Standard Procedure is that for new design projects there is a minimum of two weeks lead time. There are of course emergency exceptions which can be a short as “I need this today.” The problem is, that when you can get assignments from 15-20 people, responsible for 100s of products and projects you can find yourself with a lot of exceptions. When you have a period of several days in which you get one emergency project after another, it gets tiring. But at the end there is a moment when you can sit back and breath a heavy sign of relief that the burden of crisis after crisis has been lifted.

But it is a brief moment. All too soon you realize that all of those Standard Procedure jobs that you have put off to deal with the crises are now either due or late. At this point is seems that no matter how hard you work you will never get caught up.

Most of all it really sucks when working for a living gets in the way of blogging an event like Inauguration Day. I haven't even had a chance to read/hear the speech yet. There is not much I can say about the whole day except, Congratulations, Mr. President.

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