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BEB - Buffalo wings, Egg, Bacon - YUM! Buffalo wings were from last night... they look good! Spicy, meaty, messy. lol! What was left was like 3/4 of the fried rice. I don't know, I just felt like eating all the protein on my plate. A friend of mine is getting married this month and I made them an AVP (audiovisual presentation) - actually, I made two - that they'd show during the reception in addition to the "on-site" wedding AVP. My first effort was around three months long since I've been doing it on and off with my WAHJs. When I showed it to my friends, the verdict was -- boring! Nyee! So, I had to (and desperately wanted to) spruce it up a bit - did more frames and effects and colors. None that are "tacky" though, I don't like "tacky" effects like hearts and stars. lol! Anyway, I did that for when I started to get the hang of Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 (it's an old version). And that was just yesterday. It's like, not thinking about

Transcription In the spirit of being a reliable WAH worker [grins], I've finished and submitted my last transcript ("last" meaning, before going on vacation) a few hours ago - again, before the deadline. [grins more] I am so relieved... That's one down and two to go -- Oh, not quite pala! I guess I'm still waiting for a re-affirmation of what we've talked about a while ago (like four weeks ago) about still having a spot on the transcription team when I get back. Well, she's on holiday right now so I guess that's why there's no feedback on the recent email that I sent. It was a simple schedule notice... sort of a "just in case you've forgotten" thing. I hope she didn't forget - I hope, I hope. Bookkeeping I've said that I wanted to finish my friend's first quarter books before I go. But from the look of things, it's not likely to happen. I'm just getting as many things done in that department as possible. I needn

Now, why in the world would I post pictures of my hand? It just so happens that I noticed something unusual tonight... I've got callous thumbs! Well, both thumbs have callouses on the joints. I reserved the right to zoom in on the thing since it looks nasty when you don't know that it's a thumb... yeah, yeah. lol! So, are they from bending too much while I transcribe? Oh well, that's a worker's hand right there. But to be honest, I feel that my right hand's pinky is the finger that's being working its butt off (not that it has a bum...) when timestamps should be in the transcript. See, it's got the Enter key, backspace, arrows, etc. to span out for. Oh, I've noticed something really cool... I found out how to type in the pipe symbol "|". It's by pressing shift-backslash. That's the key below Enter and after Shift for qwerty boards. Cool. OK, enough with the segue... back to transcription.

It is a used book but the point is that I've actually reaped my turker reward again. It cost a penny and the shipping charge was $3.99, so that's $4.00 total. My mturk earnings was enough to cover it... those pennies added up well. lol! Again, I've sent it to a US address so it'll be delivered faster. I expect it to arrive soon. So excited. See, it's from "thriftbooks" that's a separate dealer who works via amazon so I don't know how long it'll arrive. They said to expect it between May 24th to June 12th. That's so much better than having to wait 4 to 12 weeks if I had opted to send it here. Also, what I've found out about amazon is that some independent dealers don't accept amazon gift certificates for purchases. For example, "The Body Shop" doesn't accept them. I tried to buy these towel exfoliants that I bought my mom last Christmas -- I wanted one for myself -- and when I got to the cart, it said that the dealer