I'm finding some turns of the phrase that have required some extensive research into basic terminology, as well as some that have caused me to expand my understanding of how native speakers express themselves in colloquial terms.
I actually made the halfway mark before hitting a wall that I'm just to tired to scale right now (Так что юбилеи - юбилеями, а служба - службой.). It'll just have to wait until tomorrow.
That item is due tomorrow night, and I plan to bag the other two items - both short - on Sunday for Monday morning.
I finally threw in the towel with Agnitum Outpost messing with my web access, and turned that part of it off, limiting the application's functionality to plain-vanilla firewall duty. Browsing is now faster, but not uniformly. Something else, I suspect, is still gumming up the works.
AVG anti-virus has a nasty habit of not playing nicely when the time comes to perform a scan, glomming upwards of 60-80% of CPU cycles to do so. (Is it really necessary to scan every day?) When AVG kicks in, you can almost see the lights dim in the room.
My old man's old drafting table has been sitting in the corner nearest the door, its surface horizontal and cranked down as far as it will go. The table itself and the area immediately around it has been a chronic magnet for crap pretty much ever since I set it up.
Today, I took the opportunity to clear a path to the table, dismantle it, and remove it from the office. In its place, I serendipitously (and strategically) positioned my two file cabinets and then placed the swinging door that had, until recently, helped separate the kitchen from the dining room on top to form a tabletop.
It just so happens that the height of the result is exactly the height of my own work table, and it makes an ideal work place for Galina. (Why hadn't I thought of this sooner? Probably because I hadn't seen the door in the junk heap next to the garage!)
I will likely set up the computer that was on the drafting table in the spare bedroom. Because of the chronic mess, I rarely used the computer, but among other things it is the only one in the house with working, old versions of iTunes and QuickBooks on it. (Wow. What a mashup!)
Time to hit the sack.
Cheers...
