Some quiet time...

Galina's sleeping in for a bit, which leaves me some time to arrive at some conclusions regarding things that've been going on.

Like the realization—during our drive to New York—that dry ice, for some reason, seems not as efficient as water ice for cooling down the contents of a picnic cooler (although with dry ice, there's no risk of getting everything wet!).

Like the realization, upon seeing copies of books we have in the basement among the books offered for sale at the Glen Cove Boys & Girls Club fundraiser, that such books are neither rare, nor in demand.

Like the realization that I have to hunker down and get back to the point where there's too much work coming in. January and February were pretty dismal, work-wise, and although March was decent, it still turns out the relationship between my eggs and my baskets is far from optimum. I also need to realize that "wordsmithing" is not restricted to only translation.

Additional philosophy will have to wait. I've just motivated myself.

Cheers...

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A dog's breakfast...

A PowerPoint file arrived for editing that apparently had been worked on by someone for some period of time, but not with any sort of care or thoroughness. There were slides with untranslated bullet points, tables with untranslated cells, and whole untranslated slides scattered here and there among 50+ slides. The result was not pretty to look at and it took me pretty much all day to complete my first pass through the file.

I did take a short break to help Galina take 6 boxes of books to the library. While there, we made use of the library's computer system to print some items, including (for me) a list of 681 French verbs, color coded by (a) most commonly used verbs, (b) modal verbs, and (c) verbs conjugated with être.

As probably can be deduced from this series of posts, AT&T works a lot better from the New York house than Verizon.

Cheers...

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