It shouldn't have happened this way. But somehow I just knew it would cause the universe enjoys irony. Do you remember my new machine? The machine (actual machine not pictured) that I spent a good deal of our limited operating budget on and that was buying it used (and going up to Canada to get it). As I think I may have mentioned, the machine is formulated to work one but and while similar to how i needed it, was not quite the way I envisioned it working for my company's purposes. Yet I got a bee in my bonnet, found a used one nearby, and went and put down cold hard cash for it not being 100% sure it would work as I needed.
And then I proceeded to spend the next several months trying, retrying, retrying, retrying it to no avail. I knew the machine was working properly but I just couldn't get my product reformulated in a way that worked for the machine. Needless to say I was frustrated. Then I broke my leg and we simultanious entered the crazy holiday buying season so the machine has been sitting on the shelf just waiting.
Yet I knew if I was going to seriously talk to BIG company I needed to get the machine working properly so today, after months of being on the shelf, I pulled it off and decided to try again. There's no reason why today should have been any different then any of the other days I tried previously but for some reason it was and I actually got the formulation right. It worked! And it worked well! I can't tell you how excited I am. Now I can confidently call BIG company tomorrow and know that I'm not promising them something I can't actually deliver. This machine can also be used on some of the other new products I was thinking of introducing next year which will speed up production time indefinitely so hopefully we won't be caught behind the 8-ball like we were this year.
HOORAY!!!
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