The scene: Where the tall corn grows
Status of the protagonist: Getting cross-eyed staring at spreadsheets, realizing that one was set up with different alphabetization rules than the other
The internal dialogue: “Woof, transferring one data set to sync with another slightly different one is harder than I thought. But I’d like to work with the most recent population estimates rather than the 2010 numbers.”
Thirty-six hours later:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2019
City and Town Population Totals: 2010-2018
