Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

First thing I was supposed to do when I got to work this morning was to make templates for one of the guys to draft SOPs on for the new area that he's supervising. He can draft them out and then I can revise them, that way I still get the SOPs done for other areas and I don't have to shadow him for weeks to and be underfoot. So I go to my computer, and the computer company that services our computers did something with them last week and broke a lot of things. Accounting couldn't access the payroll or any of the inventory, no one could access certain folders, our document control girl could do pretty much nothing all day Friday. Well, I went in today and lo and behold, my folder with all the SOPs was gone. MEEP.

Well, it turns out it wasn't gone, they just moved the link for it. But I can still access it through doc share, except I can't because they accidentally revoked my access to doc share (but I could still get into the private share, which makes no sense. Doc share is public, private share is private. What on earth.)

So long story short, it took an hour and a half to make the poor guy his templates when it should have taken about ten minutes. Well darn.

So after the templates, I went back to assembly until lunch.

After lunch I was supposed to be upstairs surface mounting some shiny new priority boards. So I bebopped my bum upstairs, got my solder paste smeared all over my board pads, and then me and my tweezers set to work placing parts. I made one complete board, made sure it turned out as desired, and then pulled nine more and started making nine at a time. Now, my oven can only hold one at a time, but by placing parts on nine at a time, I save buckettons of time on looking for parts and searching the silkscreen for placements.

So I got all nine almost done, like ten more parts to place on each, when...

BAM!

Power went out. It flickered once, causing some of the machines to cry. A few moments later it flickered a second time, then died completely. No oven. I can't bake the boards. And I can't leave the boards unbaked until tomorrow because the solder paste has to be used within 8-10 hours. I can't bring them and the oven home to bake because transporting them with the parts placed but not baked would cause the parts to slide off. I can't take the parts off and replace them in the bags because it would likely cause many of the parts to be lost. So I have to leave the boards as they are, then tomorrow put new solder paste on new boards, transfer all the parts from the old ones to the new ones, and then clean the new ones so I can re-paste them.

Which is all good and well for tomorrow, it just means that for today I got nothing done at all. xD

Oh, and then on the way home the big traffic light was off too (four lanes in each direction) so we're supposed to treat it like a four-way stop, right. A four way stop with four lanes per stop, and since there's loads of cars maybe we could let like three or four per lane go at a time instead of one per line per go. Eh.

But then not everyone understands how to treat a stoplight like a four-way stop sign so we almost got ran over on the way home from some poor kid who was like "OH GOD IT'S A DEAD LIGHT WHAT DO I'M JUST GOING TO GO NOW K THANKS BYE!"