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Yesterday was the 'big meeting' at work. After quiet, private conversations with my boss and -her- boss, I'd relaxed a little; neither of them seemed at all inclined to yank the A/V work away from me. I was still worried about being swatted for being so territorial about it, though; I'd not been sleeping at all in the days leading up to it. What I got wasn't even that. While teamwork was emphasized at several points, the major parts of the meeting were spent delineating exactly who has what responsibilities and which are beyond our bounds.
My esteemed coworker who'd been driving me utterly insane with his equipment shuffling and rewiring and 'fixing' things without telling me now understands that there's a line in the sand: troubleshoot this far, no farther. Which means I should no longer have to be dealing (often) with coming in in the morning and discovering that a room's been torn up while trying to get a client settled. And that's what the cold war was over in the first place, really. He views the client he's working with right then as the priority (often to the detriment of the rest of the facility), where I look at the overall view of keeping as much running as I possibly can: I'll only go so far with any given client as I refuse to excessively irritate the next. Imagine my surprise to discover that it wasn't ME that was micromanaging. :p
I also managed to shed a programming project that I'd tried to tackle. The net result was a spectacular failure, both in learning VB and in trying to simultaneously write a billing module in it. A case where my ambition proved to be my undoing, I was at least able to back away from it gracefully. I may take another stab at learning VB, but it'll be on my own time and terms.
Next week I sit down with the Director of A/V services and start hashing out the plans to upgrade and modernize the facility. He kicked some ideas into my corner that look -very- promising, and pointed out that my proposed stopgap measure would actually slow things down. No, speed is important here. I've got enough spare parts to keep things running (I think) until we can get the connection plates installed and the controller panels wired into the system. SP Controls manufactures the PixiePlus control module... once it's programmed then we can remove the projector remote controls from the rooms and everything will work in the same manner. The modules can be independently programmed so they can control whatever projector happens to be in that room, which allows the control interface to be uniform. Finally, a way to simplify things. And speakers mounted on the walls/ceiling where they belong, all the rat's nest of wiring bundled neatly and stowed out of site and @WHEEE. :)
Anyway, I do believe I've gotten to the 'babbling' stage of things, so I'm going to nip off for a nap.
And let's be careful out there. (/HSB)
My esteemed coworker who'd been driving me utterly insane with his equipment shuffling and rewiring and 'fixing' things without telling me now understands that there's a line in the sand: troubleshoot this far, no farther. Which means I should no longer have to be dealing (often) with coming in in the morning and discovering that a room's been torn up while trying to get a client settled. And that's what the cold war was over in the first place, really. He views the client he's working with right then as the priority (often to the detriment of the rest of the facility), where I look at the overall view of keeping as much running as I possibly can: I'll only go so far with any given client as I refuse to excessively irritate the next. Imagine my surprise to discover that it wasn't ME that was micromanaging. :p
I also managed to shed a programming project that I'd tried to tackle. The net result was a spectacular failure, both in learning VB and in trying to simultaneously write a billing module in it. A case where my ambition proved to be my undoing, I was at least able to back away from it gracefully. I may take another stab at learning VB, but it'll be on my own time and terms.
Next week I sit down with the Director of A/V services and start hashing out the plans to upgrade and modernize the facility. He kicked some ideas into my corner that look -very- promising, and pointed out that my proposed stopgap measure would actually slow things down. No, speed is important here. I've got enough spare parts to keep things running (I think) until we can get the connection plates installed and the controller panels wired into the system. SP Controls manufactures the PixiePlus control module... once it's programmed then we can remove the projector remote controls from the rooms and everything will work in the same manner. The modules can be independently programmed so they can control whatever projector happens to be in that room, which allows the control interface to be uniform. Finally, a way to simplify things. And speakers mounted on the walls/ceiling where they belong, all the rat's nest of wiring bundled neatly and stowed out of site and @WHEEE. :)
Anyway, I do believe I've gotten to the 'babbling' stage of things, so I'm going to nip off for a nap.
And let's be careful out there. (/HSB)
