The Bloody Doors Off

I just spent a total of twenty-one hours within the last forty-eight working on two presentations for a contract job I picked up on Thursday.

The first couldn’t have gone smoother. Everything just made sense.

Then came the second job. It’s on SharePoint as it’s a living document, with four separate individuals adding content. So I totally understand the need to work on it online.

There’s just one issue: SharePoint is several generations behind PowerPoint in things you can do. For example, you can’t create or edit a slide master in SharePoint. Which meant, one did not exist for this nearing one hundred page deck. Every page had to be eyeballed, fonts had to be manually changed, that sort of thing. Oh yeah, nearly forgot. Because of some reason I can’t comprehend, the text boxes would expand width-wise when I clicked out of them. Which meant, I got to recreate those too.

But here’s the thing.

If you’re gonna have these kind of limitations, best you have me batting clean-up. I spent seventeen hours on this deck, and as of an hour ago, that motherfucker was pristine. You could eat dinner off of that floor.

And I still had enough energy to assemble a salad for my wife.

No doubt I’m gonna crash hard tonight, and tomorrow is another day. There will be further requests for this presentation.

Bring it.

(TLDR: I made a thing pretty. I’m very tired.)