Very strange bold behavior...

The OCR spit out for the document I'm working on right now is behaving very strangely in terms of font formatting.

For reasons best known to my computer's CPUs, in certain places, the OCR detected bold face font where there is clearly no bolding used in the original document. Editing the OCR output would normally not be a problem in Microsoft Word, because it's a simple enough matter to do a Select-All, then hit Ctrl-B a couple of times, where the first keychord takes a mixed string, such as

The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain.

and makes it all bold, like this:

The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain.

The second Ctrl-B just turns off the bold-face, and with that, the desired goal is reached, i.e.,

The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain

.

However, what I'm running into is some kind of additional weirdness. Starting with that same selection of mixed bold and non-bold characters:

The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain.

pressing Ctrl-B the first time results in the following:

The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain.

In effect, it would appear that the bold property is being toggled for each individual character. Pressing Ctrl-B again gets me the original bold/not-bold selection (in effect, again toggling bold at a character, and not selection level). Apparently, the only way to make the whole selection not bold is to highlight each individual string of bold characters and do whatever it takes (e.g., press Ctrl-B) to unbold it.

This is very strange. Anyone else ever experience behavior like this? (More to the point, has anyone figured out a way around it?)

Cheers...

Short moments...

The other day, Galina saw a bear passing within about a hundred yards of the house, mind set on some other destination. No complaints about that from our side, believe me.

Yesterday, I was standing the the garage, on the ground floor, when Shiloh came trotting downstairs and then past me onto the driveway carrying a chew toy. I did a double-take, as I did not recall our owning a chew toy of that particular configuration, and challenged Shiloh to stop and release what she was holding in her mouth. The "chew toy" turned out to be about an 8-inch section of the bottom end of a deer leg (!). The things she finds to play with...

I awoke around 3:30 am this morning, for no apparent reason. I tossed and turned for a while, and then got up, as it was apparent that Galina was not asleep, either. By 8 am, I was on the road, mostly to go visit one of the hams, who was having a yard sale, but along the way, I found a number of other sales as well, which I stopped at on the way back. My haul for the day included a Sony video camera that was a couple of generations out of date—not a problem, because I have tapes that old—in a case that I can probably sell for what I paid for the whole kaboodle.

On the way home, I made sure to stop at the "farmer's market" near the lumber/hardware store, and it was there that I learned of a service called squareup.com that will send you a device that plugs into an iPhone or iPad and turns it into a credit card reader. The rate charged makes a mockery of the highway robbery that goes on (or at least did) when you work through a "traditional" outfit that offers merchant services, both on a monthly basis (there does not seem to be a monthly charge with squareup.com) and on a per-transaction basis (squareup.com appears to charge 2.7%, which is about half the vigorish charged by traditional offerors and also less than PayPal's slice of the pie).

I also bought some kale and prepared it into a raw kale/tomato/avocado/onion salad that disappeared rather quickly. The recipe is pretty simple:

1 bunch of raw kale
2 tbs olive oil
1 tsp salt
1 large avocado
1 large tomato, chopped
a couple of handfuls of chopped onion (white or green)

Wash and de-vein the kale, then cut it into small pieces. Pour the oil over the kale and "knead" to get the oil all over the leaves and help the kale wilt a bit. Sprinkle in the salt. Then spoon the avocado on top of the mixture and continue to "knead," squeezing the avocado and mixing it into the oiled and salted kale.

Once you have achieved a satisfactory consistency, add in the chopped tomato and onion and mix with a wooden spoon.

I tried the result both immediately after making it and after letting it chill for a couple of hours. I liked it either way.

No rest this weekend. Today, I finished the last 1,300 source words of the document I started yesterday, and sent off another several hundred words for two other jobs. My early start caused me to nap pretty heavily early in the afternoon, so I only finished translating a couple of hours ago.

Tomorrow, I must tackle a new job that looks a bit intimidating because I'm going to have to key quite a lot of items (the source document has labeled illustrations all over the place, align with graphics that are rife with labels). In the end, it's a 23-page job, but I need to get as much of it done as I can so as to be able to handle The Routine Stuff™ and continue my cleanup effort during the week.

Cheers...