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| Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 10:05:53 PM |
Ahhh, I heard ya missed me...*blush* Honestly I was bumming out on Sunday. I woke up feeling awful. I figured it must have been the beer I had the night before at my friends' but I don't usually get hangovers and this one was packing a punch. Turns out it must have been a bug because I was running a fever, cold chills, muscles aches..the whole nine yards as the day progressed. It was probably a combination of stress and other factors that lowered my immune system enough for it to kick in. All I could think about was how I was going to be sick on my first day to work. Monday I was fair to middling though and did go in ... muscles were still sore and I think the middle of the morning I was feverish but I was good enough to get there. Monday was all orientation pretty much so it wasn't too bad. I got my badge, learned how to work the security system, set up some of my accounts on the network, and read a lot. The only thing that truly sucked was that I had given my previous job a 2 weeks notice so I had to cover my client from 5 to 8pm. So I put in a 12 hour day. Thankfully, Wolf had taken care of dinner and I had some food waiting when I got home. Today I took the bull by the horns and updated a document that needed work. I learned how to put in an ECR (Engineering Change Request) and complete a Design Review Report. I did the ECR backwards as I should have done that prior to changing the document but it all worked out. My new company is ISO compliant so everything you do has to be documented thus the ECR prior to change. We make cables. I need to learn the lingo so right now I'm doing a LOT of reading. I'm currently learning about conductors and insulation. Copper wire is the most popular conductor and insulation is pretty much what it says it is. You insulate your conductor to make it usable for various applications. I got to see the extruder machines that they use to coat the wire with various plastics and I got to see the other chinese machines that bunch the conductors and insulate them way faster than the US machines. I have a new found appreciation for cables. I spent many hours ordering them when I was a network tech but I never really thought about what was required to make them before I got them. In the company where I am now they manufacture bulk so they would actually be the company supplying the company I ordered from. They do a lot of customized cables for aerospace, military, medical, etc.. I'm an engineering "spec tech". I take the specifications and turn them into instructions for production. I figure out the man hours and costs incurred in the production of each quote. It's rather interesting. More so than I expected it to be. The company itself is great. Everyone there is friendly and seems to be very happy to be there. I think that in itself speaks well for the company. All in all I think it will work out wonderfully once I can wrap my head around all the new information and the math formulas. I missed reading up on everyone the past couple of days but I have to say the new developments in my life are pretty demanding right now. And I love it  off to look at cable samples & cook dinner kitt xxx |
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