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Fabulous photo Caz. Thanks for sharing that .

cazmanian_minx

Work started about 7.30 this morning, typing for Mr RPC. I finished at 10.20 this evening after being contacted just before 5 with a 'HELP! Regular transcriber has sent back a file only 25% done, can you do it tonight?' Since Mr Minx's beloved Leeds Rhinos were playing, I took it on and have had a fascinating few hours typing up an interview with a Motown singer from the '70s. The journalist has very kindly pointed me in the direction of a Facebook group she's a member of where people are always asking for good transciptionists, so I shall investigate that tomorrow Am slightly knackered, but have that satisfied glow that comes from (a) a job well done, (b) being able to help someone out and (c) going above and beyond what was expected (I offered to put the first part of the transcript onto my template so she didn't have to flick between the two and since it was going to go out with my name on, I checked it through against the audio, timecoded it and reformatted it to my template style). It's worked out at £36 for just under three hours' work, happy with that

gallygirl

Here's hoping it leads to loads more work Caz - and potentially very interesting :T (just don't transcribe any voicemail messages :eek:).

Great picture - it was too dark where I was to notice any difference :rotfl:.

cazmanian_minx

Am completely cross-eyed after an epic 12 hours of proofreading (with short breaks for feeding me and the animals!). I think there was a bit of a mix-up with the assigning, because I found 19 files (17 hours of audio) allocated to me this morning and instead of doing the sensible thing and emailing the weekend person in charge to say, 'Help! Too much!' I thought, 'Well, I'm not doing much today and the money would be handy,' and waded in. Wrong choice!

Anyway, in an only vaguely MSE-related thing, this is what happens to a horse's heels if you decide to treat his deep central sulcus thrush with a £12 jar of manuka honey instead of forking out for one of the many specific lotions and potions on the market.

22nd January - first day of treatment:


Today:


Still got a way to go before we completely get rid of it, but as you can see from the way they've expanded and the hairline's come off the ground, he's loading the back of his feet so much better. His stance has improved and he's obviously more comfortable on hard surfaces as well I'm not sure we'll ever eradicate the asymmetry in the right hind, Robbie thinks whatever caused that scar damaged his digital cushion quite badly, but we'll do the best we can.

cazmanian_minx

I've not done a lot today Packed the orders this morning, broke down all the empty cardboard boxes in the annexe as it's recycling bin day, typed a file for Mr RPC and then spent a decadent two hours on the sofa watching the last two episodes of Wolf Hall.

I did, however, get my banking sorted out and money all shuffled into the accounts it should be in and I've had an email this evening asking me if I can do some transcription tomorrow night as I've been recommended (I think by the person I helped on Friday, which is nice).

cazmanian_minx

Right, time to get cracking with closing this business down. Have put all the leather and 100m reels of cotton cord on sale at £2 off and am now downloading all my data from EKM and checking the files are okay before I ring them to cancel the account - no point in paying £29.99 a month for something I'm not using.

cazmanian_minx

EKM shop cancelled, lovely lady on the other end of the phone

I forgot to say yesterday, I've decided to start saving in a very, very small way. One of the things that's been playing on my mind a bit about not having an overdraft on my personal account any more is the penalties if I go overdrawn simply through having the right money in the wrong account, as it were. Putting food and fuel on the cashback card is mitigating this to some extent, but from now on, every time money arrives in my account, whether it's £500-worth of proofreading or £15 of Mr Minx paying me back, a fiver is going into the YNAB savings pots, split as follows:

Retirement: £2
Car replacement: £1
Rainy day fund: £1
Shiny stuff fund: £1

(Mr Minx and I have a joint emergency fund, which currently owes £230 to the mortgage offset account after it got wiped out and then some having the roof fixed last month!)

These might get raided if I'm within sniffing distance of paying off all my debt by my 40th but in the meantime, they'll build up as a nice little buffer between me and a disproportionate overdraft charge.

cazmanian_minx

Another emergency transcription job done, hopefully a happy new client The downside of five hours straight of typing is that after too much time in headphones I can hear my heartbeat inside my left ear, think it's called pulsatile tinnitus. It'll go away after a bit (though usually comes back when I get into bed and change from vertical to horizontal), but it's annoying. I've had it for years and years, but it seems to have got a little worse recently - think I'll olive oil my ears for a week and then go and get them syringed and ask them about it at the surgery (I have ridiculously narrow ear canals and wax blocks them very easily).

DebtFree2012

Ermmm was that midnight time I see??? A tired caz today?

cazmanian_minx

DebtFree2012 wrote: »

Ermmm was that midnight time I see??? A tired caz today?

Might have been Actually, I'm not that bad, I turned the alarm off and woke up around 7.30 (okay, because there was a spaniel washing my face, but still an hour and a half later than normal!). Did the horses, including M's feet, had a shower (which I never normally do in the mornings) and sat down at my desk at a very civilised 10am. What I'll be like by 8pm, however....! Mr Minx is back from his business trip later, so he might find a snoring heap on the sofa.