He sat looking at the paperwork spread over his large desk; it had arrived late.
It had arrived very late. With a sigh, he looked up out of the window. He lifted his reading glasses and peered across at the rocket, sitting on the pad. Some sort of mix-up in Admin, he’d been told. It was so easy to get the calculations wrong. History supported that notion. Nobody likes watching an interplanetary spacecraft blow up before it’s even out of sight. Quite apart from the huge expense involved, nobody really likes it. That’s why it had been decided that when Admin had finished doing what it does to bring it all together, the final check falls to the Senior Launch-Ready Estimates Authenticator. Although he had never understood why they used the word, ‘Senior’, he knew he was getting on a bit, but there was only one authenticator, and that was him!
Glasses back on, he stared down at the paperwork again.
That’s why it was always left to him to do the final check. The weights, volumes, tensile strengths, fuel load, etcetera, etcetera. All of this was now represented by the spreadsheets, graphs, calculations and countless documents scattered across his desk.
He looked at the phone sitting on his distant credenza. No one had called… they wouldn’t dare. These last-minute delays are always avoidable. They should know that. Anyway, they are all well aware of what happened that time when somebody had tried to rush him.
With another sigh, he began to think about biscuits.
There were times when he fancied something with chocolate on it, but not always. In fact, although the vanilla-flavoured wafer things were quite bland, the enjoyment came when you bit into them. That crackling sound you got was something quite special. He closed his eyes and smiled, momentarily. There again, there were always those soft and sugary Anzac biscuits. They were always there!
He bent down, clicked open his briefcase and brought out his thermos. Pushing paperwork out of the way, he set it down. Next came the container with a great variety of biscuits.
She used to give him sandwiches, but these go so much better with coffee…
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