Feels like people are overthinking this way too much. A day is nothing, folks get busy or miss an email all the time. Just follow up once, wait a week or so, and stop stressing about some magic deadline.

Learned that same lesson when a loose neutral nearly started a fire in Boise, so now I torque every single lug by the door spec.

His paper slip was old and thin and he never felt it grab, that part stuck with me. Had a buddy down in Houston who ran a whole bridgeport off paper for 15 years and never scrapped a part. Then he got a new batch of cheap paper that was thinner than usual and buried a half inch hog into a fixture plate. Cost him the job. He bought an edge finder that same day and said he'd never go back. Paper only works until the paper changes on you. The edge finder doesn't care how tired you are or how thin the slip is that day.