Living with MCL

As Roseanne Roseannadanna, often quoting an older relative would say, “It just goes to show ya…it’s always something! If it’s not one thing, it’s another!”

Well, as you know from my last post, my company and I both dodged a bullet, by not having our AS9100 audit observed by the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board, but now something else has come up which may even be more difficult to navigate.

A good friends son died on Friday. It wasn’t totally unexpected, as he had not been doing well for the past year or two. But that’s not really the point. The point is they are having a Celebration of Life memorial for him on Wednesday, August 2, at 1 PM. That is the day of the AS9100 audit.

For most poeple that wouldn’t seem to be such a big deal, i.e. take a couple of hours off work, go to the memorial and be back in time to finish with the audit, but in my case it isn’t quite that simple.

First off, I work 78 miles (minimum 1.5 hour commute with no traffic) from where I live, and even further from where the memorial will be held. Secondly, I am typically off on Wednesday, so how would it look, the one day I have to work, a close friend is having a memorial for his son. That could look pretty tacky of me in some peoples eyes, especially since there are a few people coming down from San Francisco, who I sort of slighted on their last visit, and I’d prefer not to do that again.

So what do I do? Currently I have an email into the auditor to see if there is anything we can do to condense the audit, i.e. start Monday evening and work late finishing the audit up on Tuesday, or try and finish it up by 10 AM Wednesday, which will give me time to make it to the memorial.

Hopefully it won’t be a problem, as the auditor is pretty accomodating, but it is short notice, and if the audit doesn’t go well, well………

So here I am, still hoping a live a charmed life, and everything will work out fine. Only time will tell.

Well three week off work, as a result of our annual maintenance shut down, is over, and even though I had to come in to work a couple of days to get ready for our AS9100 audit, coming back to work after being off for so long is really difficult.

If only the weather had been a little cooler, I might have enjoyed the time off. But with temperatures reaching into the high 90′s°F, and humidity greater then 80%, going outside has essentially been unbearable.

Even golfing is unenjoyable. The heat and humidity just seem to suck the life out of you. Yesterday, Edie and I went out around 2:30 in the afternoon to play a round, hoping to get in 18 holes. Everything was fine for about 5 holes, at which point, I could no longer swing the club. My rhythm and tempo were gone, and it was like I forgot how to play. We quit after 9 holes, got some Chinese take out, opened a bottle of wine, and sat in front of the wide screen TV, savoring the comfort of our air conditioned house. It was lovely.

But what has been bugging me so much lately, is I don’t know how much of this lackadaisical feeling I have been experiencing lately is due to the weather or my MCL.

I certainly hope it is the weather, but until this heat spell ends, I am not going to know, and I doubt that I will get out of this stupor of not wanting to do much of anything.

I love California because this kind of weather doesn’t occur, except for maybe one or two weeks during August and September, and if July has been this hot, I can’t even imagine what August and September will be like.