Well i haven't posted anything at all for a while. I guess to be honest i had lost a little bit of interest in blogging or i just didn't have the time.
But anyway, i thought i would share another little simple lesson in life that im sure you have all come across at some point or other yourselves. Something isn't finished until you have seen it completed with your own eyes.
I was on holiday last week with wonderful weather, but the week before that i went to visit a site where we are currently working to help out for a couple of days whilst some of our engineers were testing the system. I used to work on that particular project so i have a vested interest in seeing it working correctly as most of the software running the system is mine, not all but the majority!!
It was an enjoyable couple of days for me because after 3 long years of drawings, design work, design issues, writing software and testing we have finally got to the point where it is all coming together. Thanks largely to the group of very well educated and hard working engineers configuring and testing the system on site.
Personally for me its a highlight i guess in a career by working on such a prestigous project. I can't name specifics of the project itself in terms of the technology but i can say the project is a road tunnel system for a goverment agency that will be the longest non esturial road tunnel in the UK when its open in a couple of months.
I hope it will all go smoothly for what left to do of course and soon we will start another project, although i have to say hopefully not a 3 year one! Its a long time to spend on one thing, but i have enjoyed it still and it was always challenging.
I just hope that the system will serve its new owners for many years to come without issue......Otherwise i may need to get a one way flight to the North pole...
:-)
What an achievement! you know it always astounds me how these great wonderous bridges,tunnels, roads etc come about,someone has to have done all the numbers..I think this is a wonderous thing you can tell your family about as they grow..we live in a tiny little town in the Hunter Valley in Australia an unasuming little place,yet up on the man hill lives a wonderful man Dan and he goes to China for months at a time, he is an engineer and is building bridges way up in the hills,how amazing I think that hardly anyone knows what he does just that he comes home for a few weeks and then is off again working somewhere...lol I have the privelidge as his parcel lady to have very interesting chats with him when he is home and of course we alays keep our eye on his wife to make sure she is fine...like I say wonderful that people like you are in this worls if it were left to minds like mine we would be walking on patchwork roads and crochet bridges and tunnels! well done..
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