taco's & toucan's travels ~ 2019

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DAY 11

Week 2

BOISE (Idaho, USA)

Monday March 25^th, 2019

TODAYS MILEAGE – 64 miles / 103 kilometres

TRIP MILEAGE – 11,656 miles / 18,756 kilometres

I figured today would be a great day to do some laundry, track down some documentation and to complete a final gear check on all my equipment.

Glad I did do the checks as somehow after my camera body was serviced by Archinal Camera Repair Inc, the recording settings were set to the default OEM settings. All images were going to the CF Card in JPEG format, instead of the CFast Card in RAW format.

This is a huge catch on my part, as the quality difference between the formats is literally worlds apart.

The other issue is that with having the different formats going to separate cards, if one card should fail - I haven’t lost all the images from that day, as I generally move the images to my laptop and a portable hard drive at the end of the day.

Most of my morning was spent with the staff of Ada County in trying to resolve the documentation SNAFU, that has piqued the interest of US immigration. As the matter was dismissed in 2001, the comment was made that “there’s no conviction and the case was dismissed, so why are they worried about it?” I’m thinking to myself that it’s because someone in your outfit didn't finalise the paperwork correctly for a second time.

Lunch today was out at my former employers – Micron Technology Inc, Building 17c cafeteria where we ran into a few of my former colleagues, as well as a couple of mates I hadn't seen in a long while like Jaz Zorich and Paul "Sleazy" Ryder.

Jethro - Tom Bithell, Father O - David Leary and myself then went on a wander around the areas I supported during my tenure like Assembly, Fab 1, Fab 3, Fab C, Fab 4, SpecTeck & Facilities. I was somewhat intrigued to see both 15T and the “Onions” still being used, even though they were temporary buildings installed in 1997.

At the end if the walk, I commented that as much as the place had changed, the more it had remained the same. While I’m forever grateful to Micron for the opportunity and start in my IT career, I don’t see myself ever wanting to work for such a large operation again, as you feel like just a number and are perceived to have no direct contribution to the enterprise as a whole.

From there it was back to the Ada County courthouse to check on the recovery of the hearing rulings and then over to my host Jax's office, to resolve some network printer issues.

The evening was spent at another Ruth’s place, this one’s my favourite 'Human Wreckage' operator (as in she’s a Senior HR professional) and my former roommate Chris, Heather and their two kids.

With one day left before heading off to Mexico, my week in Boise has felt a bit like a roll of toilet paper, in that the closer its got to the end - the quicker it's gone.