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On-call Friday...
May. 7th, 2010 06:30 pmI am the on-call interpreter today, and as our staffing is up to full strength, that basically means I can stay in the hotel area, near phones and the radio. So far, I've fielded a mid-morning call about a fairly lengthy technical translation, which I received via fax and was able to finish by lunch time.
I was able to get a load of laundry done, too, without having to compete with other campaigners for the limited number of machines. The dryers are state-of-the-art, employing a technology that extracts moisture from the hot air so that the air can be reused for drying clothes, thus sharply reducing the amount of electrical energy used by the appliance.
Serendipity uncovered Robert B. Parker's novel Appaloosa among the books in the small library of campaigner-donated volumes in the common room downstairs. I'm afraid I read about half of it before drifting off to sleep, and then the other half before going down to breakfast this morning.
With so many people using the public computers in the hotel's lobby, I suppose I should not be surprised to find nasty surprises on USB drives that have been connected to those computers. Unfortunately, the Panda AntiVirus that I have installed on the Acer doesn't seem too nimble in detecting such items (which I found out about after inserting an infected USB drive in a work computer that has Norton installed), so I'm downloading (via dialup) the avast! antivirus package to improve my cyberdefenses.
Sunday is looking to be another day off, as there won't be anyone around to interpret or translate for, owing to the Russian Victory Day celebration.
It's time for dinner. Then, maybe, I'll sweat some in the sauna.
Cheers...
I was able to get a load of laundry done, too, without having to compete with other campaigners for the limited number of machines. The dryers are state-of-the-art, employing a technology that extracts moisture from the hot air so that the air can be reused for drying clothes, thus sharply reducing the amount of electrical energy used by the appliance.
Serendipity uncovered Robert B. Parker's novel Appaloosa among the books in the small library of campaigner-donated volumes in the common room downstairs. I'm afraid I read about half of it before drifting off to sleep, and then the other half before going down to breakfast this morning.
With so many people using the public computers in the hotel's lobby, I suppose I should not be surprised to find nasty surprises on USB drives that have been connected to those computers. Unfortunately, the Panda AntiVirus that I have installed on the Acer doesn't seem too nimble in detecting such items (which I found out about after inserting an infected USB drive in a work computer that has Norton installed), so I'm downloading (via dialup) the avast! antivirus package to improve my cyberdefenses.
Sunday is looking to be another day off, as there won't be anyone around to interpret or translate for, owing to the Russian Victory Day celebration.
It's time for dinner. Then, maybe, I'll sweat some in the sauna.
Cheers...
