Ready for the Week to be Over
Could’ve done without most of yesterday or the day before. The one bright spot was getting to hang out a bit with ishtar137. But prior to that…
For my current project I’ve been preparing a test plan to submit to the FAA. I wrote it, the other engineer in the Floats group reviewed it, the engineer we report to in France has reviewed it, the VP of Engineering has reviewed it, we’ve discussed all of this in our weekly meetings (which said VP attends) and that we were going to get it signed off and submitted this week. So I get the department secretary to print the thing out (it’s actually several different documents and appendices, each of which needs to be signed by myself and the VP). I signed them off and gave them to the VP. This was Monday.
So Tuesday, I get the stack back from the VP with a whole bunch of new comments and changes (and a note asking if the guy in France had reviewed the document - which he’d already been told had happened in the weekly meeting). So I go back and make the edits, send the files to the department secretary to get prepared for signature again, sign them off and give them back to him.
Around 1 o’clock I get them back… still unsigned, and with new comments and changes. So once again… edit, submit, sign, give back to the VP. Haven’t gotten them back yet - maybe he actually signed them this time?
I also sliced my thumb open while trying to assemble my project prototype.
Around 2:30, I got a call from Bonnie telling me that her car had broken down (that makes the third time this year, and we’ve already put over $1000 into that heap trying to keep it running), and that I’d have to leave early from work to pick Lily up from her day camp.
I checked out her car a little bit that night. Looks like there’s something wrong in the electrical system. Sigh.
Yesterday, the Internet was out all day at work. And my whole evening was taken up with waiting in a parking lot for the tow truck to come get Bonnie’s car (he was about an hour later than promised), and doing household shopping.
And now it’s another work morning, and I don’t want it to be.
For my current project I’ve been preparing a test plan to submit to the FAA. I wrote it, the other engineer in the Floats group reviewed it, the engineer we report to in France has reviewed it, the VP of Engineering has reviewed it, we’ve discussed all of this in our weekly meetings (which said VP attends) and that we were going to get it signed off and submitted this week. So I get the department secretary to print the thing out (it’s actually several different documents and appendices, each of which needs to be signed by myself and the VP). I signed them off and gave them to the VP. This was Monday.
So Tuesday, I get the stack back from the VP with a whole bunch of new comments and changes (and a note asking if the guy in France had reviewed the document - which he’d already been told had happened in the weekly meeting). So I go back and make the edits, send the files to the department secretary to get prepared for signature again, sign them off and give them back to him.
Around 1 o’clock I get them back… still unsigned, and with new comments and changes. So once again… edit, submit, sign, give back to the VP. Haven’t gotten them back yet - maybe he actually signed them this time?
I also sliced my thumb open while trying to assemble my project prototype.
Around 2:30, I got a call from Bonnie telling me that her car had broken down (that makes the third time this year, and we’ve already put over $1000 into that heap trying to keep it running), and that I’d have to leave early from work to pick Lily up from her day camp.
I checked out her car a little bit that night. Looks like there’s something wrong in the electrical system. Sigh.
Yesterday, the Internet was out all day at work. And my whole evening was taken up with waiting in a parking lot for the tow truck to come get Bonnie’s car (he was about an hour later than promised), and doing household shopping.
And now it’s another work morning, and I don’t want it to be.