The first part of the big move is complete, glory be... We worked really fast, too, it was all done in two hours. Tomorrow we have to drive to the storage facility and try to make everything fit in there. I think we have to get some cardboard boxes to pack some of the stuff in a way that saves space... Anyway I'm happy and amazed that we've come ( Read more... )

   I feel very pleased to be here again today. I've been spending a profitable evening translating a doctor's statement for an insurance company, something I've never had the occasion to translate before. I'd like to get more medical texts to translate, because it's more interesting to me than economics, and I also feel the need is greater than ( Read more... )

   I'm all disappointed, because the money for the laptop didn't arrive on my bank account in time for us to go shopping today, so we'll have to do it on Monday instead (or tomorrow, if by a miracle the bank accounts do electronic transfers during the weekends *facepalm*. Anyway, I've not had such a bad day in all, because I decided to make the ( Read more... )

   This has been a productive day of sorts. I got in touch with the unemployment agency people, and they told me that there should be no problem about getting a grant, being off the employment market for a year, and then coming back, if I don't find steady employment in the meantime. I also read some more of the book I'm supposed to translate, and ( Read more... )

   First of all, I would like to apologize to any friends who may feel that I haven't been commenting posts as often as usual. I will try to mend my ways in the near future. I've been away from the computer quite a bit this summer, and when I get to blogging, I often just browse through the posts on my friends page and proceed to writing. I do read ( Read more... )

   No, I haven't changed my policy on staying indoors when it's raining. I very rarely go out at all in the rain if I don't have to, so it's always a novelty, and often not as bad as I thought it would be. Anyway, I'm watching these two young boys, who are out there, in the pouring rain, swinging and talking. I suddenly remembered that I've seen ( Read more... )

   That's a cheerful question, isn't it? I don't think my greatest fear has come true, and I think it's a bit of a contradiction in terms, because once it comes true, it's less of a fear and more of a catastrophe, or at any rate a thing that happened to me. I didn't die on the operation table during my heart surgery, and I think that has been my ( Read more... )

   I haven't mistaken the day, in case you're wondering. I usually have a question as the entry title on Thursdays, when I answer one of the 50 questions to free your mind. However, this question keeps turning up like a bad penny. Am I too happy to be creative?  Being a typical journal-writer, I suppose, I much prefer writing when I have something ( Read more... )

   I've been feeling a bit bad today. You see, I sent off that translation I did, and almost by return of e-mail, the client pointed out a mistake, that was simply an extra word I had left in. The other client, whom I wrote the bill for, wasn't altogether happy with my work either, and said she had to correct some punctuation errors and small ( Read more... )

"...and the snow come shov'ling from the sky". This has been a day of amazing changes in weather, and we have had wind, rain and even hail, in addition to the snow. There's a pretty high wind blowing as I write, and I hope there won't be a storm. We have big trees in our yard, and we don't want them falling down. To have trees falling down on power ( Read more... )