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Shocked and Shaken

Things to do with Saturday Mornings

Inplace of my "What I did this weekend" post whihc seems to have been started an not finished, here instead is a "What I did this saturday morning" post instead.

I started with getting up. Nothing unusual here, I cannot differentitate between weekday and weekendday as it is, so i never manage to wake up in the afternoon. The problem was that I woke up at 0530, having gone to sleep at after 0230. Ouch. It hurt, but thats what happens when you abuse your body. I managed to gather my things, pack into my rucksac and leave Ant’s house, only to realise that I didnt have the map of where I was going. Damn. So Ant got woken up (again) to bring it down to the street. Thanks bro….

The tube journey was alright, although slow with a lot more waiting time than i had expected. almost 15 minutes between trains at victoria. At victoria I did however manage to get a bottle of coke, and so the twin needs of liquid and sugar could start to be attended to. I felt somewhat better by the time I reached Tottenham Hale, despite the fact tht I missed the train I wanted by 1 minute or so.

As a reward for missing my train, the coffee shop at Tottenham hale then opened up. Mmmmmm Coffee. Generally I hate it, but on this occasion three major food groups were satisfied, liquid, sugar, and caffine. I felt almost human by the time that I had alighted from the train at Brimsdown, and wandered the few hundred yards to my destination. Continuing in the ups and downs of the morning, I proceeded to get straight past security, for once i signed in, and he let me onto site, without the usual language barrier, and confusion on his part. Not the normal guard I end up meeting….

My work actually went quite well (with the exception of my not having with me some of the pin outs that I needed for hooking up one item to another, resulting in a quick spot of redesign on my part.) I had to use lan b) when it came to getting two cables through a solid piece of metal, but i think we tried plan a) for long enough, and b) was not that much more hassel. AT least next week we know exactly what we are doign now.

The only failiure currently is that I guessed a sensitivity setting wrongly on one sensor, so I get a week of garbage readings. I will be able to hang around next week until the machine goes into production to do a spot of calibration however….. lucky me.

Overall, this is the kind of reason why I do this stuff. A sense of achievement. Oh, and the point of the title of this post? well, I was shaken by the lack of sleep, the shocking was for similar reasons to gary….

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