Procrastination pays off, kinda...

The last 80 pages or so of the huge item due in 7 days don't show up in Word's word count because they are images of documents. The good news is that there's a lot of repetitive stuff in there. Also, the client decided to send me an OCR output file (unformatted) of those pages, thus saving me the trouble, which is also pretty nice. The bad news is that a word count of the OCR file shows there to be about 18,000 of the little darlings therein. Yikes!

There had better be a lot of repetitive text in there!

The work plate is heaped high. I've spent most of the sentient part of this morning formatting stuff from the OCR file that, once formatted, ought to go pretty quickly. Then I've got a chunk of stuff coming in tonight or tomorrow morning to edit for the same job. If I'm lucky, by the end of the day tomorrow, I will have all but the last 80 pages of the document completed.

Then there are four other jobs: three of them small enough to not really be noticeable - unless I forget to do them - and one that's about 8K of source, due Wednesday.

RESOLVED, that anyone who offers me work of any significant heft between now and next, say, Wednesday, will get a hearty "no!" (I need to practice that.)

The Ukraine job is back on, starting in mid-October, but given my immediate targets, that's an eternity away.

Cheers...

How tired am I?

Take a picture of yourself RIGHT NOW! Don't change your clothes. Don't fix your hair. Just take the picture. Post that picture with no editing. Post these instructions with your picture.



I am a slave to fashion, non?

Cheers...

P.S. Copycatted from LJ friend bandicoot, FWIW.

By the grace of Providence...

Reports from the Houston area appear to be fairly positive, all things considered.

In talking with my client down there earlier today, I learned that some of the folks I know and have worked with from my client's office will, literally, have to rebuild their houses after Ike's passage. According to our tenants, though, we lucked out, suffering only minor wind damage.

That really blows my mind, after having taken a look at Ike's path, as depicted at the Wall Street Journal web site, and seen how close our real estate - the two pink diamonds in the center of the graphic below - was to the eye of the storm.


Cheers...

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