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30 Jul |
It just goes to show ya…it’s always something! Life
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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.
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28 Jul |
I live a charmed life! Sorta Life
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For the past month, I have been dreading my companies upcoming AS9100 audit, August 1st and 2nd. I’ve been dreading it because not only are we being audited, but our auditor was going to be audited, at the same time, by the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB). That would have made for a very hard nosed, formal audit.
Well I just got word today from our auditor, that the ANAB auditors that were coming, are needed elsewhere, and they won’t be coming after all.
Hallelujah!!!!! Life just got a whole lot simpler. 
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27 Jul |
The Tour d’France – Part IV Off Topic
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I never thought I’d be writing Part IV to the Tour d’France, but here we are, 4 days after Floyd Landis overcomes, what many would consider, an insurmountable deficit to win the Tour d’France, he fails a drug test, performed immediately after that super human effort.
What more can go wrong for this venerable race? Three weeks after the two favorites, Ivan Basso and Jan Ullrich, are barred from participating in the race, simply for being associated with an unscrupulous doctor, the ultimate winner fails a drug test.
And now what might have been considered one of the greatest comebacks of all time, will forever be marred by the accusation, even if Landis is ultimately exonerated, as most knowledgeable people concerned with drugs in sport believe he will be.
The damage has already been done, and it is not good for the sport. 
