Just woke up from a nap after starting to read the report/scope of work document. SpecBot: Last project where I opened my mouth and complained that reading put me to sleep, in particular reading the specifications of "other" architects than the one for this project I was bidding -- I actually got. Not a bad job in the end. The archichoke, a reading friend, did think my pre-bid walk about comment, as related to her four page specification, was funny in a sort of slap him in the head kind of manner and the other bidders seemed to think, determined by me not to be effective readers, from the jitter of their sidestepping away from my suspect within sight proximity, that I was just nuts enough to say such a thing. I admit that I have to read specs really really fast and with a hi-lighter, sometimes several hi-lighters and a color assortment of sticky paper tabs, so that I do not phase out. Reading specs is a sort of child's play at times though I avoid glitter pens. What is important with reading specifications is not consciousness, not even state of consciousness, but comprehesion. I rarely imagine that I have a need to read a particular specification twice while awake, and usually the fifth time around the pressing need is to deconstruct and explain it. ][<en