Recovering from yesterday...

Yesterday was, thank goodness, a day with perceptible forward motion on many fronts.

If all parties to conversations fulfilled their promises, my referral to in-network oncological care is done, and I plan to call today for an appointment ASAP.

I continued my "streak" of exercise on the stationary bike (in the morning), followed by taiji (in the evening).

I got some translation done, though not as much as I had hoped. This last ("not as much as I had hoped") has happened several times this week, and I'm not sure whether it's laziness on my part, all of the forces set on distracting my focus, or some clear combination of the two.

Getting up before the crack of dawn without waking Galina is hard enough; doing so with an Airbnb guest in the house is a bit harder. Still, I ought to be able to figure out a way to fill the time and put it to good use.

In fact... later.

Sea change...

I should probably start to keep track of (a) hours spent on health-related issues, and (b) hours spent keeping up with bureaucracy.

I managed to get an appointment today at a local oncology clinic that, according to reports on the Internet, is where one basically starts with cancer treatment and then, if things don't work out, one "graduates" to places like MD Anderson.

Me, I'm going in the opposite direction, at least for now.

I then spent some time setting up the machinery to turn my LLC into a company that pays an actual salary to employees (as opposed to revenue just becoming part of an ongoing draw). There are probably additional benefits to going this route, but the upshot of all of this is that I'm plumb tuckered out and have not managed to get a lick of translation work done all day.

I suspect, however, that laziness may have played a role.

* * *My ScanSnap scanner does great work when it comes to scanning documents, but having to stop after each document to change the default name given to the scan file (consisting basically of the date/time of the scan) is a pain.

Putting off renaming files is a pain, because if you open a file to take a look at the content so you can come up with a file name that makes sense, you have to wait until the file is closed again before you can rename it. (I had thought to copying the directory and then opening files in one directory and renaming the corresponding files in the other, but that approach is fraught with peril, methinks.)

It'd be nice to come up with a solution that doesn't involve much work. One idea I have is to retain the senseless names, but create a database that correlates said names to useful information (dates, times, names, keywords, etc.).

Back burner sort of stuff, for sure.

For now, I'm going to go join Galina in front of The Tube.

Hope y'all are having a good Friday night! :^)