Why's it take longer than it used to? (Oct.'09)
This started out as a favor and turned into a hobby business. Originally I would pick the cylinders up at lunch, do them on my free time, and mail them back on my way home from work. That's why for a long time the standard quote was "same day", or "next day" turn around. Situations changed and I was no longer able to do that. So it became "3 days maximum." That gave way to "3 business days". But after spending way too many late nights at the work bench to be sure I kept my word, I'm down to "Around three business days." More often then not, it's less than three days. As I've said before, when this starts to become too much like work, I'll stop. Well the "worry" is often more trouble than the work itself. So no more doing them in the wee hours. No more forcing myself to do them when I really don't want to, or shouldn't. Neither of those things help the quality of the work, or my attitude towards the "business" in general. I started to dread doing them, it started to become more work (worry) than I wanted. So rather than stop all together I cut myself some slack. So on a rare occasion a cylinder may take a week, but I'm sure you'd agree it's better to make you wait a few extra days than to force myself to do the work half heartedly, half awake, or under the weather.