That’s how I feel right now…

I have that strange situation happening in my mouth as I get used to two missing teeth, and the worst of the lingering pain is the sites where the dentist injected the anesthetic…

Work was a series of small disasters. I got out to the jobsite this morning to find that the electrical contractor foremanw as wandering around with two drawings he’d been given to complete his portion of our current project, and those drawings bore only the most vestigial resemblance to the equipment we actually had installed. I started into panic mode, translating the travesty he had into something that would actually work. After about fifteen or twenty minutes of growling to myself and anyone within earshot, I called the next guy up the ladder. That guy said HE had just gotten the REAL drawings in. I hopped in my car and ran up across the plant to the construction compound and grabbed acopy of the NEW “correct” drawings. That’s where I broke for lunch.

Returning from lunch, I started comparing them AGAIN to check the new drawings against the actual installed equipment. You guessed it. Still wrong. An hour and a half later I passed a new list of wires to be installed to make OUR stuff have the capability that the engineers and designers failed to specify in the factory equipment. And I took a copy of my version of the CORRECTED drawing back up front to have it transmitted to the engineer in far-off Illinois…

There’s still a ghost or two that I have to track down in another piece of new gear, something to do with microprocessor devices which are sensitive to very small electrical signals being operated in an environment where hundreds of volts and thousands of amps are the normal operating condition.

We’ll finally get it right. Hell, if it was easy, they’d let ANYBODY do it…