Clara K. Dicklust Spouse Minnesota, Marriages, 1849-1950

Clit Cherrie United States, Census, 1880

ICYMI: Trump says his administration won't approve any wind or solar power projects. Reminder that Big Oil spent nearly $100M to get Trump elected in 2024. It's a huge payoff for his corporate donors at the expense of a livable planet.

@jeansibelius.bsky.social Good morning! Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 – First movement: Allegro moderato www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtG3...

@jeansibelius.bsky.social Good morning! See my post on Twitter, too. I think I'll move back there. Juan Vicente Torrealba: Concierto en la Llanura www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlkg...

The vixen never saw her fox mate slaughter the chickens. (Apologies to foxes, who kill to survive, not for pleasure) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.

Good morning all! "I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience."

His mate hadn't been quick enough to flee the country in 1956. I think my dad and his mate must have spoken about half an hour (all we had because had to catch the train out). Then when they said goodbye, they just started sobbing. And then I started scrating in response. Tears in my eyes now :(

I remember the first time we went to Hungary (by train) when the restrictions on people who fled the countrry in the 1956 revolution was lifted. My dad met up with his best mate on the Fisherman's Bastion: www.locationscout.net/hungary/4846...

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That's OK, it's hot there. I remember the summers, helping my granddad brush the horses (one was called after my pet name: Bandika), deliver hay, getting to drive the cart and horses. Sometimes I walk the fields and smell the Hungarian countryside 🥹 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Yeah, just not the ones in power.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

And that translation is finished. Now time for a workout, press-ups for my arm muscles and weightlifting for my back muscles. Coz priorities ...

(4) So if you want a good translation, I'm the one. As I also say, we're the best proofreaders. My customers always say I'm Argus-eyed: I pick up on all the mistakes in the German source text. That's called delivering value added. But everyone wants to cut costs these days, so quality is buggered.

(3) Those aren't my translations 😜 But stuff like this is putting us out of a job. OK, I've made my money and I just want to plod calmly on till I drop because I'm passionate about my job. I love driving for excellence. But I'm worried about the young ones coming into the profession ...

(2) website called DeepL. It's a translation tool. And it's not bad (and sometimes very good). A lot of customers use it now if they just want to get the gist of an article instead of paying for it to be translated. But it cocks sentences up, too. So as more and more companies use it, remember:

(1) This speed is mainly thanks to Translation Memory, a program that automatically inserts the translation for sentences that are identical and you translated before. It also shows you where the changes in near matches are. And I'm sure AI is going to revolutionise things ever more. There's a neat

The counterchecking is done and I picked up one missed "the". You may ask: "An hour for just that?" Well yes, I try to be a perfectionist in my work (but laid-back otherwise). It's just my professional ethos. And part of that ethos is also NOT demanding perfection from others. Now some translating.

So to the counterchecking. And now I can put on some music: Swan Lake.

I used to do one Annual Report that always ruined my Easter (and I love Easter, even better than Xmas). Then one year was a late Easter and the report was to come a few weeks before. But then there was a delay because the CEO had been caught embezzling and cooking the books. So guess when it came?

Done with the checking! Now I just need to countercheck the with last year's version, but you don't need a thinking cap for that. It's concentration only. If you'd told me yesterday I'd make this much progress, I would have said "naw." Looks like I get a weekend after all. 😀

Just 3 pages to go, but they're tricky: The titles & positions of Executive Board and Supervisory Board members. If you don't get them right, these suits can get pretty stroppy, bless them. Mild inferiority complex, one feels. It's probably why they want to dominate & run other people. Leadera, ha!

That's the next 5 pages done & I'm still fresh (thanks power nap). I remember back at the Siemens Nixdorf translation department in Paderborn and we had an intern who introduced us to it. Clever kid. But some weren't open-minded enough to try it out and complained about him lying on the floor. 🙄

🐥 Sending laughter your way to ease our political woes #Dogsky #Dogs 🐥🤭🤣

Almost anyone can end up homeless. Many people's lives are a delicate financial and personal balance. If one of those plummets, it's very easy to lose almost everything and end up living on the streets. We need to start treating our fellow citizens who have wound up in this situation, better.

I just glad I'm not an accountant. At least in translating you do get to be creative occasionally and its great fun puzzling over solutions. As one guy being interview in a Monty Python sketch said: "I'm a chartered accountant and so have nothing interesting to say."

Believe me, translating Accounting Policies is hard graft. They often refer to standards that are drafted in English, so you need to go searching in those standards - sometimes you're looking half an hour to find the right translation for a word. But as I said, I'm very conscientious.

I'm biting this job off by checking 5 pages at a time, then having a short break. I'm down to 15 left, plus one part I want to countercheck against last year's version (the Accounting Policies; they don't change much, but sometimes the customer makes its own changes afterwards, so safety first).

The sad thing about this year's translation is my American colleague can't check it, because his left eye is going blind. He was once worried about the loss of business that would mean, but I just reassured him by saying we should tell customers we apply the one-and-half-pairs-of-eyes principle.

Yesterday I translated over 140 standard pages. Admittedly, there were only about 40 new ones, leaving 100 which were identical/similar or needed a bit more revision. That works out about a weighted 75 pages I'll charge for one day's translation plus (as things are gone fine) two day's checking. 🤑

I've translated the Annual Reports for this company for 20 years (with an American colleague who checks my work) and, you know, I'm really proud of what I've achieved. It requires meticulous work (but I'm conscientious) and can get boring, but we've done a fine job on them. I want a medal.

Remembering the Ghouta gas attack 😢😢😢

Time for a Power Nap 😴

And now I've got my corrected computer glasses - and they're good, especially for reading. 👍

OK, breakfast time :)

Better get tow ork: After translating 140 standard pages, yesterday, now comes the checking and the "filigree work". A bit of a nervy task, but now I can take it casually :)

Good morning! Mercadente: Il giuramento – Compiuta è mai ... Fu celeste www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzxr...

Trump to withdraw from peace talks? When mail-in voting was such a vital part of them?

Another early start. I'm just up when I'm up these days, but my peak work season is upon me, with a huge Annual Report, so it's good I can wake early and feel well-rested. It also means I get a siesta :)

Another mosquito in the room - but do I care? Come for my blood, it‘s been alcohol-free for five months. Bad choice of victim …

@imaginenotlilith.bsky.social (5) In that case, maybe we’ll see each other in the next reincarnation, when we can resolve the issues there still appear to be. I wish you, you who are special, all the best in life and love. Whatever your choice, I will always treasure and adore you. NRN.

@imaginenotlilith.bsky.social (4) If you want to talk, I’d love to! I’ll welcome you back with a big hug, no ifs or buts, no unforgivingness. I’d also like to learn what I did wrong and how I can mend it. But if your urge is to move on, you MUST do so and follow YOUR path. Then we must let go.

@imaginenotlilith.bsky.social (3) I hope you also learned from me & it helped you grow. But my debt to you is greater: You’ve opened up a new world for me. Have I “ausgelernt” from you and time to leave? Dunno. But I’m on the right path & I’ve felt at peace (not always – impossible in this age).

@imaginenotlilith.bsky.social (2) It now seems we’re not soulmates, which is sad. I suspect we have a karmic relationship, which tends to be more toxic. And who wants to be in one of them? Yet you learn from them too. You taught me to rediscover spirituality, for which I’ll be eternally grateful.

@imaginenotlilith.bsky.social (1) FWIW, what I needed to say: I had wanted to tap into your deeper insights, ask questions, gain a better understanding. You called me a soulmate, but numbskull Andy was sceptical & needed distance (sorry) to finally grasp (very recently) it was true, so I thought.

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