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Jul. 2nd, 2018 07:43 pmLet's see, what all. Last week was bike-to-work day, because bike-to-work day that everyone else in the US does, it's often snowing here, so they delay it a month so it can be 100F here. (It was in fact 104F at noon.) We had a great time anyway. We got one of our new employees to ride with us, and then we figured out how to change the fit on her bicycle so it's more comfortable. (I use that phrasing on purpose. Some enterprising previous owner had hacked the bike to make it difficult to steal the seat by putting a hose clamp around the seatpost binder bolt and then grinding the top off. I am more enterprising, though.) We're trying to talk her into coming out on lunchtime rides, as she has the aerobic capacity to do it: she thinks jogging up the mountains behind Boulder is "fun".
Half of Colorado is on fire. The air is a weird color. There is a chance I might have to go help evacuate my mom's and grandmother's houses in the mountains.
I tried casting again, over the weekend. This time I (by mistake) tried hot burnout of a mold: it hadn't been in the oven long enough so there was still some of the body of the 3d printed plastic buried inside the mold. It didn't work at ALL. The plastic burnt off and the gas from the expansion ruptured the bottom of the mold and blew little bits of liquid aluminum out of the top like a particularly hellish geysir.
Work today was unusually bad. The (very nice) systems engineer whose (foisted upon him two months ago) project releases this week is out on vacation this week, and I'm in large part his backup. My company has a labyrinthine, ever-changing set of release documentation, so trying to prepare everything before you leave never actually works, no matter how many people you ask. Today's mini calamity was the people responsible for auditing the documentation found that we hadn't put any of the hardware designs in the right location for them to audit. This happened because they changed the location where such things go: I had all the material in the place where it used to be required. The bad thing is it appeared that nobody had even done the work, and my "oh hey yes this is all done it's over THERE" is only apparent to the auditors, not to my irritated manager or my nice coworker's irritated manager. Tomorrow when I'm sure all the fires are out I'll write release email that will somehow mention that the work was done to the requirements we had, and hope the crabby manager committee will read it. (I used social engineering to already convey this to my coworker's manager, by asking him leading questions about the release process, but my manager has no idea what happened and my email gives him a headache. English is his fourth or fifth language and he has commented "I admire the depth of your clauses.")
Mostly I want to sleep, maybe once it gets below 90F inside.
Half of Colorado is on fire. The air is a weird color. There is a chance I might have to go help evacuate my mom's and grandmother's houses in the mountains.
I tried casting again, over the weekend. This time I (by mistake) tried hot burnout of a mold: it hadn't been in the oven long enough so there was still some of the body of the 3d printed plastic buried inside the mold. It didn't work at ALL. The plastic burnt off and the gas from the expansion ruptured the bottom of the mold and blew little bits of liquid aluminum out of the top like a particularly hellish geysir.
Work today was unusually bad. The (very nice) systems engineer whose (foisted upon him two months ago) project releases this week is out on vacation this week, and I'm in large part his backup. My company has a labyrinthine, ever-changing set of release documentation, so trying to prepare everything before you leave never actually works, no matter how many people you ask. Today's mini calamity was the people responsible for auditing the documentation found that we hadn't put any of the hardware designs in the right location for them to audit. This happened because they changed the location where such things go: I had all the material in the place where it used to be required. The bad thing is it appeared that nobody had even done the work, and my "oh hey yes this is all done it's over THERE" is only apparent to the auditors, not to my irritated manager or my nice coworker's irritated manager. Tomorrow when I'm sure all the fires are out I'll write release email that will somehow mention that the work was done to the requirements we had, and hope the crabby manager committee will read it. (I used social engineering to already convey this to my coworker's manager, by asking him leading questions about the release process, but my manager has no idea what happened and my email gives him a headache. English is his fourth or fifth language and he has commented "I admire the depth of your clauses.")
Mostly I want to sleep, maybe once it gets below 90F inside.
