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Off topic: Lake Geneva to Salzburg by bike
As I’ve said before, I think that most freelance translators (and really, people in general) need to have more fun. So, the sole purpose of this post is to tell you about something I did that was fun,...
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Off-topic: baking your own Swiss walnut bread
Ever since my family returned from our summer in Switzerland, I’ve been meaning to try some Swiss baking techniques. Swiss baked items are often simple but delicious, relying on excellent ingredients...
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Off-topic: fun and easy crafts you can totally make
In the Thoughts on Translation household, we try to make most of our holiday gifts. It’s fun, it’s personal, it fits with the frugal lifestyle and it keeps us occupied during the time of year when the...
View ArticleOff-topic: How to keep blogging for a really long time
…well, a “really long time” in Internet years. When I click “Publish” on this post, WordPress will cheerfully tell me that it’s the 552nd post that I’ve written since February of 2008, which is when I...
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Off-topic: chocolate truffles you can make for the holidays
I’m in the mood to think about things other than work, so here’s a recipe for chocolate truffles that anyone with reasonable culinary skills can make. For this I consulted my friend and colleague...
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OT: Planning your own bike trip in Italy
I’m a firm believer in the benefits of a life outside of work, and one of my main non-work passions is bicycle touring. My husband and I like to say that our daughter (who’s now going on 13) got *us*...
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OT: Mountain biking in southwestern Colorado
The Thoughts on Translation household just returned from two glorious, computer-free weeks of vacation which we spent mountain biking in southwestern Colorado. If you have zero interest in mountain...
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OT: two ultra-easy holiday gifts to make
It’s that gifty time of year again…and if you, like me, have a surplus of artistic ambition and a deficit of artistic ability, but like to make stuff and don’t want it to look like a preschool art...
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OT: Bicycling from Martigny to Bolzano
The Thoughts on Translation family just returned from our summer vacation: a week of family time in Switzerland, then a three-week bike trip through the Italian Alps, from Martigny, Switzerland to...
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Completely off-topic: Make a chocolate salami as a holiday treat
I took last week off to mountain bike in the Utah desert with my family (it was stellar, thanks for asking!), so I thought I’d ease back in to real life with an OT post. I like to cook, and I also like...
View ArticleOT: Back from Beautiful British Columbia!
After a thoroughly relaxing month off (well, minus the day that my bike was stolen off our car in Missoula, Montana…but that’s another story!), I’m back in the office as of today. As usual, the...
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OT: Hiking tour of Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland
This is an off-topic post; just a subject I felt like writing about, and that might be of interest to some readers. Long story short, I needed to travel to Switzerland before the end of the year for...
View ArticleOT: Applying for and using Global Entry/TSA PreCheck
Off-topic here, or perhaps not, since translators and interpreters do tend to travel a lot! This applies only to US residents, so feel free to ignore it if you’re outside the US.Since I joined the ATA...
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