I sleep on a towel
Have I mentioned that before? I pee myself all the time now, so it's so I don't pee on the bed. Ok, ok, it's not like a full-on pee, but I constantly leak urine. I guess the catheterization royally screwed my urethral sphincters. Le sigh.
It's a boring lonely weekend. Janelle is away dune-buggying. I was supposed to head up to Wyvern Rising (the larp) but on Friday afternoon I found out I had to work this weekend. Ok, well, I wasn't told outright, but my director strongly hinted that I should come in this weekend. We got a shipment of product in that has some issues.
On Friday afternoon, I pulled five samples and partially tested them for functionality. This is pretty normal whenever we get shipments in. Well, one didn't work correctly. So I tested twenty more. Another didn't work correctly, but with a different failure. In addition, about six or so had pin misalignments. The products is (was?) supposed to ship Monday, because it is backordered. Well, now I have to figure out a way to do a 100% sort on them. On three hundred sixty units.
So, today I was in work for 10 hours. I diagnosed the failures. When the units were hooked up to their mating modules there were some pins that didn't electrically connect, which buggered things up. I started building a weird jumper harness with 10k resistors in it so that I could test for opens/shorts with a simple resistance test, but I don't have all the components I need. I ordered some from Mouser, but they won't be in until Monday. In the mean time I have been putting the harness together as much as possible. It's taken forever. There are 108 pins on the units so I have to cut/crimp/solder tons of wire to make a harness. I really hope I don't have to make a second one.
So, it's the suck that I don't get a weekend this weekend. And with Janelle being away just compounds things. It makes me lonely. Today I got up, went to work, came home, dilated, and I'll probably head to bed right after I shower (I just dilated, but instead of washing all of the dilation funk out of me, I am writing an LJ entry).
Oh, there's also my back. Something is wrong with my back. I've never had a back problem in my life, but somehow my back got fucked up on Thursday. Or actually, maybe Wednesday. I woke up Thursday with almost crippling back pain. It's still going strong. I think it is subsiding a bit, but it's hard to tell because I have been pumping myself with pain killers. I don't know what I did. I guess this is what happens when one gets old.
So yeah, a very meh weekend. Funny how I only post when I am meh. Once again I have been thinking of setting up a Twitter. Maybe microblogging will cure my blogging impasse. I only know one person from the larp that has a Twitter. Things to think about.
It's a boring lonely weekend. Janelle is away dune-buggying. I was supposed to head up to Wyvern Rising (the larp) but on Friday afternoon I found out I had to work this weekend. Ok, well, I wasn't told outright, but my director strongly hinted that I should come in this weekend. We got a shipment of product in that has some issues.
On Friday afternoon, I pulled five samples and partially tested them for functionality. This is pretty normal whenever we get shipments in. Well, one didn't work correctly. So I tested twenty more. Another didn't work correctly, but with a different failure. In addition, about six or so had pin misalignments. The products is (was?) supposed to ship Monday, because it is backordered. Well, now I have to figure out a way to do a 100% sort on them. On three hundred sixty units.
So, today I was in work for 10 hours. I diagnosed the failures. When the units were hooked up to their mating modules there were some pins that didn't electrically connect, which buggered things up. I started building a weird jumper harness with 10k resistors in it so that I could test for opens/shorts with a simple resistance test, but I don't have all the components I need. I ordered some from Mouser, but they won't be in until Monday. In the mean time I have been putting the harness together as much as possible. It's taken forever. There are 108 pins on the units so I have to cut/crimp/solder tons of wire to make a harness. I really hope I don't have to make a second one.
So, it's the suck that I don't get a weekend this weekend. And with Janelle being away just compounds things. It makes me lonely. Today I got up, went to work, came home, dilated, and I'll probably head to bed right after I shower (I just dilated, but instead of washing all of the dilation funk out of me, I am writing an LJ entry).
Oh, there's also my back. Something is wrong with my back. I've never had a back problem in my life, but somehow my back got fucked up on Thursday. Or actually, maybe Wednesday. I woke up Thursday with almost crippling back pain. It's still going strong. I think it is subsiding a bit, but it's hard to tell because I have been pumping myself with pain killers. I don't know what I did. I guess this is what happens when one gets old.
So yeah, a very meh weekend. Funny how I only post when I am meh. Once again I have been thinking of setting up a Twitter. Maybe microblogging will cure my blogging impasse. I only know one person from the larp that has a Twitter. Things to think about.