Book 7 of 16

Going dark on messages

Days of unanswered thread. Explanations for the silence, including the ones that are almost true.

593 verses across 22 chapters

1. 1 I can't reproduce the thing I fixed yesterday Concerning
2. 2 I've lost a morning to an error message that isn't documented anywhere Concerning
3. 3 My estimate assumed one person would help and no person has Unverifiable
4. 4 I've spent the morning fixing something that broke on its own Unverifiable
5. 5 I've had three days of interruptions and one day of work Plausible
6. 6 The library we depend on has changed underneath us Unverifiable
7. 7 I've done the work but not the part that proves I've done it Unverifiable
8. 8 I'm waiting on a file that keeps arriving corrupted Unverifiable
9. 9 There's a comment on it from three years ago that says do not touch Not reassuring
10. 10 I've been told to stop and also to finish Concerning
11. 11 Somebody has scheduled a demo of a thing that isn't built Concerning
12. 12 I've been pulled onto something urgent and this is now the other thing Unverifiable
13. 13 It's ninety percent there and the last ten is the hard ten Plausible
14. 14 The whole thing rests on an assumption nobody wrote down Concerning
15. 15 It needs a sign-off and the person who signs off is away Plausible
16. 16 Somebody merged over the top of it Concerning
17. 17 I've been rewriting the same paragraph since ten Unverifiable
18. 18 My work from yesterday is not where I left it Not reassuring