August 14

Sometimes I feel like Scotty from Star Trek at my job. But I should have followed Scott's example and incorporated a fudge factor years ago:

Kirk: "How long to re-fit?"
Scotty: "Eight weeks. But you don't have eight weeks, so I'll do it for you in two."
Kirk: "Do you always multiply your repair estimates by a factor of four?"
Scotty: "How else to maintain my reputation as a miracle worker?"

I must've chapped the hide of the Monday Demon some time in the last week, because today I was hit with a bad case of "everything that can go wrong, will go wrong."

I'm grateful our old-school manual collator was never thrown away because the collating part of the printer went on strike and gave me 24 copies of Page 1, Page 2, Page 3.... all the way up to Page 42. Talk about papercut city. At least I was able to keep my reputation intact, with only a slight bit of tarnish.