When "close" is NOT good enough...

Striving for perfection is a natural thing.  My Dad's favorite saying, when I'd show him something and ask if it was "good enough" was "Close enough for government work."   

You'd think that being 99.9% accurate is a pretty good rating, but consider this:

*2,000,000 documents would be lost by the IRS each year.

*315 entries in Webster's Dictionary would be misspelled.

*5.5 million cases of soft drinks produced would be flat.

*18,322 pieces of mail would be mishandled every hour.

*880,000 credit cards in circulation would have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic stripe.

Makes that "point one" percent look pretty major.  So, if you do something that requires extreme accuracy or the results will have similar negative effects as the list above, how accurate are you?

Birthday Advice

In honor of my daughter's 28th birthday today, I offer the following advice:

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. 

Mark Twain

Happy Birthday, Jenny Marie.  

Love,

Yo Momma