Only slightly less serious than getting involved in a land war in Asia

Transcribing 20 hours of meetings from an Australian business meeting. That's what I've been doing for the last 4 days...utter nightmare. Could NOT understand their accents. Making it worse were the bad audio levels and the fact that a lot of the people preesnt insisted on talking over each other from all around the room except in front of the microphone... I will never transcribe ANYTHING every again. Anyway, so sorry to be MIA from my blogs.