I just want a deliciously cooked turkey, a decent gravy, and a cranberry sauce (jelly in a can is fine, homemade is great). The rest is a bonus.

I took off and have left off for three years now 50 lbs after realising that exercise was never going to make me thin(ner). It just makes me hungrier! Now, that’s not to say that I don’t move. I do, a lot. But I control my weight 100% with my food. It doesn’t matter if I spent four days one week sitting at my desk as…

There are. There is so much auditory context, like a voice inflexion, that doesn’t really translate to text and which can make all the difference.

Nope, that’s exactly right. :) Sure you don’t want to come back over to the dark side? ;)

Even when clients are rigid about their standards, there is so much room for self-expression. Transcription is truly an art.

I’d enjoy it a lot more if it paid better. It’s really not hard, especially since I have the equipment (software and foot pedal for controlling the audio), unless the audio is really bad. I love to type. I just wish that I didn’t have to work 12 hours to make what someone with the same skill set who was smarter and…

Been expecting that for quite some time.

That one!

That’s incredibly refreshing. You made my day. I’m so tired of people literally laughing at my absurdly-low-but-all-the-industry-will-support rates. I always tell those people to go transcribe five minutes of their audio and then get back to me. Surprisingly, some people can be taught, but there’s a lot of derision…

I’m a transcriptionist. The popular conception about this field is that absolutely anyone can do it — you just listen and type what you hear. How hard can that be? Well, people don’t talk the way they write. So to convey what is said into a readable text that conveys the same meaning as the audio requires very strong…

This post brought back a buried memory for me, an aunt setting her big black roasting pan (the ubiquitous one “everyone” seems to have) on the stove to magically turn all the bits at the bottom of the pan into gravy. I can see her so clearly. She’d add leftover coffee from the morning instead of wine! This is going…

Our experience has been the exact opposite! My Seagate external drive is a workhorse!

Our experience has been the exact opposite! My Seagate external drive is a workhorse!

I’m with you on this one. Tip if you ever come to Mexico: assume there will be mayo. What kills me is that if I get my burger from a Mexican stand rather than an international fast food change my request for “sin mayonesa” will be honoured... but they’ll often put on sour cream instead!

I was fine with them as long as they kept replacing their crap, but not so much now!

I was fine with them as long as they kept replacing their crap, but not so much now!

There were a lot when I was RVing, but a big one was if I signal that I need to change lanes, do not speed up beside me so that I cannot make this lane change. I thought it was just me, but a lot of RVing friends reported the same behaviour. This often results in someone driving a huge vehicle in unfamiliar territory…

If you had turned that squash the other way (stem on top), you would have had Bert from Sesame Street...

Now, I don’t have this particular drive by WD, but based on my experience with their My Passport and My Passport Air drives, I would never buy one of their drives again — I had four fail right around when the warranty was up. WD replaced the first drive and then the replacement drive, sending me a different model. So…

Now, I don’t have this particular drive by WD, but based on my experience with their My Passport and My Passport Air…

Bit obvious perhaps, but the cranberry sauce... I like it when the cranberries are still a bit firm and I’m thinking they might hold up better with sous vide than when simmered.

Granted this was 10 years ago, but I did Vegas on a shoestring by booking a just off-Strip mid-range hotel with very regular shuttles back and forth (frankly, with the distance between the street and the various hotels on the Strip, I saw very little difference!). My hotel included good breakfast and dinner buffets,…

:) It will be interesting to see what my garden looks like at the end of my two-year lease. Right now, I have enough hubris to think I can even grow vegetables!