One very long day...

This time of year is generally pretty thin when it comes to Russian-to-English translations because so many folks on the Russian side of various projects are still in the throes of the holiday season. (Following the Russian Orthodox calendar, for example, Christmas is celebrated after New Year's.)

So I allowed my eyes to be a bit larger than my stomach, and accepted a job that will press my limits, but in order to meet all other outstanding commitments, I'm going to have to put off "free time" to sometime next Tuesday.

That said, I shall have to make a note to more fully explore a train of thought from earlier in the evening, to wit, something I wrote about my progress in tai chi:

I try to learn new things all the time, and try to not let the prospect of not being able to learn everything I want to learn in the time I have left on this earth bother me. (In a way, it's easy to ignore this with regard to, say, learning a foreign language, because it's not as immediate and in-your-face as being in tai chi class and unable to command my body to do things I could do when I was a younger man.)

Cheers...