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alexpgpI got the distinct impression that the sim got off to a slow start today. Just how slow didn't dawn on me until 7 pm rolled around, and it became clear that there were 45 minutes or so of the timeline left to simulate to the end of the exercise.
Thus, I got home around 8:25 pm, ate a quickly prepared dinner (thank goodness for udon noodles!!), and then sat down to wrestle the last of 30 files into the ground. I figured that the worst-case scenario would find me crawling off to bed at between midnight and one.
Well, if the sim running late shifted my "best laid plans" in one direction, an unexpected berserker frenzy of translation shifted them in the other. I put away about 1300 words in about 90 minutes, and have only a couple of minor nits to pick before sending the whole mess back to the client.
I've decided to triage the files into the following groups:
(a) files that, after all was said and done, required no changes (a few of these, for which I will charge, as it took some effort to determine that they required no changes);
(b) files that required some small number of changes (a flat charge, to eliminate the need to do word counts and other nonsense, especially as some words from the original text were deleted in the process of incorporating edits);
(c) the two files that required massive new translation, to be charged at my going rate, with comparative word counts (and here I may want to count deleted words).
Anyway, I've got a few things to take care of, and then I can go get a good night's sleep.
Cheers...
Thus, I got home around 8:25 pm, ate a quickly prepared dinner (thank goodness for udon noodles!!), and then sat down to wrestle the last of 30 files into the ground. I figured that the worst-case scenario would find me crawling off to bed at between midnight and one.
Well, if the sim running late shifted my "best laid plans" in one direction, an unexpected berserker frenzy of translation shifted them in the other. I put away about 1300 words in about 90 minutes, and have only a couple of minor nits to pick before sending the whole mess back to the client.
I've decided to triage the files into the following groups:
(a) files that, after all was said and done, required no changes (a few of these, for which I will charge, as it took some effort to determine that they required no changes);
(b) files that required some small number of changes (a flat charge, to eliminate the need to do word counts and other nonsense, especially as some words from the original text were deleted in the process of incorporating edits);
(c) the two files that required massive new translation, to be charged at my going rate, with comparative word counts (and here I may want to count deleted words).
Anyway, I've got a few things to take care of, and then I can go get a good night's sleep.
Cheers...
