Relatives depart...

My sister-in-law's all-too-brief visit is coming to a close, and she must fly home from New York soon. She and Galina took off in the Ford to Denver at mid-day, from where they will fly to New York. After seeing her sister off at the airport, Galina will stage the New York house for the real estate people and, well, you can guess the rest. :^)

The client I'm doing the 40K Job for asked me to help out with a very urgent project with a short (4 hour) turnaround time, which I agreed to help with in exchange for an extension on the 40K Job. I've since processed nearly 1,500 words today and am closing into the halfway mark on the job. I may linger a bit longer at the computer to see if I can whittle away a few hundred more words before calling it a night.

Still, even if I leave the status quo untouched, I shall have translated about 4,000 words for the day, which is a fine day's work in my book. Between the slack I mentioned yesterday and my client's promise to extend the deadline, I should be in pretty good shape.

Cheers...

Another karmic withdrawal...

While going through the bilingual document spit out by memoQ for the 40K Job (I had, after all, done quite a bit of work in that tool before deciding to revert to Wordfast/Word), I've noticed that, from time to time, some extra wording has been added to segments, almost as if a buffer hadn't been cleared from the last time the routine was called (I say this because the extra wording is invariably from the previous paragraph, or is the previous paragraph).

So just for laughs, I started to go through the part of the file I haven't gotten to yet and I began to delete those extra words, because it occurred to me that—at this point in the job—my goal is to finish processing the "words left" and whatever reduces that number—such as deleting duplicated text—is A Good Thing.

As a result of this editing procedure, I've eliminated almost 4,000 words from the total of those "left to do," and while it is a shame they're gone (which means I won't get paid for them), it is most certainly not a shame that they've put me almost 200 words ahead of where I otherwise planned to be by the end of the today (which includes wiping out Sunday's 1200 word shortfall).

Somebody—somewhere—must like me.

Cheers...