Sierralima

Day off – kind of

I’m not going to work today. Or, at least, I’m not planning to. It is almost 2pm now and I’m still at home. I do plan to do work today, but only going through emails and trying to get organized and caught up with my tasks. I think I can do this because I spent all night last night updating our rig. We declared success shortly after 4am and went home.

I have been trying to keep organized by scheduling when I do certain things to maximize my time, however I have found that other people don’t keep to my schedule. Things like late nights at work trying to get things working, random meeting inside and outside of work, and getting called in to work on weekends tend to throw things into chaos. Such is my life I guess. I realized Sunday while I was at work that the ease of my job is primarily controlled by the decisions and mistakes of others (in two different countries, I might add). From the US side, we’ve had a few difficulties with getting the paperwork correct when shipping equipment, which causes me grief because it causes the customer grief. From this end, some design decisions made by for the airplane (in this case the test aircraft) will make it very difficult to troubleshoot problems.

I spoke at youth group again for the first time in about two months – since before my vacation. It went better than I expected – thanks to God. I would love to have more time to prepare, specifically the times of day when I can think properly. Much of the preparation this past week was done between 11pm and 1am.

So it sounds like I’m complaining a lot. I guess in some ways I am, but for the most part I really enjoy everything I do. Work gets frustrating frequently, but there are also frequent rewards for the work. I love the youth group and can’t imagine trading it for anything. We’ll see where God leads in my life as I plan to follow him always.

OK, so the emails from work have finished synchronizing, so I’d better go.