Procrastination pays off, kinda...
Sep. 18th, 2008 03:42 pmThe 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...
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...