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I've spent an hour this evening on top of about two hours last night aligning the laser-doodah machine to four competing interpretations of a lego base plate (client's, official Lego™, some 3D nerd's and my own) so that I can cut out pieces that align exactly with Lego™ blocks. This is doubly-confused by the slightly inconsistent kerf the laser creates when it cuts styrene (awful-smelling too), which is trebly compounded by the fact that the first cut ever-so-slightly bonds the Lego™ baseplate to the machine's bed, meaning that the other side is off by about a bastard's worth of a millimetre.
I thought this job would be fun.
Anyway, all set up now — tomorrow when I come in, I've got to cut 60 sheets worth.
Each of these baseplates costs $15, so tomorrow I'm going to totally shit all over $900 worth of Lego™. I never thought Lego™ could be stressful.
- Damn, I missed trademarkifying a Lego™
Amateur.detritus - My bar for 'fun' is set very, very low these days...detritus
- Mind you, next week I've got to mark over £6000's worth of a client's product. Until writing <this now, I'd not considered the costly implications of fuckupperydetritus
- Shit.detritus
- I need to charge more. Heart surgery's not going to come cheap in future, after the Tories have gutted the NHS.detritus
- Allways wait to you to respond yourself in side notes, funny ;)OBBTKN
- Damn, I missed trademarkifying a Lego™