Removing staples. Yes, I, and another, spent today at that, for said time. So that a paint could happen.
At times, when we ripped off a layer, only to find another layer, there were audible groans. Neither of us cried, but that's because we are boys working with other boys.
Programmers, people, take care to remember that what you do today will have to be cleared up by others someday—make it easy for us.
Don't build layers upon other layers.
[In the case of staples that means, for one thing, never put them in vertically: I nearly fell of the ladder at one point trying to remove one of these....]
I weighed the staples that we'd removed-- 0.9kg. A disappointingly small amount, probably less than the weight of the blood that I seem to have shed judging by the number of cuts on my hands.
Still, tomorrow I will be as wrong as I was today;
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