A sudden realignment...

It's a jarring feeling to find out, late on Wednesday afternoon, that it's actually Friday.

This means my plans for work over the next few days have just had two whole days yanked out from under them. (And things were going so well, too!)

Time to regroup and attack in another direction!

Not doing too badly...

I didn't spent much time assessing the fallout from my thinking today was Wednesday, I just got down to work and "blitzed" about 1500 words of an assignment that I could probably do more of, except that:

1. I've already spent 3+ hours on an assignment whose parameters kept changing before being rescheduled for the middle of next week,

2. I translated and sent off 2,500 words of an item that arrived this morning (in addition to a short piece that I did for the same client at daybreak)

3. I translated and sent off 1,000 words of something else.

That comes up to 5,000 words for the day (a decent haul) plus some hours. No wonder I feel a bit tired!

The plate is still heaped high. But then there's Sunday's solar eclipse to consider...

You see, the track of the "ring of fire" (annular) eclipse—where the moon comes between the Earth and Sun, but in such a way that a ring of the sun remains uncovered (because the moon's orbit positions it too far from the Earth to create a total eclipse)—is going to pass oh-so-close to where we are. (Farmington, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque will all be within the area of 100% eclipse, although the sun will be close to the horizon, so terrain must be flat if we're to see it.)

You don't miss stuff like that if you can help it.

Cheers...