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.

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