the critical path less traveled
Well the Ottawa trip is a go. Three days of training from October 11 - 13. Normally these training trips are halfway between actual work and a vacation, but I don’t think this one will be so easy. Since it’s just us (me and one other person), we had the class ‘customized’ to skip all the beginner stuff and cram five days of classes into three. Hopefully this will lead where I want it - to work outside of Moog, but that remains to be seen. In any case, it’ll be nice to break from the routine for a few days. Never been to Ottawa, they tell me it’s nice.
Back at Moog, the testing schedule has been pushed up a week for god-knows-why. Between that and losing a week to training the pressure’s been ratcheted up several notches, and I’m stuck on the critical path. Specifically, I’m the one who is writing and performing the qualification tests. The project lead is getting all nervous, to the point of having a hissy fit every time someone asks for a few hours of my time. I’ve been putting in extra hours, but I’m not stressing out or anything. Been through this so many times I’m beyond caring. Another reason I should be moving on.
In other news, Trevor made the Modified soccer team at his middle school. They kept 22 of 55 who tried out, so to make it as a seventh grader was pretty impressive. At least to me. Kind of a strange story: Trevor was cut from the summer 11-12 year old team. The coach of the13-14 team, a friend of mine, picked him up, and kind of took him under his wing. So Trevor played with older kids, improved an awful lot, and by the end of the summer was starting on defense. Comes the fall, Trevor made the Modified team, while the coach’s own son, who played with Trevor over the summer, was cut. It made for kind of an awkward moment when I saw him last weekend. Anyways, Trevor’s first game is tomorrow. Screw the overtime, I’m going to go watch it.
Back at Moog, the testing schedule has been pushed up a week for god-knows-why. Between that and losing a week to training the pressure’s been ratcheted up several notches, and I’m stuck on the critical path. Specifically, I’m the one who is writing and performing the qualification tests. The project lead is getting all nervous, to the point of having a hissy fit every time someone asks for a few hours of my time. I’ve been putting in extra hours, but I’m not stressing out or anything. Been through this so many times I’m beyond caring. Another reason I should be moving on.
In other news, Trevor made the Modified soccer team at his middle school. They kept 22 of 55 who tried out, so to make it as a seventh grader was pretty impressive. At least to me. Kind of a strange story: Trevor was cut from the summer 11-12 year old team. The coach of the13-14 team, a friend of mine, picked him up, and kind of took him under his wing. So Trevor played with older kids, improved an awful lot, and by the end of the summer was starting on defense. Comes the fall, Trevor made the Modified team, while the coach’s own son, who played with Trevor over the summer, was cut. It made for kind of an awkward moment when I saw him last weekend. Anyways, Trevor’s first game is tomorrow. Screw the overtime, I’m going to go watch it.