jarandhel

Work is becoming more annoying. The storage area where I have been allocated space for my project is something of a multi-purpose room. Every time I go back there, it seems someone has multi-purposed my area into a new configuration. This morning the tables I had set up last week had been replaced (with better tables, so I'm not complaining too much) and moved into a new configuration sometime before I got in this morning. After a long day of shuffling things and rearranging them, we're almost set for the initial dry run tomorrow. And then, I walk back into the storage area, and find that my tables have been moved, even the one with all the paperwork laid out on it, for a yoga class to meet there. Don't even know where two of the tables are, including the one with the paperwork, I could only see two tables from the vantage points I had into the room. I really hope the paperwork does not get lost or mixed with the paperwork for other events, and I hope that the tables end up back in the configuration I put them in when the yoga class is done.

On top of that, I apparently have a choice to make this evening. I can either spend my evening going, by hand, through a 188 page printout and categorizing all registrants one by one into one of four categories to get totals I need for my project... (because it's apparently too much work for them to make a report that just gives me the totals, so they just print out a listing of registrants instead and make me do the work)... OR, I can spend my evening creating a script to parse the pdf file and do the counting for me. Any takers on which I'm likely to be doing? I'll give you a hint... this is not the only time I will need these totals, and regular pdf reports of this kind are my only means of getting them. Yeah, scripting it is.