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Aug. 18th, 2011 08:04 pmOne thing that's sure to depress me is when I search for terms on the Internet, and the only hits that come up are from copies available here and there of the document I'm translating.
A document section I felt comfortable with came to an end, and right now, I feel as if I've been driven back to square one, in terms of terminology. My bag for the day is a shade above 2,400 words—I plan to whittle it down over the next couple of hours, but don't expect spectacular progress—which puts me back behind the eight-ball, but there's not much I can do to fix that.
Galina and her sister landed at LGA about a half hour ago. I managed to get through to Galina's phone, but they were apparently in that limbo between "okay, you can get up out of your seats now" and actually getting out of the plane. (Correction: Galina and her sister are in the limo, headed out to the house.)
* * * Back a few weeks ago, the wireless mouse I've been using for the past couple of years developed a strange quirk that, in the end, turned out to be a flaky left-button microswitch. By which I mean that pressing the left mouse button would cause the switch to close, then open, then close, etc., in rapid succession.
Sometimes.
Which meant that sometimes, selecting a file name in a directory window was the same as double-clicking on it.
Which meant that dragging the mouse often didn't accomplish the intended goal (as in the case where I wanted to apply a digital signature to a PDF file).
I was almost on the verge of stopping by the MicroCenter near Westheimer and 640 to pick up a replacement keyboard and mouse when the strange mouse behavior stopped.
Then one morning, as I was dragging a file to my email app to attach it to an outgoing email, the behavior returned, causing the file to be moved somewhere else, into some other directory on my computer.
This was the last draw, and so I ordered a new keyboard and mouse, which arrived today.
It's taking me a little while to get used to the new keyboard, which differs from my old one in its physical configuration (not the keyboard layout, the "wave" configuration).
I should be back up to speed tomorrow, I expect.
I should get back to work.
Cheers...
A document section I felt comfortable with came to an end, and right now, I feel as if I've been driven back to square one, in terms of terminology. My bag for the day is a shade above 2,400 words—I plan to whittle it down over the next couple of hours, but don't expect spectacular progress—which puts me back behind the eight-ball, but there's not much I can do to fix that.
Galina and her sister landed at LGA about a half hour ago. I managed to get through to Galina's phone, but they were apparently in that limbo between "okay, you can get up out of your seats now" and actually getting out of the plane. (Correction: Galina and her sister are in the limo, headed out to the house.)
Sometimes.
Which meant that sometimes, selecting a file name in a directory window was the same as double-clicking on it.
Which meant that dragging the mouse often didn't accomplish the intended goal (as in the case where I wanted to apply a digital signature to a PDF file).
I was almost on the verge of stopping by the MicroCenter near Westheimer and 640 to pick up a replacement keyboard and mouse when the strange mouse behavior stopped.
Then one morning, as I was dragging a file to my email app to attach it to an outgoing email, the behavior returned, causing the file to be moved somewhere else, into some other directory on my computer.
This was the last draw, and so I ordered a new keyboard and mouse, which arrived today.
It's taking me a little while to get used to the new keyboard, which differs from my old one in its physical configuration (not the keyboard layout, the "wave" configuration).
I should be back up to speed tomorrow, I expect.
I should get back to work.
Cheers...
