Normally this involves time - wasting procedures such as (deep breath)... sending the
document to print, checking the printer to see why it isn't working, adding new toner or fixing a paper jam, searching around for a pen, finding a pen but then
discovering it's out
of ink, finding another pen and signing the
document, scanning in the signed
version, emailing it back to the other party, then finding a place to file the physical copy.
... Following the release
of version C in mid-1996 there was the typical delay in the appearance
of the published results (August 1998), during which we
discovered a temporal component to the instrument body temperature effect (discussed later) that was interannual, not just intraannual as
documented in
version C.