Bear with me as I try to recreate my post composed yesterday, but daftly lost by yours truely.
Yesterday I reflected on Christmas, both as a day and as a season.  I think that on the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord made me all introspective.  It made me ask questions like "why do we celebrate Jesus' baptism on the day we used to celebrate His ( Read more... )

I haven't seen the sun since Sunday. . . 
Apart from dreary weather, life is pretty good.  Thanksgiving break was exciting - five days (-1 for dress shopping) of
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I'm sitting at work.  It is the day before Thanksgiving break.  In the past few weeks, every single one of my projects has come due and come to pound me a little every day, all while new and exciting projects are springing up at intervals, while the phone is ringing but not from suppliers with the parts I ordered months ago but rather with project ( Read more... )

I realize it is about time for my monthly lj update. . .
I actually have an excuse though for not updating lately.  When I first moved in, I had free wireless internet provided by a charitable (or naive) neighbor.  However, in the last few weeks that free internet connection is gone.  I now have no internet at home.  No internet, no phone, no TV, no ( Read more... )

Thanks to the help of friends and family (thanks
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Well, after the 6 weeks of stressing out and calculating budgets and examining finances, the day arrived.  Today I purchased a home ( Read more... )

So last Tuesday (over a week ago now) I was sitting in my boss's cube, and the engine performance group's boss comes to my boss (the engine design and analysis group boss) and says,
He says "can I have an engineer to send down to Houston later this week to run tests on the boat?" 
My boss replies to this something along the lines of "I was thinking ( Read more... )

So the past week in my job I found myself more and more running around with giant pieces of paper, taking stuff down to purchasing or over to drafting, etc.  I was doing a tolerance stackup analysis, and I sent a print job to the plotter.  When I got over there, it was busy spitting out a piece of paper 36" wide by about 12 ' long.  Thats a big ( Read more... )

It was a good kind of week at work - the kind where I mostly knew exactly what I had to do, and was able to just sit down and do it.  Sadly, it was mostly computer work.  But I more than made up for that with my personal persuits of the evening - I changed the oil in my car for the first time.  I realize that there are not many gear heads that read ( Read more... )