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Nerdville: the beer coaster project.

Project Length As Measured In Dog Years

"Why can't the rest of you be more like Rollins, here? He does his homework!"

"Three weeks until the pitch, LOADS of time!"

"I thought you were making a coffee table?"

God's Subcontractors

"Remember now, anything is DIY-abe if you just do it yourself."

Breakthrough

Deadline

"You pulled most of the muscles in your back lifting your to-do list? You've got a bigger problem than pulled muscles."

Waiting for retirement.

Five Ideas For Success: Always finish what you. . .

"Let's face it, this meeting isn't about tightening our work schedule. It's about stretching our deadline."

'The project isn't that important, so put some of your worst people on it.'

'Uh oh. I can see another few hundred will be added to your bid.'

"Whether we refer to them as lakes or ponds, it's mere semantics."

'We're waiting for an estimate that doesn't make him do that.'

"I'd love to sit down and discuss my project with you some time. Let me check my calendar and I'll get back to you."

The Best Laid Plans

Child has practiced building sand castles in snow.

'Regarding our deadline - have we moved to long-range planning or still stuck in short-term excuses?'

Summertime... When you go zero to 'booked up' in 3.5 seconds

"Ok Mr. Bisley, I'll admit it does need a bit of renovation..!"

'My hubby is getting better at D.I.Y. . . . Oh yes, he now spends more on screws than plasters.'

'Dad, perhaps the fan should suck instead of blow?'

"This says you should expect to spend six months and at least $800 building the perfect lowrider bike."

'Why do it the easy way when you can do it the right way?'

We thought we'd put in the detail later.

Biblical Procurement Tales: Project Ark.

'Of course, that bid's just an estimate.'

"We thought we could put in the details later."

"My schedule is just nuts."

"Someone's screwed up. . . there's apiece of road here no-one's working on!"

A revised statuary for the city of tomorrow