Focus… Focus…
It’s always a time of distraction, the week before print deadline. There’s tons of work to do, but it has yet to coalesce into the full-on structured panic of deadline week itself. There’s still a vagueness of what goes where, just how many words are needed for which article and just what was supposed to go into that four page gap that’s just appeared in the flatplan. It’s also the time when stuff appears late for last-minute inclusion in this issue, or early for inclusion into next issue. Add to that the regular distracting dribble of review kit and personal purchases and boxes (like the one that just arrived from www.daveyatescycles.co.uk with a disc-mount Kona conversion for Sim and two (ahem) removed siezed seatpost frames for me… It’s a wonder we get anything done at all… 