the glories of proofreading

I've been dragging through a very busy week at work. We're in the final phase of production of this issue of the magazine, which is a quarterly. Lots of proofreading, editing copy (again and again) to fit the design space, and frantically calling for photo credits, double checking factoids, and the like.
We've done pretty well, considering that in terms of workflow, pretty much everything that could happen to push the production train off the rails has happened. The computers wouldn't talk to each other. Everyone had a different version of the page-layout program. The server hated one of our computers, we just couldn't figure out which one.
The good news is we're almost finished with this issue and it looks good. The bad news is that we get to put another issue out in half the time it took to put this one out. It's not that I can't imagine doing that--I've put out larger books every two weeks, and we actually have 6 weeks for the next one--but ironing out all those crazy computer problems will make the difference between meeting our deadlines and not.
I've got an Echo column due by Tuesday. Have the idea, sort of writing it in my head. We'll see if it pours out the way I intend, or if I have to go back to the drawing board and write it out before it gels.