Work...

Well I have succeeded recently in fixing a machine and breaking one at work. Okay well I didn't really fix the one it actually finally got set up. Well that took 2 months and definitely wasn't an easy to do project. After a while it felt like I was basically fixing it. Well it is working now. The next step is to figure out how to make it actually work! Okay so in figuring out how to make it work I may discover that it actually doesn't work, but that I just couldn't see it now. That is another adventure in waiting. I will tell you what though that machine definitely isn't a damsel in distress!

Okay so I also didn't break the other machine. I believe a fellow co-worker broke it and didn't realize it. So I have been spending several days now getting it back in shape. I have done several needed maintenance tasks and I thought that would fix it up nice. Well that didn't do it. We did find a part we needed and maybe that is the cause of the issues. We will have to see, the part is currently in the mail.

The kids are also getting over their colds yesterday and today. I hope they are feeling better. We didn't help them much yesterday when our neighbor cleaned their carpets and offered to let us use the cleaner as well before they took it back and we took them up on that. The kids were up till past 9 pm. I think it was actually closure to 10. They don't usually sleep in much either so it has been hard today to tell if they are feeling better through the crankiness of not much sleep. I am headed home to play with and wrangle them and to hopefully keep them out of Alison's hair so she can write her talk for Sunday. I am looking forward to hearing her talk. That doesn't mean I will actually hear it while keeping the kids in some state of reverence, usually they go to pieces when one of us leaves during church. We will see how that goes.

What a week!

Okay so it has been a while. There were some issues that I was dealing with over time on getting a journal written. Basically I dealt with a new computer at work and then a but of temporary security restrictions because somebody got a bad virus in their email. Then at home our computer died. It is definitely interesting to have a time in life where there is no computer. Wow. I kind of like it. I also don't really know what to do with myself because lots of what I like to do revolves around that. Oh well.

So this week I have had an interesting and hard few days of work. Basically I had a co-worker get let go or fired. She was on a trial period of work and she managed to not do well enough for them to want to keep her around. Sadly they were really looking for enough of a reason to not have to let her go. She just didn't get enough done, and could focus on hardly any one thing at any time. Overall she wasn't productive in any area and actually never accoumplished completion of any major project on her own. This is a place where you have to be productive on your own. The hard part about the situation is that she focused some frustration during her interview on me being the cause of her downfall, claiming they wanted me instead of her and that they trained me instead of her. From her perspective I can see it. Overall though she did receive at least 5 times the training that I did and still managed to do nothing. She had lots of time where she was reading the news and surfing the internet.

That all actually happened last week, and this week my boss who had to fire her spoke with me and said that he really wanted to hire me. I would have to compete for the job and all that but he laid out a step by step plan of what I would need to do to best present myself and get past the filters to the people doing the hiring, mainly him. So I am optimistic about that potentially opening up. I am not sure if I really want to be "chilling" in Vegas for a long time but perhaps it will do for a bit.

I also thought I was bout done with some samples, and found ten more I needed to do. Then being unfocused, tired and careless I broke a bottle holding another. That means about 8 days work to prep it all over again. Argh. Oh well, at least there are 10 others that need it as well.

So I have decided that I really need to not get less than 7 hours of sleep a night, or I become a zombie and am miserable, and totally unproductive...oh well.

That is all...dinner is waiting.