Ahh, back from vacation and what is my thanks? That's right, the 4-12 shift. With only four people working in the PIT, one of whom is the boss (so he's not going to work the late shift!) we don't have a lot of man hours to provide to the mission.

There is ALWAYS more testing. So it comes down to prioritizing, and quite often that means two shifts are required. The only fair way to assign which engineer gets it is to rotate. This week, I get to monitor MECA testing. It's pretty boring really, the MECA teams tells me which sequence to run, I run it, and give them the results when the test is done. Things get interesting only when things go wrong.

Which they do. So boring is good. It gives me time to catch up on my correspondence.

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