Monday, December 15, 2003

Ok, so my hassles with moisture probes are not over yet. We ordered one from England and I had to figure out how to calibrate the darn thing. Luckily there's software the company provides, to help with this. So I had to figure out how to hook the probe up to the computer and talk to it via RS-485 protocol. Not a problem. So after I get all that done and read the manual on how to calibrate it, I look online to see some engineering notes about the company's products over the years. I get to a report (these reports are from the company so it's a nice service they put out, and they should for the price you pay) that says you should really do the calibration externally and just use the default calibration internally. So now I'm torn. I can easily code up some lines to calibrate within the application, but it could be much more precise, yet much more time consuming to calibrate it internally. If only I had real issues like normal people.

To top it off, I've decided The Workplace is indeed a Seinfeld episode every single day. Not only do we get conflicting reports about the same darn projects from different people, there's absolutely nothing we can do about it. I usually just laugh it off and think which Seinfeld character am I. I know I'm not Kramer, nor am I even close to the worrier George. I've got it down to Elaine or Jerry and since I don't really care to be a girl, I've decided I'm the Jerry of our little automation department. I crack the jokes about everyone else and find the humor in everything going on. Ashley's a big worrier and likes to get excited sometimes so he's George, but with normal hair. That leaves Randy as Elaine. Switch the genders and you've pretty much got a perfect match. Intelligent yet ready to tell the unbelievable stories that just happened to him and fight for what he believe in. Finally the most obvious of all is GW as Kramer. Not only does he come up with completely outlandish ideas, we never really see him doing anything. Yet things always get done.