Scanning the Horizon

In mythology there is a creature whose task it was to roll a giant stone up a hill. Everyday he'd do this and never stop.

Today my task is of the same monotonous variety. I am scanning, scanning months of records from the company headquarters into the computers into our crude system of digital archiving. We've been doing it for months now and have not gotten very far yet. We've scanned over 100,000 pages of information already. Each page takes about 30 seconds to scan and enter into the computer. Thats about 50,000 minutes, or about 830 hours. This could be a full-time job for someone. We still have boxes and boxes of company records to get through. As of right now, the light at the end of the tunnel is non-existant.

We only scan when we are relatively short on hours. It has been pretty quiet on the days that I have worked this week, so I am making up some hours in the office scanning.

At least it is air-conditioned in here.