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| Thursday, May 15th, 2008 |
alexpgp
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8:01a |
Turning point...
Yesterday was one of those days that turned what was beginning to look like a mediocre month into something a lot more reasonable, mostly because a lot of stuff I had been working on was finally getting to the point of completion, which meant - paraphrasing The Incredible Hulk:
It's invoicing time!
Currently, there is one item on my plate, just under 2000 source words, due by the time I go to sleep tonight.
Yesterday, this place resembled Grand Central Station. We had carpenters, electricians, and floor refinishers in the house. Shiloh didn't know who to get excited about first.
Galina tells me that my office is next in line to be refinished, and that I need to jump on getting stuff out of here. Two things need to be accomplished as I do that: keep track of what gets put in what box, and segregate the stuff I need/want to take with me to Colorado.
I should probably turn to.
Cheers... |
| Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 |
jennaxrose
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7:35p |
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cordial_kitten
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10:54p |
the stress has returned for tonight. working on the frames today took way longer than expected. and i still have two more to go , that i haven't even bought yet. hopefully i can maybe fit that in tomorrow??
i started packing some stuff tonight. i think i'm just going to shove as much stuff in my car tomorrow as i possibly can and spend the morning unloading it, while i wait for the guy to come hook up our water. when brandon gets there, i could take a break to go buy the frames, and retake my passport photo because i have to get a new one. not that we're planning on leaving the country any time soon. but since my name changed within one year of getting it, i can get a new one pretty much for free; if i do it after july i'll have to repay all the fees, which would be dumb.
i passionately hate moving, and i'm annoyed we have to do it. i've had to move way too many times in my life, and i'm sick of it. hopefully the thought of moving will keep us in that house for the duration of our 15 year mortgage.
i really want to get some info together so i can promote my idea for doing portraits for families and children by the june show. not much time to do that.
i have a real salon haircut on friday, which is great. my fear came true and they told me i needed a haircut at Snips yesterday. actually i was praying they'd say something. it will only cost me the tip.
saturday is my first full day of work, and my trainer will not even be there. very scary. it will be ok, but i'm still scared, of course.
i have exactly two months until the Oliver book is due, and i think that is the date that it needs to actually be in their possession. i think i'm probably going to end up overnighting it, which will be pretty expensive.
i got a heads up that a new Little Lutheran assignment will be in my inbox in the next couple of days. very very good to get the work; somehow i will squeeze it in.
um ... that's it. it somehow doesn't seem as bad with it all written out. i guess i'm just scared i'll forget something.
still left to do at the house before we move in:
varnish the floors one last time;
paint the bedrooms and the living room;
fix the gutters so the basement won't flood;
gather all our garage sale stuff;
wonder why i gave all that stuff to goodwill when i should have saved it for our sale.
the the rest of my summer will be spent scraping wallpaper and cursing when it slips under the plastic cover and sticks to our wonderful floor we slaved so hard over.
now i must relax with a glass of wine and a notebook trying to figure out my commission venture, and an early bed time! |
brideofninja
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9:59p |
Editing an article per reviewers comments is a humbling experience "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." -Don Herold Current Mood:  blah |
jennaxrose
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6:36p |
"Gladiator ready?" "Yep." I can't believe I didn't have an American Gladiators tag before this. I know I've written about the show before. Maybe I just never tagged it. ( American Gladiators ) |
roseblessing
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5:16p |
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randomposting
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5:15p |
Calling all Weiner songs. The Oscar Meyer Weiner song was once so popular that people would request for it to be played on the radio. What's the last song you heard on the radio? Turn, Turn, Turn - The Byrds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McOGxK5JcEU&How to Use a Telephone. From 1927. :) Current Mood:  lazy |
edhorch
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5:22p |
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alexpgp
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4:21p |
Lucky walk...
Upon finishing today's slug of work, I took Shiloh for a walk around the neighborhood. Along the way, I hoped to run across the "sculpture" of a chicken, made of old garden implements welded together, that I once saw at the entrance to a place that sells fresh eggs (for $4 a dozen) not far from here on Peacock Lane.
The same place is home to at least two peacocks, and as I started to record a video, more for the sounds of the other birds in the air than for anything else (nothing was moving), the peacocks chimed in.
Check it out:
Cheers... |
ali_konu
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3:28p |
I rock
*Mid week cleaning done -CHECK
*Mid week laundry done - check
*Children nurtured loved and cared for - ChEck
I even have supper ready to go when it's time.... I say today is a keeper. |
ali_konu
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12:11p |
More Kate Nash
This is the original one i heard... It's funny... also more than likely nsfw.
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ali_konu
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11:53a |
nothing new
Contractions have slowed back down, I suppose this is my body's way of taking mercy on me and only making me deal with this cold and not the cold and contractions. I don't know why this pregnancy is so much easier to deal with when I'm not contracting every few minutes.
So anyway, i'm more fun to be around right now.
It's raining today, it's so gloomy outside. I just looked at the weather and it looks like rain the rest of this week and weekend. Fun.
Gas here is 4.07 a gallon. It hit yesterday. Which is funny (in that not really sort of way) since crude has been down the past few days. I find it interesting that when crude goes up we pay higher prices, and when crude goes down we still pay higher prices or the same. Never lower. I also find it amusing that BP released there quarterly numbers and showed a profit of something like 6 billion dollars PROFIT. OH wait, I was wrong it was 7.451 billion dollars NET profit. Oh and Mitch, I make republicans ashamed to be a republican, Daniels passed a gas tax so our gas is 10 cents a gallon higher then it once was. Apparently we weren't taking a big enough hit on gas prices, we need to have extra tax slapped onto ours.
What I find really hard is that everyone is raising prices to offset the cost of rising gas prices but people arent being paid more. So while everything from cloth diapers to postage to milk is going up we're all still making the same amount. Something has to give eventually.
In other happier news Mike heard this song on the radio and I don't know why but her music is catchy... so here is a sample for all of you....probably nsfw.
Thats all for now. |
alexpgp
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11:42a |
Neologism?! Just now, in responding to a comment left by LJ friend ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rjlippincott, I started to muse about how my situation could be... less optimal, i.e., I could be doing this mess in PowerPoint, and it occurred to me that - as my very favorite program to transate in - it should really be called PowerPoink, for obvious onomatopoeic reasons. Google says its eternally vigilant band of spiders have previously found "PowerPoink" a total of 8 times, so I'm not entirely original with this neologism, but who knows? Who cares? I think it's apt, if not actually trespassing over on the side of cute. Can you tell my heart really isn't in this 7800-word... text? The good news is, though, that there's quite a bit of repetition in it, so that getting it done by the end of the day is eminently feasible (I am, in fact, more than halfway through, and blessing Wordfast as it does the grunt work.) Cheers... |
alexpgp
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9:05a |
Doing the math...
Hmmm. This document contains 7800+ words on 8 pages.
Can't you tell, the font size is minuscule?
There oughta be a society for the prevention of cruelty to translators, y'know?
Cheers... |
alexpgp
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7:05a |
Regular expressions are my friends, continued... Good morning all. I'm just coming off a night of very poor quality sleep, but I'll be okay. Unfortunately, I'm not quite all there yet, so I didn't really need to run headlong into that quaint Russian habit of creating a pseudo abbreviation out of a word by replacing the body of the word with a dash, retaining typically two letters up front and one or two at the back. Example: Установка отпарки отходов пр-ва серной кислотоы After staring at the above for a full minute and trying to guess what "пр-ва" might stand for, I came up with a Find string in Word that does the trick fairly well: <пр[а-я]@в Interpretation: Starting at a word boundary, find the string "пр", followed by one or more lowercase Cyrillic letter(s), followed by a "в" (I don't care about the last "а", since that's an ending). Right off the bat, this finds me "производство" (though granted, not with the "greedy" kind of matchup that would be so satisfying), which causes me to have a "I-coulda-had-a-V-8!" moment, as in retrospect, that's all it could be. I. Need. Coffee. Cheers... |
| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 |
spinthemoon
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9:44p |
Biting...I mean...Writing the bullet * My wetbag from goodmama came yesterday. (I would post the one I ordered, except I think I got the last one. Bwahahaha! ) OMG! The fabric! I just want to sit and pet it. I got it for vacation, to put our wet stuff in (duh) but now I'm thinking everyone just needs to get their own and leave mine alone. * Idol just wasn't the same tonight without Jason Castro. So I spent the last half hour on youtube listening to his non-idol stuff. This one is one of my faves. So is this. * I got all organized and motivated yesterday and started preparing for our trip - I cleaned out the fridge and cleaned off the green thing (not the one I replaced with the clock; the other green thing. Yes, we had two green things. What of it?) and gathered up all The Boy's stuff and packed it and got out my bag and did some laundry. I was stoked because I thought, Cool - if I do a little bit every night, by the end of the week everything will be done. And then of course tonight I did nothing. Noth. Ing. * I just heard a funny clanking noise outside the window, and dh informed me that they have closed off the ramp next to our driveway and are unloading some jackhammers. Dang. It's too late to take a tylenol PM, which makes me sleep through anything. So maybe I will be up all night cleaning and packing anyway. * I didn't mention Mother's Day. I should have mentioned Mother's Day. It was a nice day. The kids spent the night with my mom Saturday while Husband and I were at the concert (which was awesome) so I went over early Sunday morning and re-did her porch planter (my traditional Mother's Day gift to her) and worked in her front flower bed a bit. We had lunch at my sister's, and afterwards hung out in the schoolyard tossing a baseball with Husband while the children ran around. And I got awesome gifts and cards and stuff, but missed a call from Oldest Daughter, which was a bummer. But overall it was a very nice day. * I am feeling unusually parenthetical today (does it show?) |
alexpgp
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11:01p |
Okay!
Veering into a small run of previously encountered sentences made the work go a little faster, but the main part of the project is all over (but for the depeckling).
I sent my defective Sansa e260 in for warranty service on May 5, and just got the replacement unit via UPS today, putting the lie to SanDisk's claim - in an email of May 9, that it would take 5-7 days to rustle up a replacement and send it to me. >grin< The package appears to be a standard retail package and includes earphones, case, strap and - second in importance only to the unit itself! - an interface cable. The unit itself looks brand spanking new, which is certainly nice. I've just plugged it in, to allow it to gather some charge.
More later, maybe, as it turns out the unit is already charged!
UPDATE: The good news is that apparently, they sent me a newer V2 model of the e260. This means I can download stuff from Audible.com directly onto the unit without having to make an MP3 copy first to accommodate my iPod (which only works "natively" with Audible via iTunes, which I won't run).
The bad news is that the firmware version was out of date and the updating software wants to run every time I start my machine (fat chance). However, the software has done its job, so I'm happy.
Cheers... |
wickenden
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8:35p |
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alexpgp
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9:18p |
Found recipe... None of the recipes that keep cropping up on odd pieces of paper represent any kind of haut cuisine, but it beats the heck out of not knowing how to cook at all. I just ran across something I can't wait to try, once I have a kitchen in which to work. Lamb Stew
1-1/2 lb.lean lamb (part of a leg) for stewing
2 or 3 potatoes
3 carrots
2 onions
2 small parts garlic, cut up (optional)
some dill (optional)
string beans or green pepper (optional)
Wash all ingredients and put all in together into cold water. Cook about an hour and a quarter. Apropos of dinner, we had stuff mostly out of plastic bags from Costco. Yech. I'm about halfway through what needs to be done before I call it a night. I have not been particularly aggressive about it, but now that it's 9:15 pm, I better start hunkering down. Cheers... |
singersdd
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8:45p |
It's a benefit of not having cable. . .
I checked out The Civil War on DVD from the library last night.
Guy just put disc 3 in the DVD player.
History at its finest and most alive. And there's nothing good on regular t.v. anyway.
But it's keeping me from cleaning up the stuff that needs to be cleaned up in the bedrooms. . . oh well. |
cordial_kitten
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8:22p |
we waited too long to get our utilities switched over, so our water got turned off. that's dumb. i'm not sure if we'll have to pay more to have it turned back on. we'll see on thursday! luckily, we still have power, and hopefully they won't turn it off by tomorrow morning. our realtor thought we might get away with not switching them over for a couple of weeks, he does that a lot, i guess, he flips houses. well, the water only made it a week and a half before someone noticed and shut it down. ugh.
i went over to the house to check on it after work, and there was this crazy guy walking down the street. it made me nervous. he kept saying "my mom thinks i should kill myself ... she thinks that would be a good idea." over and over and over.
work went well today. my short days are over, i think. saturday i work a full 8 hour day, which will be SO HARD after not doing it for so long.
i have this idea for commission work, and i need to make it all come together before my show in june. i want to make postcards for it, and everything. i'm targeting the nursery families, and they will be swarming all over on june 5th and 7th. at first i was thinking about doing personalized books for children or whoever, but now i'm thinking i could just do portraits. i think this would be awesome ... |
revmary
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8:26p |
Tired Watching American Idol right now. Whatever, I just can't get excited about these contestants. Meh. I was busy today. Got alot done. I went to the greenhouse to get some plants today...Came back to garden...Wanted to get them planted before the rain tomorrow. The Vegetable Garden I planted Green Beans, tomato Plants, Green Peppers, Squash and Cucumbers.... I planted Petunia, Impatients, and other pretty flowers in the flower bed...place miracle grow on them too...LOL Then I cleaned up, ate dinner and went for a long walk...visiting people along the way...Nice Sunshiny day... Current Mood:  tired |
westhill_mom
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4:59p |
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rillifane
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4:10p |
I'm watching CNN and listening to their polling numbers. Bill Schneider gets to this question "How much has the recession affected you?"
Well, now that an interesting question given that there is not, as yet, a recession.
The MSM is engaged in a deliberate campaign to "talk down the economy" and this question is proof positive of at least CNN's complicity.
QED
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alexpgp
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5:08p |
So here we are...
It's shortly after 5 pm and I freshly rested... again. Last night, I logged very nearly 10 hours of sleep (or maybe a little less if you consider the usual 6 am wakeup to go take Shiloh for a walk). Soon after rising, I was asked to turn around what became a 2,000-word rush for my best client, which I did, after which I took a nap.
So the 2500 words to be done by the end of the work day have yet to be touched.
Yesterday's effort bagged about 4500 target words. Another chunk of the same job had to be sent back for OCRing, and although there's a lot of repetition in it, the 7800-source-word size is still pretty intimidating, expecially since the client wants that part back by the end of the day tomorrow.
It also occurs to me that I'll probably need to spend a couple of days before I leave - okay, one complete day - packing up all the stuff in my office in preparation for pulling up stakes for Colorado, although technically, I suppose this could be done once I return from my Houston gig. (But I kid myself if I think that!)
There'll be time enough for wondering about that later. Right now, there are about 2500 words of the current job that need bagging!
Cheers... |
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