The Iggblog

So the acoustic microscope at work b0rk’d onwednesday while I was working on it. we were having a problem with one of the operational modes, and they sent us a couple replacement parts to try and fix the problem. A big computer board and one sort of little scanner assembly. I go at it and replace the big board… no dice, still not working quite right. Next I replace that little assembly… score. it works perfectly now. So the boss asks me to put back in the old computer board since it wasn’t the problem. At that point I must have touched something jsut the wrong way, becuase the machine pretty much crashed when I turned it back on.

I have no training working on this thing. It’s far mroe exotic than anything computer based that I’ve worked on before. All the boards in it are hand built in-house at the main office in Chicago, so it’s not like I can call up Belkin and ask how to fix it. I hacked away at it all wedensday and thursday… getting very frustrated all the while. I had a good idea of what was wrong at that point. all the things that weren’t working could be traced to one of the boards in my opinion. so they decided to ship out a bunch of random boards for me to swap out to try and fix the problem. I say “hey, send me one of these boards too.. I think that’s the problem.” they tell em they really don’t think so but they’ll send it anyways.

the boards got here this morning, and I had the machine up in a matter of minutes. it was the one board I had suspected had failed. I win. me > them. normally I would have played this out all day to get in some quality slacking time, but I had to gloat as quickly as possible. Everyone’s allowed occasional gloating. I earned it with the week I’ve been having.

so that’s my story. Sorry there were no naked wimmen. I’ll work on that one.