A fine kettle of fish.....
Jun. 9th, 2016 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ianukRecently we've noticed that Ben is confused when we use colloquial speech and phrases or idioms. I'm having to explain a lot of them which has been fun and frustrating because I'm not even sure where some of these come from. This mornings was "hold your horses" which is pretty self explanatory if you go rushing into things but to explain it to a 5 year old takes some work.
Anyhoo....just before I left for the convention I put in a large number of hours and paperwork on an engineering task I had been handed. I was given the solution and needed to implement it after testing had completed. This task had a very short turn around and I used all of my resources to do a good job. From the mechanical standpoint the job was good. From the electrical solution I was given it was probably not the best and this was pointed out to my by the production chief versus the one I had completed the task for. I had not been given all of the information to make a good full system decision. but I was also distracted by the timeline and the fact that the con was that week and that I'm trying to be a good engineer, learn things and not make any waves until I get my place in the new program.
The chief is very personable and even though I felt about an inch tall from the very very nice dressing down I felt pretty awful about it. I left work despondent and almost just went home to drink myself to bed. But I decided that with the information and distractions at hand, well, I made the best decision I could. So, meh. I went to knit night and had a nice time and then home for snuggling up on the couch with some tv and a book. I even went to bed mostly on time. My edema while better with a day of wearing compression socks is not perfect and I'm wearing more today. Hopefully by the weekend things can recover and I'm going to get more rest. DAMMNIT!
I've been doing a good job on the EI front. I have been taking that class to heart and just working on some of the strategies. There are lots of strong personalities on the new program and I'm trying not to feed the fire of egos though in this case I may have stepped back too far....oh well.
Chatted again with the chief on another issue which went really well and then brought up the issue that was not good and I apologized. He was a bit taken aback I think and was not worried about things in the way I was. His was really No Harm, No Foul since the decision wasn't completed yet and its scope now is shortened. So that made me feel good though and I'm now able to think a bit better. I had a nightmare this AM and then was stuck in a dream for too long which made my mental state this AM a bit fragile but now better. I'm still hella tired and tonight I'm going to bed early and sleeping until late cause damn.
My A&S projects are progressing so I just need to slam out the docs tomorrow in first draft form and finish the first hat. Plus cleaning of studio from the con mess and getting back to some sewing after A&S is done. A clean studio will make that easier and honestly its not too bad. I just have stuff I packed spreadout and a few bins need to get put back. All good.
Anyhoo....just before I left for the convention I put in a large number of hours and paperwork on an engineering task I had been handed. I was given the solution and needed to implement it after testing had completed. This task had a very short turn around and I used all of my resources to do a good job. From the mechanical standpoint the job was good. From the electrical solution I was given it was probably not the best and this was pointed out to my by the production chief versus the one I had completed the task for. I had not been given all of the information to make a good full system decision. but I was also distracted by the timeline and the fact that the con was that week and that I'm trying to be a good engineer, learn things and not make any waves until I get my place in the new program.
The chief is very personable and even though I felt about an inch tall from the very very nice dressing down I felt pretty awful about it. I left work despondent and almost just went home to drink myself to bed. But I decided that with the information and distractions at hand, well, I made the best decision I could. So, meh. I went to knit night and had a nice time and then home for snuggling up on the couch with some tv and a book. I even went to bed mostly on time. My edema while better with a day of wearing compression socks is not perfect and I'm wearing more today. Hopefully by the weekend things can recover and I'm going to get more rest. DAMMNIT!
I've been doing a good job on the EI front. I have been taking that class to heart and just working on some of the strategies. There are lots of strong personalities on the new program and I'm trying not to feed the fire of egos though in this case I may have stepped back too far....oh well.
Chatted again with the chief on another issue which went really well and then brought up the issue that was not good and I apologized. He was a bit taken aback I think and was not worried about things in the way I was. His was really No Harm, No Foul since the decision wasn't completed yet and its scope now is shortened. So that made me feel good though and I'm now able to think a bit better. I had a nightmare this AM and then was stuck in a dream for too long which made my mental state this AM a bit fragile but now better. I'm still hella tired and tonight I'm going to bed early and sleeping until late cause damn.
My A&S projects are progressing so I just need to slam out the docs tomorrow in first draft form and finish the first hat. Plus cleaning of studio from the con mess and getting back to some sewing after A&S is done. A clean studio will make that easier and honestly its not too bad. I just have stuff I packed spreadout and a few bins need to get put back. All good.
