My brain is fried, I think.
Work has been crazybusy recently. I'm up to my ears in cleanup projects as we frantically prepare for migrating from one ERP system to another. This system change will effectively time up most of my coworker's time, which means I will be absorbing 75% of her workload while she works on that. This will pull my average change load from 25 change orders (busy but doable) to around the 40 mark (crazy). I'm not terribly looking forward to that, although it does mean I finally get to do some new product development- that is the fun side of change control, building something from scratch, and I've been stuck maintaining stuff at Production for two and a half years now.
If that were not bad enough, we just acquired another company. There's info on the website if you're interested. So while we're doing all this we also have to integrate another company's parts and procedures into ours. There's a lot of challenges associated with this... They're ISO9000 certified, we're gearing up for the ISO13485 certification; they're on a paper-based change system, we're completely electronic; they do a lot of reselling, which means we need to consolidate our WEEE/RoHS labeling for Europe, not to mention the technical files for the CE marking.... Gnnnnnh.
Time is getting tight. Information is not always moving freely to where it needs to go to get stuff done. I will be amazed if I come through this with a full head of hair.
We finally have Ethan's computer up and running again. Andy, it was RAM issues; it was causing some OS corruption, as far as we can tell. Mixed in with some crappy video card drivers it became a little harder to diagnose. So Ethan was using his day off today to finish getting and installing and testing RAM. We will now likely try to recover some of his older hard drives (from his last crashed system) and look into building a communal server.
So I've been trying to see the positive in stuff as much as I can, primarily to keep myself sane. This weekend I'm taking a mitten knitting class with a few of my coworkers. I could probably figure out how to do it on my own easily enough, but it's the social part of it I'm looking forward to.
We're also having a big family dinner on Sunday afternoon for Valentine's Day. I'm tasked with coming up with something with a lot of chocolate for dessert. It will be fun to make something really decadent, most of my cooking recently has been... utilitarian, to be blunt.
And I just got tickets to the Minnesota Dance Theatre's production for the Carmina Burana-- it's happening at the Pantages Theatre in March. Ethan and I are planning on having dinner with Tae and Dan beforehand. It's going to be a great evening out.
If that were not bad enough, we just acquired another company. There's info on the website if you're interested. So while we're doing all this we also have to integrate another company's parts and procedures into ours. There's a lot of challenges associated with this... They're ISO9000 certified, we're gearing up for the ISO13485 certification; they're on a paper-based change system, we're completely electronic; they do a lot of reselling, which means we need to consolidate our WEEE/RoHS labeling for Europe, not to mention the technical files for the CE marking.... Gnnnnnh.
Time is getting tight. Information is not always moving freely to where it needs to go to get stuff done. I will be amazed if I come through this with a full head of hair.
We finally have Ethan's computer up and running again. Andy, it was RAM issues; it was causing some OS corruption, as far as we can tell. Mixed in with some crappy video card drivers it became a little harder to diagnose. So Ethan was using his day off today to finish getting and installing and testing RAM. We will now likely try to recover some of his older hard drives (from his last crashed system) and look into building a communal server.
So I've been trying to see the positive in stuff as much as I can, primarily to keep myself sane. This weekend I'm taking a mitten knitting class with a few of my coworkers. I could probably figure out how to do it on my own easily enough, but it's the social part of it I'm looking forward to.
We're also having a big family dinner on Sunday afternoon for Valentine's Day. I'm tasked with coming up with something with a lot of chocolate for dessert. It will be fun to make something really decadent, most of my cooking recently has been... utilitarian, to be blunt.
And I just got tickets to the Minnesota Dance Theatre's production for the Carmina Burana-- it's happening at the Pantages Theatre in March. Ethan and I are planning on having dinner with Tae and Dan beforehand. It's going to be a great evening out.