I Have No Clue What You're Saying

Today was a really loooong day for some reason.  5:45 couldn't come soon enough, and lucky for me just a little before 5:45 I found out we work tomorrow (Saturday) too.  Oh well, I'll save my town-exploring for Sunday I guess.

Today I learned how to operate a machine called a "spacer."  You put a roll of something on one end, and it winds through and comes out the other end, just like all of our other machines.  I think  it does something, too, but mostly the winding.  But it does have this control panel, if you need an idea of what this machine could do.

Now, I know what you're thinking.  And what you're thinking is correct: EPC does stand for Edge Position Control.

Actually, the spacer machine itself looks like this.  Well, this is the winding end.  That black tube on the white roller is NOT what we wound today, even though it looks like machine-precision winding.

Really, not much else happened today.  It was a long day of grueling work with The Guy With The Teeth, and in the end I didn't even get to bring home a tooth.  Today was his last day, too.  Oh here's an interesting story: our boss watches us from headquarters on video cameras.  Headquarters are located about 700 miles away.  But you know when he's watching because the cameras start swiveling and "looking around" the work area, and then invariably the phone rings and the president is on the horn asking what the heck everybody is doing and giving "advice."

Similarly, The Guy With The Teeth said that when he's inside our work facility, his cell phone GPS signal doesn't go through, but as soon as he steps outside for a smoke break, his GPS shows up and his boss calls him almost immediately almost every time.  He thinks his boss is monitoring him via GPS.  So now I'm paranoid, like what conversations/emails/facebook posts/blogs are my boss reading?  Does he have a microphone in my car?  Is this computer that the company bought me bugged so that he knows my every key stroke?  Oh hang on, the phone's ringing.  brb