Carpy Carpy day

If today gets much worse, I'm going home ....

Looked at my 2007 work goals this morning...

- One is my own, dependant on a global team I lead, and their activities. I've got the team doing a lot of other things, so I took this goal myself, and I'm working on preparation stuff to present to them so we can make an educated decision on it.. Progress? Probably 50%

- Another one, I thought the production folks were going to make system modifications earlier this year, so I set the goal to finish lab stuff based on the modifications. The mod... didn't happen. Apparently I didn't "grease the wheel" enough, because they had a chance to do it, and just didn't bother. Progress? 0%

- One was from last year, dependant on some procedures making it to "official". Well, the drafts are still out there, waiting someone else's work... Until the procedures are approved, I can't move forward with training.. progress 45%

- Another is dependant on getting a vendor on the worksite to work on some equipment. Apparently they just won't fill out their security paperwork, which hasn't been completed for about four years now. Since I can't get anybody to find out why they won't fill it out in the contract group, I have to pester & nag... I'm also trying to get new equipment instead of servicing the old junk we have. Progress.... 30%

- One was making real progress, until a safety audit yielded new equipment idle... safety folks say "the robot could hurt someone.. you can't use it without a box around it"... until we get the box, or convince everyone we don't need it, I can't do diddly.. Progress? 40%

It's a carpy day.. I don't feel like I"m getting squat done. Stuff I said I'd do, I'm not doing. Stuff I knew I had to do also, I've been working on, and so I feel like I've only made progress on stuff nobody knows about unless they ask...

HMPH.. I'm gonna get more coffee & pout more..