Wiiiii!!!!!

We got a Wii recently. It's a blast.
We got the Wii Fit yesterday. It's crazy fun.
(It's also pretty nice that the scale shows everyone's weight to be way less than it actually is.)
I'm working on a translation job that will keep me busy for the next several days and the Wii Fit is proving to be the perfect break activity. It gets my muscles stretched and my blood flowing a little. That must be better for my concentration than my usual break activity, which tends to be ... reading.

Lost in Translation

These computers and the Internet can do some pretty slick tricks, but they still can't translate for you.
Just ask these Chicago Cubs fans who thought they were proclaiming the inevitability of their new Japanese import's success. What their signs really said were, "Yo! It's a coincidence!"
Nice to know it's still gonna be possible to make a few bucks off of translation for a while.

Oh Boy! Oh Joy!

An all-nighter! Or as close to one as I get these days anyway. Suppose this is what I get for accepting a rush job during the pre-holiday weekend. It's been a while since I've done one of these. And actually, I'm kind of in the mood for it. I'm just generally feeling weird these days anyway.

The Joy of Translation

Don't you just love it when an eight-line-long sentence contains a parenthetical phrase that is seven and a half lines long and that first parenthetical phrase contains another four line phrase in parentheses?
That is why it can take me twenty minutes to get through one sentence sometimes. It's also why I usually just ignore the larger set of parentheses, when it's feasible.

Just a Bit of Microprocrastination to Sweep the Mental Floor Clean

One advantage of a having a nearly adolescent child on summer vacation is that I can get up at 6:30 and do 3 or 4 hours of translation work before she wakes up in the morning. Then we can go and enjoy the rest of the day.
There's something kind of crazy in the works now. Watch this space, ice cream lovers...