Tell 'em what you really want to say!

On second thought—maybe not.

Instead, I have decided to take the high road and act in accordance with the high standards of professionalism clients have come to expect of me. And so, instead of telling 'em what I really think, I have elected to provide merely the following terse note on the cover page of the document I'm about to send to my client:

Reviser's Note:
The Russian source document used as the revision baseline differs in significant respects from the Russian source document used to write this translation. The revisions herein, therefore, merely reflect the appearance of revisions in the updated Russian document and must not be relied upon as an accurate record of revisions made to the original translation.

So now I'm debating whether to retain the rather eye-catching color combination of fire-engine-red text and eyeball-punishing-yellow background, or not.

Hmmm.

Cheers...

All that work... for nothing!

I felt far from chipper this morning, but after a couple of cups of coffee, I set about the task of checking the third item due this morning and translating two short items that showed up in my inbox at some ungodly (for me) hour.

Then I turned to the task of cleaning up this place, made easier by my (heroic) efforts yesterday in the kitchen.

I do not know why—actually, that's not true: the place was in need of a good cleaning—but the effort pretty much exhausted me by noon. Whereupon, the real estate people called to say our potential renters had canceled the visit and would not be resceduling.

I've been trying to recover ever since.

Cheers...