Avnet - Swiss Army Memory "Knife"

Avnet - Swiss Army Memory "Knife"

Yeah, I'm a tech geek, but this thing is pretty damn cool if you ask me.

Not seeing the Forest for the Trees

Don't you hate it when you've been working on a project for a long time and seem stuck in a rut on a seemingly tough portion of it only to have someone who has not put in any time or effort come over and say "Oh, if you did X, Y, and Z you'd be all set."  Arrrgggh!  Well, it happened to me this morning. 

I've been trying to design a hard stop for a tilt drive we have and have been running into failure issues due to the high torque on the thing.  My boss comes over and asks for an update - so I run him through everything and then tell him where I'm having issues.  Then he goes "Well, what if ou modify the gear so that it's impossible for it to rotate past a certain point."

Duh!  I've been staring at this thing for a week, running all kinds of funky calculations, doing all kinds of funny number crunching and then he comes over and solves it in five minutes.  So freaking irritating.  But, at the same time, it's a great idea that I would have missed - I knew I was looking too closely at this thing.

But, hey, it's Friday and it's almost lunch time, so things can't be that bad today.  I can't wait to get out of here.  We're going to see Bourne Supremacy tonight.  I can't wait.  It looks awesome.  Then we're heading down to Jersey tomorrow to see Brent and Christy.  Should be a fun time.  Alright, enough blogging...time to get back to work here...

Dragging Arse...

The last few days have been hellish here...I've been dragging my butt around work without much of anything doing.  My projects have all kind of stalled and I don't feel like I have the energy to jump start them.  Weird kind of funk I'm in.  Work is once again becoming that place I go to just because I'm supposed to be working - it's the thing I should be doing simply because of where I am in life...well, what if I don't want to do that?  What if I want to stay home and not work?  Just me being me right now, I guess....one of my typical funks.  I'm sure the fact that I haven't been the gym in a long time and I'm mentally battling the need to have a proper diet with the desire to eat like a normal person (one a side note, I sure am using italics a lot today).  OK, enough dinking around...maybe I can get some work done if I leave this be for a while...