alexpgp | The plate runneth over...

Hey! Here it is, the better part of the day toward dinner, and I'm stuck between coming to terms with all the stuff on my plate and actually moving some of it back in the direction of my clients.

One thing I'm now convinced of: after cleaning up OCR of documents assigned by a relatively new client, the source word count goes down 15%–20% (so impressive numbers—take that how you wish—are no longer so impressive).

* * *For some reason, I've been the object of phone calls from all sorts of people who, not putting too fine a point on it, are trying to waste my time (e.g., a call from the bank's financial planning department to discuss my "retirement account").

Ex-squeeze me ladles and jelly-spoons, but what makes anyone think the afternoon before Turkey Day is a good time to do this kind of thing?

* * *Overheard while standing in line at the supermarket:

A: "...I'm just saying, it's a shame that people whose Mayflower ancestors were given refuge by Native Americans today don't want to let in refugees from Syria."

B (after a pause): "Yeah, right. That act of kindness really worked out well for the Indians, didn't it?"

Something of a curious counter, to be sure.

* * *I've already sent one job back today, and probably could send a second (it's 80% complete), while a third is not all that large (a couple of thousand words), but between all the bit-shuffling and post-OCR editing, I'm fairly beat.

Cheers...