Cosmic Connecting

Not the Van I was In Yesterday - But it Felt Like It

Yesterday was the begrudging return to work after a long, holiday weekend filled with family, friends, and fun.  There was no way work was going to compete with the weekend and it certainly didn’t.  On the up side I was extremely busy and had to juggle three different projects that all had to be done yesterday.  It had the effect of making the day fly by which is the best thing that could happen on a return to work Monday.

The biggest project was riding around in a technologically advanced van “shooting” grid coordinates for some new bus routes that will start in January.  All of our buses are equipped with global positioning technology that allows people to track the buses over the internet.  The first step in to insure the routes are plotted with GPS coordinates which was what was happening yesterday.

Since I designed the routes I had to be in the van spotting the bus stops for the technology folks.  If you ever ridden behind a vehicle that has one of those,” This vehicle makes frequent stops” logos and been frustrated by waiting, well that was me yesterday.  We had to stop every 100 yards or so and wait for the van to acquire sufficient satellites to pinpoint the coordinates.  This led to many of the always friendly Worcester drivers stuck behind us to angrily pass by and proclaim that we were “Number 1”.

In between my extended van riding connecting to the cosmos I had to insure all the new routing was entered into our scheduling software which was about as much fun as some of the rivers had stuck behind us yesterday.  The software is Canadian based and about as intuitive as a troglodyte on mind altering chemicals.  I think they designed it so you had to keep coming back to them to explain why the simplest of tasks require seven separate steps.  

Monday was certainly Monday.