Complications

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This brings us up to date, more or less.

me: Your aim has not improved. You missed again.
god: What matters is that I try.
me: I love it when I can say, 'Missed again, Idiot!' Should I change that to, 'Try again, Sweetie.'?
god: That would be preferable.
me: Would you enlighten us a little concerning your legendary inaccuracy? How did it happen?
god: The proper aiming of lightening bolts was actually in the documents which the design group had presented to me; however those documents were all destroyed in the initial explosion. I therefore never learned the procedure.
me. I see. But couldn't you have had the design group draw up a duplicate set of instructions?
god: I could have and would have but for the ensuing complications.
me: Complications?