Psh.

The Wednesday that has become a Monday. Better make that "The Tuesday and Wednesday that became a Monday".

I've been working for months on the design of an elementary school in the next county over. Understand that I don't design the school itself, but rather the civil design that goes with it (curb & gutter, land grading and drainage, utility hookups, etc.)

Here is the problem: The plans from the architect show a nice, pretty drawing that you should be able to plop down on the parcel, add water, and voila! Instant school! Or so I assumed. Big Fatal Mistake #1.

Closer examination of said architectural plans several months into the project reveals that none of the curbs and gutters are aligned with each other; they're all off by a few inches.

Somewhere along the line, we relied on a survey done on a set of coordinates that doesn't correspond to anything in the real world, thus eliminating our ability to check it against the county's master survey.

The county that we're building this in has its own survey coordinates that, in and of themselves, don't correspond with anything else outside of the county. North isn't truly north within the county, but rather, a fraction of a degree off.

Trying to adjust for deficiencies, discrepancies and other problems has resulted in the whole school being located about a foot and a half south of where it should have been.

A foot and a half may not sound like much, but one of the company principals is furious. Something like that can tarnish a company's reputation. And though there were many problems between the architect's plans, the survey, and what is actually out there on the ground, I can feel the blame shifting toward me.

Today rather sucks.