Just random thoughts

In Sam's words "Mac when did you become so philosophical!?!?" Why the fuck have I become so philosophical nowadays? Why am I taking life so seriously? The other day I was walking back to my place from my work / internship. Ok, Firstly the background, my internship is in a research institute where I will have to "design" (hahahahhahahaha) a self centering system for a CNC machine. This involves interfacing a laser sensor and an actuator. As boring as it may seem, it is made worse by the fact that nowadays weather here is awesome and it is hard to sit inside 4 walls. And also since I invented procrastination, all I do is browse the net, chat with people (damn windows messenger and google mail talk!!), day dream or drink coffee. So all this idleness coupled with caffeine from 4 cups of coffee has kind of scrambled my brains. Hence I tend to do "out of the box" thinking, or so it seems. Yeah, while walking back from Fraunhofer Institut I started thinking generally about the reasons behind this whole engineering charade of mine. Who would be so anal to worry about the offset of a workpiece and a chuck by 1 micron? Am I the right person to be so fucked in the head to think about such details? Do I need really need this? Am I a real engineer?