Note to self...

Oh, Saint Jerome preserve us!

Please do take care to make sure you translate напряженность поля радиопомех as

radio-noise field intensity

and not

radio-noise fiend intensity

Your spell checker won't save you if that happens, y'know.

Just sayin'...

Getting back in the swing...

There's been no word back yet on my comments to the freelancer agreement from the prospective client, but that's no reason to let grass grow under my feet.

I really lit a fire under my office chair today and managed to translate about 4700 source words, putting me back on track to finish the current assignment on time. With any luck, tomorrow should be equally productive, which will put me ahead of the game (and wouldn't that be a gas!).

At least the last 20 tweets with "translation" in them are identical (albeit posted from different accounts and citing what I suspect are different affiliate codes). I'm hoping the bollocks-brains behind this campaign finds something else to focus on, and soon.

Shiloh is not pulling at her lead the way she did before our consultation with the trainer, and during most of our walks, said lead is just a flea-pull from being stretched tight, but there is definite improvement.

Apropos of walks, Shiloh and I were, perhaps, the subjects of commentary by what appeared to be a red-tailed hawk (?) a few trees over. I unlimbered my camera and here's what I shot:


I'm such a novice when it comes to knowing anything about birds that it's entirely conceivable my identification is wrong. (Click here to play the bird's cry.)

On the way home, I was surprised to see some small mushrooms growing on dead oak branches in the woods between our property and an adjoining road. They sure do look like members of the Suillus family to me. (Wrong! LJ friend vuzh straightened me out on this. See his comment below.)


It's been raining pretty regularly around our neck of the woods. If this keeps up, this year may turn out to have a fair mushroom season.

Cheers...