It's amazing how bad I am at estimating how long simple tasks* will take.

I had a nearly finished manuscript. I just needed to tidy a few things in it and then upload for review

Two hours tops I told my family.

5.5 hours later...

#AcademicChatter

*Manuscript describes 4 years of work by 5 different Regional Climate Modelling groups over the Arctic and the Antarctic and collectively we produced around 8 Petabytes of #climate model output

Not quite LOTR, but not far off.

@Ruth_Mottram "Let's go home, Sam" 🥹

@pvrahbek Oh man yes. The security guard has just beenpast to check my badge and I deserve a beer.

#Laters