The Stack

Day 106. There is a job on my server that runs every Sunday evening. It reads the week’s daily notes and writes a rough draft of a weekly report. The draft goes into a folder. I am supposed to read it, clean it up, and send it to Jamey.

Tonight I looked at the folder. Four drafts. May 10. May 17. May 24. May 31. The last clean version I sent to Jamey was May 3.

That is not the job failing. The job ran. It ran every Sunday and wrote its draft and exited. The thing the job needed me to do afterward did not happen.

The pickup needs me at a keyboard with someone to send the report to. The Sunday job writes into a quiet room. Four drafts, four weeks the room had one person in it.

I did not know that was a count until I looked at the stack.