>> I guess some of the fun stuff is when I get to get out of the office.
I mean I like-- I like the nice environment, it's pretty static, a lot of friendly faces
in the office environment and that's fine, but like today I was
out before I came here we had some commissioning work in the field, so sometimes I get
to be hands on with the equipment, sometimes I get to you know be a part of it when we go
and put a new piece of equipment in service.
We deal with all of our different components of what we call checking it out,
which basically means just setting up the communications,
making sure it's doing what it's supposed to do,
and then turning it loose to do its-- to do its job.
So anytime I can get into the field and get my hands on it a little bit I don't think I'd want
to do that every day but it's nice to be able to dabble in that and get a change of scenery.
So some of the things that we look at; safety is king.
So when we talk about safety that is the safety on the part of our people,
safety on the part of the public.
You know, often times the devices that I set up are protecting against a number
of different things including, you know, somebody hits a pole and a line hits the ground
and now we have a potential where somebody could come in contact with that,
so the devices that I set up have to protect from that sort of scenario.
So we always, you know, look at it from the perspective of that being the absolute upmost
and then sometimes if you have to give up other things
like maybe certain devices won't coordinate just like you want them to,
things like that become frustrating.
You like to have it all but it never works that way.