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One of those busy days...
Mar. 10th, 2009 11:04 pmI finished the item assigned yesterday with a song in my heart and a spring in my step. It was one of those translations that didn't really take much effort, mostly because I've translated about a gazillion other documents like it.
What made it unusual was that it had nothing to do with space, but with an offshore oil drilling platform.
I then tried to settle down and do a 3,000 word job that was space-related, and find myself with just over 600 words left right now (and a strong desire to call it a night).
What slowed the second job down was a reference document (translated by someone who confused a launch "scrub," which is where you take a rocket that's ready to launch and decide not to launch it for one reason or another, with a launch "abort," which is when you're ready to launch, attempt to launch, and something happens to prevent the launch from proceeding).
The two sound almost identical, but an abort typically involves off-nominal shutdown sequences to make the vehicle safe, after which one spends a lot of time and money bringing the vehicle back to the same starting point as after a scrub.
Finding that in the reference document slowed me down because I worried every sentence in the reference to death, lest I inadvertently parrot something incorrect from the previous translation. Then I ran out of usable material (i.e., the text in the document I'm working on had no analog in the old document, as it was new material). In any event, I ought to be able to deliver a finished product by tomorrow's start of business.
Galina was unusually curious about the pile of work on my plate. I suspect a trip in my immediate waking future (after I complete the current job), unless more work rears its ugly, yet welcome head.
Cheers...
What made it unusual was that it had nothing to do with space, but with an offshore oil drilling platform.
I then tried to settle down and do a 3,000 word job that was space-related, and find myself with just over 600 words left right now (and a strong desire to call it a night).
What slowed the second job down was a reference document (translated by someone who confused a launch "scrub," which is where you take a rocket that's ready to launch and decide not to launch it for one reason or another, with a launch "abort," which is when you're ready to launch, attempt to launch, and something happens to prevent the launch from proceeding).
The two sound almost identical, but an abort typically involves off-nominal shutdown sequences to make the vehicle safe, after which one spends a lot of time and money bringing the vehicle back to the same starting point as after a scrub.
Finding that in the reference document slowed me down because I worried every sentence in the reference to death, lest I inadvertently parrot something incorrect from the previous translation. Then I ran out of usable material (i.e., the text in the document I'm working on had no analog in the old document, as it was new material). In any event, I ought to be able to deliver a finished product by tomorrow's start of business.
Galina was unusually curious about the pile of work on my plate. I suspect a trip in my immediate waking future (after I complete the current job), unless more work rears its ugly, yet welcome head.
Cheers...
