A slow campaign day...

I had the afternoon duty today, which meant I didn't have to spend any time in the morning at the office on the second floor of the 92A-50 integration facility (which is quite a mouthful, so most of the Americans have adopted the Russian name for the building, which is 'poltinnik', a reference to a coin worth 50 kopecks).

I was replaced as the interpreter for today's visit to the Gagarin Museum because the group visiting the museum included the customer's representatives, among others. This turned out to be a lucky move, as the group returned about three hours late (at about 4 pm), completely missing lunch. I am currently on the hook this coming Wednesday to escort a second, English-speaking group to the Museum.

I'm having a wonderful time (not!, oh, most definitiely not!) with iTunes, which long ago has ceased to surprise me. How difficult can it be to allow users to maintain their music libraries on removable media that might be assigned drive letter D on one day, and drive letter H on another?

Apropos of media, I happened to catch a familiar title among the DVDs in the common room: Appaloosa. This turned out to be a movie based on the book I ran across a couple of days ago, and since the book was fresh in my mind, it was interesting for me to guess why the screenwriters (one of them being Ed Harris, who also directed and starred in the movie) made the decisions they did in adapting the story for the big screen.

It was also interesting to wonder specifically why some lines from the book made it into the movie and why others didn't. While these are questions may be answered in the "director's commentary," past experience with such commentary on other DVDs keeps my finger off the 'Play' button.

Is it dinnertime already? Yikes!

Cheers...