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(5:58AM) Will it be another Monday on a Wednesday? This enquiring mind wants to know. I was surprised yesterday when no one came to invade my space, although the day before I was told that they would, not by just one person, but several. Maybe they'll forget to show up again today and my stress level will stay in check. As a result of what I thought would happen there were a couple of things I did that probably should have been done months ago. I had two pieces of test equipment that were overdue for calibration for a month or more, and I took care of that. Then there was the matter of updating the test procedures I use. I've been using procedures that haven't been updated since their inception three years ago. I only use them as a guideline moreso than anything else, but if an inspector comes by and sees me using them he might ding me for it, and somebody wouldn't be a happy camper about that. I'd probably hear about it from next upper level bean counter.

I guess I'm starting to rebound a little bit from my past funk, and I suppose time will translate that into something on the order of what once might have been. Maybe it's this thing of summer turning into fall, but right now it feels like it wants to skip fall and go right into winter. Last Friday was the first frost of the fall season, and we were barely into October. In a couple of weeks October will become a thing of the past, well, this one anyway, and November will jump out out of nowhere. The time is zipping by way too fast, and I remember as a kid how time just seemed to drag on and on. Summer vacations from school seemed to last an eternity, but now that summer vacations are a thing of the past, so is the summer. Of course I didn't do any of the stuff I would have liked to have done, and one day I will have to make a concerted effort to change that even if it means having to go it alone. I didn't go camping like I would have liked to, and I didn't take anything even close to a vacation. I think I wrote something some time ago about that, and I probably deleted it, but it was somebody else's vacation, and that was what counted.

With little else to share at the moment, methinks I'll grab my coffee mug, and make that trip that I so often do at oh-dark-thirty in the morning. Until the next time around comes around, I'm gone.

(2:04PM) Currently, I find myself in a Geritol moment, and I still wonder if they make that stuff. I've been running on empty since lunch, and I'm thinking it might have to do with that last cup of java I drank. I think I made that pot, so maybe that has something to do with the way I'm feeling. Aside from that I'm doing half bad, but it's the other half that has me wondering. There was a little bit of good news on the day, and that was hearing that the president of the division was going to retire at the end of the month. I think the last time I heard that kind of news is when George Bush finally stepped down from the presidency, and I think I felt the same way then. The guy who's been running this show for the last four years I compare to a cue ball with an attitude. He has been your typical high level bean counter with a level of arrogance suited for the position, and I wonder if his replacement will be the same way. The guy that he replaced way back when wasn't all that bad of a chief executive, but he was clueless on a number of things, and this guy has not been much different in that department. I think in the four years he was running things he came to this location twice. He might have been here a time or two more than that, but he was never here long enough to get a gist for how things operated, and I don't think he ever really cared to find out. But again, his days are numbered, and I'm not saddened to see him go. I'd even be willing to help him pack his stuff, and I think I'm gone now.