One problem solved - more to come....ha ha ha ha

There is  this magnificent tree in our front yard that helped me find peace this morning.  It is a pine tree with long needles that were actively reaching out to the floating snowflakes and holding them captive.  The bunches of pine needles resembled fairy wings and each clump held its own snowflakes  in their own type of corral  in the morning breeze.  The snowflakes were just floating with the breeze and not particularly interested in finding their way to the earth.  The lawn was coated with snow when we woke up and the trees in front of our apartment as well as the trees in the woods looked very fragile with their slight dusting of snow.  Green and white is a clean and happy combination.

I contemplated the tree.  It is tall and strong and it is obedient to the laws that govern growth of trees.  It speaks peace to my soul when I spend enough time thinking about what this tree has to offer each and every one of us.  How old is this tree?  How many storms has it survived?  When has it had a real challenge to its life?  Have there been children in its branches?  Its serenity calmed me down because I am very worried about the impending visit of our supervisor. 

Instead of a personal visit, I spent the first 3 ½ hours on the phone and computer with him troubleshooting the problem that we have been having this past 3 weeks.  Discouraged just is not a strong enough word to describe our state of mind.  Try as we might, we could not alleviate the problem in the lower right hand corner of the double page capture.  We tried all kinds of tactics that I talked about in an earlier post and our final thrust was to find some shims and put them under the lower right hand corner in an effort to raise the pages to the glass and eliminate the blurring.  It seemed to help but then I have macular degeneration and most things look a little blurred anyway.  Finally we went through some steps to try to determine if it was operator error or if the camera was in error.  We had eliminated the cradle as the culprit, eliminated the focusing and whiteboard and LSI problem and the only thing left to suspect was the camera.  Well, to cut a long story short, and to stop me from running into the traffic screaming, a teleconference was set up with about 3 of the men in the FHC in Salt Lake City.  Finally we inspected the camera and I dislodged it from its perch above my head, and took it down and read the writing on the side of the camera.  One of the men had an Aha! Moment……………We are in possession of a microfilm camera not a digitizing camera.  So now we have to delete all work of the past 3 weeks and rework the lot.  Over 130 hours of work down the drain.  I want to ask which bonehead gave us the wrong camera and then blamed us for being lax with our work?