I got a chuckle, but then, I attended an Abnormal Pysch class in college.

I took computers. Which, when you think about it, isn't that much more different.

Especially if you get stuck working tech support like I did.

Here's a Delusion: "Tech Support actually is happy to be working there and really wants to help you to the best of their ability."

Here's a delusion: "Tech support is actually working on your problem."

I worked the IT desk for the faculty and staff of a portion of my college for six months. I'd frequently tell people it'd take me about 3 days to do whatever it was (if I needed to take their machine in for the Serious Stuff). In reality I could have done it in 8 hours (so 1 day) but I'd take my time with it. If it was more serious than I'd thought I'd have extra time. And I always had to wait for it to do a backup image anyway (that alone takes about 3 hours, and I did it before doing ANYTHING else).

Went to school for compsci, dropped when I found out they were focusing on dos programs so they could prepare us for the wonderful world of maintaining ancient bank systems for the maybe 3 years after we graduate before the banks all upgraded to something gui based...
They weren't even that subtle about it, "Projects 1-6: Random bank wants a new menu for their software. Read in a file of accounts and create a text choice menu with each option doing these specific financial functions on individual/all accounts." That was pretty much all 6 projects we did in my advanced C++ class...


There's another really common delusion, "This is how it is and always will be!" Belief that a current or previous implementation of something is the height of perfection and will never change, and acting accordingly. Like a hacker who insists on being called a decker, hardwires into everything, and refuses to enable wireless on his commlink. "Give it another year and this whole wireless fad will crash, and I'll be king of the deckers because I never went astray."

That's just buffer. It's been around since forever. I'm pretty sure Blacksmiths, back in the day, said "Three days for that spade" when they got it done in a handful of hours.

You know, I'll have to ask my local Blacksmith. (He's the owner of my FLGS/Army Surplus Store. Yes, that place is made of Awesome!).

I'm not local and haven't tried doing a spade, but it does not sound too complicated. The hardest part would probably be creating an evenly wedge-like cross-section over the full length and width of the blade...two or three hours would be by guess, less after the 200th

Actually, considering the difficulty in getting quality Entrenching Tools (They keep getting the POS Aluminum NATO-Issues, not the old wood and steel models), I might suggest he try to start building them himself.

I also totally installed and played Rise of Nations on my work computer...