A brief hiccup...

[alexpgp]

For some reason, the next document on my plate arrived in four pieces (i.e., in four separate e-mails). As the attachments were sequentially numbered, I opened a window running the command-line interpreter and pasted the files together, and found the result to be a text file containng base64-encoded information.

It took me a little while, but I managed to get mutt (on my Linux box) to open this file as an e-mail, but saw two files on the attachment list instead of one, which worried me, as the file names looked identical.

Silly me.

Apparently it was too early in the morning for me to have noticed that one file was the Russian original, and the other was a machine translation into English. And the file names were only nearly identical. And the client had told me to expect two files in the course of our phone conversation. :^)

Having glanced at the machine translation, I am now going to forget I have it, as I don't want any negative influences acting on me as I translate the original.

Of course, before I can start on that document, I'll have to finish the one I'm working on now.

* * *Turkey's in the oven. Natalie has a reservation to fly to Albuquerque for Christmas.

This was the scene outside our bedroom window yesterday as Galina and I prepared for our night out:



There were too many elk to count. I lost track after 20.

Cheers...

Comments

[joy-joy.livejournal.com]

What a lovely scene! Snow! Wildlife! The wild life around here takes place at the coffieshop on the corner and the snow is a bit more expensive. I still find your translation world fascinating- can't comment much because I often have the baby in my arms as I read.But it seems like you are constantly under time pressure. Anyway, I can see why you have chosen to live where you do, it's gorgeous. I'd be glad to leave hectic old Amsterdam behind right now.