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The only easy day...
Sep. 23rd, 2010 06:31 pmToday was going to be a relatively easy day, but as they say in the SEALs, "the only easy day was yesterday."
I had planned to start the day with a revision, due about noon my time, but just as I sat down to work, a 1,000-word rush French-English job hammered my inbox like a salvo of naval gunfire. I told my client I could do the job, but it would bump the revision (it was the same client) by the amount of time it took to do the rush. I got the green light, "turned to," and managed to make the deadline by a hair.
The revision really should not have been a big deal, but the way it had been done was so... aarrgh!, that I came away from the experience with some new techniques for dealing with translation-related pathology. The main lesson learned is that the MS Word file comparison function will pull your chestnuts out of the fire, but you have to step back from time to time and figure out if maybe there's a better way to do what the function says has to be done.
As a result, I have made almost no progress in the last batch of The Big Edit™, which is disappointing but not anywhere near critical. Technically, the job is due a week from now, and if I don't mind putting in a couple of hours a night while I'm on vacation, I could wrap work up right now and start packing.
I'm going to have to, soon, anyway. <grin>
Cheers...
I had planned to start the day with a revision, due about noon my time, but just as I sat down to work, a 1,000-word rush French-English job hammered my inbox like a salvo of naval gunfire. I told my client I could do the job, but it would bump the revision (it was the same client) by the amount of time it took to do the rush. I got the green light, "turned to," and managed to make the deadline by a hair.
The revision really should not have been a big deal, but the way it had been done was so... aarrgh!, that I came away from the experience with some new techniques for dealing with translation-related pathology. The main lesson learned is that the MS Word file comparison function will pull your chestnuts out of the fire, but you have to step back from time to time and figure out if maybe there's a better way to do what the function says has to be done.
As a result, I have made almost no progress in the last batch of The Big Edit™, which is disappointing but not anywhere near critical. Technically, the job is due a week from now, and if I don't mind putting in a couple of hours a night while I'm on vacation, I could wrap work up right now and start packing.
I'm going to have to, soon, anyway. <grin>
Cheers...
