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Home stretch of the home stretch...
Dec. 29th, 2010 06:09 pmOkay! The plate is finally all but scraped clean.
I sent off about 2,000 words of translation this morning and then "turned to" on a 9,000-word editing job from someone whose work I respect, but somewhere along the lines, I became convinced that perhaps this individual was having an off day while working on this document. Or perhaps a decision was made to sub out some of the work to someone whose grasp of English is fairly good, but which repeatedly falls into the wrong register, not to mention an inability to keep terms consistent from paragraph to paragraph.
Still, not bad for a Wednesday!
* * * The weather dweebs promised snow starting early this morning, and they were right, this time. I headed down to the car at the bottom of the driveway to attempt to get it next to the house before the snow really started coming down and managed—again—to get stuck.
Getting stuck is not so much a question of not knowing how to steer, but having the car literally slip down the driveway—wheel position be damned—until it comes to rest somewhere, typically in a snowbank, at which point I may as well wait for spring, as the driving wheels have nothing to grip as they spin.
I called my neighbor to help me get the car up the driveway, which was accomplished pretty quickly once he got here.
The 2,000 words was due out the door by 10 am my time, so I couldn't go do some necessary shopping in the morning, which would've been the right time to go. As it turns out, we're pretty much out of perishables, and while I suppose we could survive for some time on the rice, beans, flour, and canned food in the pantry, it'd be without fresh veggies, or milk, or eggs, or salad.
So, somewhere around 2 pm I brushed away the roughly half a foot of snow off the Ford and went shopping. Upon my return, I dreaded going up the driveway, but it was that or park at the bottom and haul stuff up by hand, so I gave it a try. Amazingly, in second gear, the Ford went up the driveway as if there was no snow there at all.
I will take my miracles as I find them.
* * * On and off, I'd been noticing that every MP3 player I had installed on my DROID X shared a common problem: after some time, the sound would stop before the end of a track was reached. My "test track" for this phenomenon was Arlo Guthrie's original rendering of "Alice's Restaurant Massacree," which weighs in at over 18 minutes in length.
At first, I thought it was a problem with the player that came with the DROID X, but when a second player exhibited the same symptoms, I began to think it was some arcane setting in the phone's configuration that I could not find. But after the most recent update of the operating system, it became clear that whenever the playback stopped, the player actually kept progressing through the file. What wasn't happening was having sound come out of the phone's speaker or earplug jack.
The other day, I found out what was going on. Apparently, the app-killing program (the first app I installed on the DROID X, as it turns out) goes through every so often and mucks with apps that haven't experienced human interaction since the previous cycle in an attempt to reduce drain on the battery. By telling the app-killer to ignore, say, the beta version of WinAmp that I installed recently, I finally heard the Guthrie song play all the way through, and therefore, I believe the problem's been solved.
I will sleep on the edited file, which is due tomorrow morning. In the meantime, I think I'll go upstairs and cook a little dinner. Then maybe I'll listen to some music.
Cheers...
I sent off about 2,000 words of translation this morning and then "turned to" on a 9,000-word editing job from someone whose work I respect, but somewhere along the lines, I became convinced that perhaps this individual was having an off day while working on this document. Or perhaps a decision was made to sub out some of the work to someone whose grasp of English is fairly good, but which repeatedly falls into the wrong register, not to mention an inability to keep terms consistent from paragraph to paragraph.
Still, not bad for a Wednesday!
Getting stuck is not so much a question of not knowing how to steer, but having the car literally slip down the driveway—wheel position be damned—until it comes to rest somewhere, typically in a snowbank, at which point I may as well wait for spring, as the driving wheels have nothing to grip as they spin.
I called my neighbor to help me get the car up the driveway, which was accomplished pretty quickly once he got here.
The 2,000 words was due out the door by 10 am my time, so I couldn't go do some necessary shopping in the morning, which would've been the right time to go. As it turns out, we're pretty much out of perishables, and while I suppose we could survive for some time on the rice, beans, flour, and canned food in the pantry, it'd be without fresh veggies, or milk, or eggs, or salad.
So, somewhere around 2 pm I brushed away the roughly half a foot of snow off the Ford and went shopping. Upon my return, I dreaded going up the driveway, but it was that or park at the bottom and haul stuff up by hand, so I gave it a try. Amazingly, in second gear, the Ford went up the driveway as if there was no snow there at all.
I will take my miracles as I find them.
At first, I thought it was a problem with the player that came with the DROID X, but when a second player exhibited the same symptoms, I began to think it was some arcane setting in the phone's configuration that I could not find. But after the most recent update of the operating system, it became clear that whenever the playback stopped, the player actually kept progressing through the file. What wasn't happening was having sound come out of the phone's speaker or earplug jack.
The other day, I found out what was going on. Apparently, the app-killing program (the first app I installed on the DROID X, as it turns out) goes through every so often and mucks with apps that haven't experienced human interaction since the previous cycle in an attempt to reduce drain on the battery. By telling the app-killer to ignore, say, the beta version of WinAmp that I installed recently, I finally heard the Guthrie song play all the way through, and therefore, I believe the problem's been solved.
I will sleep on the edited file, which is due tomorrow morning. In the meantime, I think I'll go upstairs and cook a little dinner. Then maybe I'll listen to some music.
Cheers...
