Other stray thoughts enter the slipstream

Along with cuts from Poetic Champions Compose, I've got whole bunches of ideas floating through my head today at work. Not least of which, of course, is why this place (the wider Y, not the smaller YSC) is so crazy intent on "cost recovery" that nothing can get done.

I'm about to give up on a request (a simple, easy, not the least bit out of the range of ordinary request) for the hi-res version of some pages of an InDesign file so I could create a blow-up reprint for framing here in our waiting room.

Should be no biggie; no can o' corn!

But no; lo, the cost recovery dragon breathes it's fierce ungainly breath:

...sending you a high res PDF of the file, it would be a $25 fee. Any additional design time would be billed at $125/hr.

OK. That's me complaining. Enough of that today.

I'm just going to grab text out of the lo-res pdf available online and toss it into a new layout of my own with the hi-res photos I have here already. Will that take me more than an hour? No. (Cost of my time, not to mention preserved sanity: Priceless!)

But in my alt world head I think

shoulda charged you for my hi-res photos when you were creating your original layout for this

Heeeeeeeeeeee!