Family Life

After almost six months in the trailer I’m back inside. Personally I’m overjoyed. I’d dreaded the move out to the trailer back in the spring, and while not all my fears came true the experience was not pleasant. The trailer now stands empty waiting for a truck to take it away. I’m back in the [...]

This morning we moved offices into our new quarters. I’ve had a gloomy outlook on the move, and the day mirrored that mood–damp, foggy, gray. It was a bit sad leaving my old cubicle empty and abandoned. It’s nothing fancy, but I’ve been there for years and you grow attached. The actual moving was OK. [...]

What a deadly day it was today at work. Absolutely nothing to do. And yet if I did nothing I’d fall asleep in a heartbeat. Not good. So I spent the day trying to be busy. Or at least trying to look busy. A very tiring endeavour, with nothing to show for it at the [...]

After a few months of nothing much to do, it looks like we’ll be super-busy at work from now until the fall. A good six months of solid work. Nothing wrong with that. We’re bringing in a whole bunch of contractors to help out with the rush. The problem is we have nowhere to put [...]

It is increasingly difficult to justify my existence at work these days, mainly because I have nothing to do, but today I managed to earn my wages. I finished putting together ideas for a major upgrade to one of our machine lines. This was the first machine I designed when I started at the company [...]