Yesterday and today I was tasked with doing a project that Batty will remember very well. It involved maps and overlays and marking pens and numbers, lots of numbers. Shapes that look like amoebae (amoebas?) in different colors. Using alcohol and cotton swabs to remove and redraw....

My fingers are all different colors (I was one of those children who got dirty when I went out to play) and my office reeks of alcohol and marking pens and the resultant product is very close to perfect.

As perfect as it gets. Most of these projects can be drawn and re-drawn to different parameters by different professionals, but this one was mine and I had a great time doing it. Usually I'm stuck using a keyboard and mouse, but today I got a chance to visualize in three dimensions and create kinesthetically. Fun!

This is when I love my job.