gothest overtime ever.
So its 9pm and Im still at work, 11 hours after I started.
why you ask?
why are you missing midweek geek? and is it the same reason you were at work till 1am yesterday?
why?
because I need to make the black blacker.
yesterday afternoon we switched one production line from making N231 carbon black (a relatively light black) to N234 carbon black (our second blackest black, after N134). I stayed back to test the first samples for tint (blackness), because I have the latest hours of any tech, so me staying back = the least overtime to pay. There were nozzle problems and assorted dramas so we didn't get the first sample till 8pm.
it wasn't black enough. So the workers modified the input and we tested and retested.
still not enough. I eventually gave up and went home.
I got in today to discover the problem still unsolved, and as quittin time got closer I was told if the black wasn't black enough I'd have to stay back again to try and get it blacker.
well low and behold if its still merely pitch-midnight black, rather than the black black we are looking for, and with little sign of improvement.
sigh, I am not looking forward to cycling home at 1 am.
the lack of streetlights and my bikelights dead battery mean a long dark lonely ride in the cold night air witth a high likelyhood of stacking it in one of the many potholes on our awful road.
plus I've still got stuff to write for eyecon, so Im probably not sleeping tonight.
I may have to sleep through much of eyecon.
why you ask?
why are you missing midweek geek? and is it the same reason you were at work till 1am yesterday?
why?
because I need to make the black blacker.
yesterday afternoon we switched one production line from making N231 carbon black (a relatively light black) to N234 carbon black (our second blackest black, after N134). I stayed back to test the first samples for tint (blackness), because I have the latest hours of any tech, so me staying back = the least overtime to pay. There were nozzle problems and assorted dramas so we didn't get the first sample till 8pm.
it wasn't black enough. So the workers modified the input and we tested and retested.
still not enough. I eventually gave up and went home.
I got in today to discover the problem still unsolved, and as quittin time got closer I was told if the black wasn't black enough I'd have to stay back again to try and get it blacker.
well low and behold if its still merely pitch-midnight black, rather than the black black we are looking for, and with little sign of improvement.
sigh, I am not looking forward to cycling home at 1 am.
the lack of streetlights and my bikelights dead battery mean a long dark lonely ride in the cold night air witth a high likelyhood of stacking it in one of the many potholes on our awful road.
plus I've still got stuff to write for eyecon, so Im probably not sleeping tonight.
I may have to sleep through much of eyecon.