What a lousy week, I’ve had a cold and crappy cough since Tuesday.  It’s been bad enough that I haven’t gone to kickboxing this week.

Work is crazy busy as usual.  I’m at the point that I am done with being split between two departments and two jobs.  Both bosses both want me in their departments and the one that needs to look for a replacement for ( Read more... )

I got myself out of bed extra early this morning to in order to get into work in time to stop a pump modification that we were planning to do today.  After several weeks of arguing with the customer and trying to provide solutions to a problem; I finally figured out a solution that fit with how the customer was demanding it.  I don’t have a large ( Read more... )

I've been in meetings the last two days and have lots to catch up on.  Had a freak accident this morning when I tried to pick up a spool of wire.  The end whipped up and caught me in the eye.  It pulled my contact out and I can only imagine what it would have done to my eye had the contact not been there.  I'm still a little bloodshot.  The good ( Read more... )

Why is it no matter what time of the year it is, I need my space heater on in my office? 

With all the excitement of the weekend, I forgot to write about last Thursday.  I’ve been working on a project now for months.  Finally I was going to test the first panel and pump on Thursday afternoon.  This should be cake, but no.  First, nothing works in the panel, I look around inside and discover that the transformer is missing a wire, hence ( Read more... )

This is going to be another restless day for me. Probably means a lot of silly short entries today. I'll try to get my work done despite my lack of enthusiasm. No leaving work early for me today. I got to the office to find a name badge for me. Guess I'm supposed to wear it to dinner. There aren't a lot of people who don't know who I am. So ( Read more... )

Do engineers ever look at what they write? I'm supposed to quote a control for a pump station, but there are so many inconsistancies between one section of specs and another. Add in the drawings and I wonder if it's all from the same job. Sometimes I think they just cut and paste from old jobs. The control I'm quoting now called out for a pump ( Read more... )