Tuesday, August 18, 2026

First Day Back

     And, oh shucks, nobody missed me.  (Well, hardly anyone.)  This, in my kind of Engineering Department, counts as a success: if we do our jobs right, fixing most things before they break, we're nearly invisible.

     On the other hand, nobody from Engineering has been to the North Campus for nearly ten weeks and I have no idea what I might find.  It's on a pretty wet patch of land, in an area that's had even more rain than we received in Broad Ripple, so I may end up taking the old entrance, which travels over higher ground to reach the slightly elevated spot where the building stands.

     I was pretty beat at the end of the day, but not in pain.  Tired enough to be grumpy, which I'm going to have to get used to and compensate for.

1 comment:

Robert said...

Welcome back!
"if we do our jobs right, fixing most things before they break, we're nearly invisible"
Actual conversation with a former boss:
Boss: (complaining) You haven't been on a service call in six weeks! We pay you to fix stuff! Go fix things!
Me: I did scheduled preventive maintenance so well, nothing has broken. It costs you $200 each time I go out to fix broken stuff. You want me to ask a customer to break something?
Boss: Uh... Good point. Nevermind. Good job.