Welp. Might as well use this for what blogs are traditionally used for: To complain!

As some of you know, I work third shift. Usually, things go pretty smoothly and I have some extra time to log in around here and say hey to the night crew.

This did not happen last night. Why?

Because everything decided to implode at the same time.

Two of the three machines we use to measure parts died. The expensive, frightening one's headstock refused to engage. After three hours of fucking with it and using all the tricks I knew, it still wouldn't work. Hopefully someone can fix it without calling an actual Brown & Sharpe maintenance guy, because no one wants to be blamed for breaking the half-million dollar machine.

The less expensive, air driven model decided to let half of it's air hoses rupture over the weekend. So that's an easier fix, but still out of commission for a while.

What did all this mean? Measuring very heavy, very check intensive parts by hand, and a pretty shit night for me.

Hooray! -___-

Hopefully some of these things will have been resolved by the time I go in tonight.

/rant