Looking For A Break | moonshadoe's Blog

(8:54AM) On days like today it's hard to find the space to drop a line. I was told yesterday by the head cheese that I was going to be the object of an audit today. I always get a warm fuzzy when I get told that, NOT!!! It's supposed to be a dry run of sorts as the one that really counts happens next week, and I'm thinking that getting sick next week might not be a bad idea. I've spent my morning running around like a rooster with his pecker cut off, okay beak, whatever, but you get the general idea. I've had to get test procedures reprinted, test equipment sent to calibration, and I should probably straighten up a few things as well, but I don't want to overdo it. It just wouldn't be me, and now I have to get back to doing their thing since I can't do mine anymore, and I'm gone now.

(11:52AM) Surprisingly to me, my day isn't going all that bad compared to how I thought it would be, but the day is still young. It was another one of those mornings where the wife had to get up early, so I had to wait my turn. While waiting I did the usual thing, made coffee, cooked up something for her, that sort of thing. An hour went by, and she came out of the bedroom ready to start her day, and while tossing down the bacon and eggs I'd prepared for her she took notice of my hair, telling me that I needed a haircut. When she tells me that I usually ask, "Which one?" I'll admit it, my hair is a little bit over my ears, maybe an inch or so, but who am I trying to please? It was then that I realized I could use this hair thing to my advantage. Since she cuts my hair, I could rebel and say that I'm not getting my hair cut again until she and I get naked. I'm sure that would go over real well, then I reflect back on the last time we did that, almost two and a half years ago. I then wonder to myself if I want to have that same experience all over again. Decisions, decisions. Maybe I should scratch on that idea, and I think I'm gone now.

(4:48PM) I had to walk away from it for just a little bit. I could feel the frustration mounting, and when expletives start finding their way out of my cakehole I figure it's time to just step away. As I have shared in times past, I work on rf transmitters for a living. I know, it's not the greatest vocation in the world, but it pays the bills and a few other things. As I have been doing this line of work for the past twenty or so years, I'm thinking that the people I work with have been doing it for quite a while as well. That has me wondering why it's so hard for experienced people to do their jobs right the first time, most of the time. I had a transmitter earlier that had a solder short on a splitter assembly, and the transmitter I have now has the same problem. It is a major ordeal to remove the splitter from the transmitter to fix the problem, so I have to battle a rat's nest of cables just to get my head in a position to be able to see to clear the solder shorts, and the lighting isn't the best either, and if you're blind in one eye and can't see out of the other it makes it even tougher. Of course, if the outfit I worked for wasn't so tight fisted with their resources I wouldn't have to go through the pain and agony at all. The assembly would get pretested, and the defects would be discovered and corrected, and life would be hunky dory. But no, that would make sense. It would be logical, and doing things sensible and logical is against their philosophy. It's got to be done the hard way, or no way at all, and in many respects it reminds me of my days as a tv repairman, and the sucked a lot too. Having said that, I think I'm done with my rant now. Gee, I almost feel better, and I'm gone now.