After the past two days, I can state unequivocally that reviewing large documents on screen is a pain in the you-know-what.

No more of simply circling errors in red ink, or marking quick notes in the margins of dog-eared pages. Now we gotta write down the chapter, section, page and line number, and then specify what the error was.

"Chapter 3, Section 3.19.1, Neotropical Migratory Bird Management, Line 9: add 'Eurasian collared dove' after 'starling,'"

Pain in butt.

Many times over.

And yes, Melissa, I know this saves trees. With this huge three volume set, lots and lots of trees.

It's still a pain.

And also a surprise when you scroll down a page and see your name mentioned in someone else's document. But hey, yeah, I did do that.

A quarter-century ago.

It's a bona fide reference. But geez, folks. That tells us either...

a) we did great work in our quickly thrown together research project way back then, or,

b) nobody else has paid any attention to this problem in what amounts to most of the lifetimes of some of the professional people writing this document.

Guess which.

Oh, and Doug,

"Sl�n agus beannacht leat."

Means "Goodbye and blessings with you" according to my quickly googled source at Irish-Sayings.com. And no, I neither speak nor read Gaelic.

But how I wish I did.