I totally struck out with my Liturgy of the Hours iPod routine today. I somehow entirely missed morning prayer, and evening prayer was truncated to 2 minutes. Happy Feast of the Chair of Peter ( Read more... )

I was working for less than five minutes today when my boss came up and said "Walk with me."
It turns out one of our test engines had died over the weekend with the same failure mode that it is my primary task to eliminate. Yeah! Now we get more data with which to form theories (and just generally making stuff up).  It was a very busy day.  I ( Read more... )

It was -6 °F when I woke up this morning (453.67 °R for you who like to use funny unit systems). I think I stirred right as my special friend who sleeps with me on weekends was getting up.  The sun was shinning in my window, which is a nice change from getting up for work.  There was ice on my window, which I took some pictures of, which I'll post ( Read more... )

After a slightly late departure from Chruch (the Pastor is back from vacation, so we were having a "thank you party" for Fr. John whom had been saying the 6 AM Mass for the whole month) I arrived to work just on time.  Just in time for cube cleaning day!  I went through all the software manuals that the engineer who possessed my cube before me had ( Read more... )

So Thursdays at work are the many boring meeting day, in general.  Today was no exception - one meeting was canceled, but another was scheduled, so in the end, I didn't get much crossed off my to do list.  The new meeting was an introduction to MATLAB, during which I gave a 5 minute introduction to Simulink.  Some of the engineers later made ( Read more... )

So a couple of weird things just happened that are entirely out of the ordinary in my life.  In general, I never make international phone calls.  But it is enigma5312's birthday (Happy Birthday!), and she isn't so easy to get a hold of.  It was very nice to hear her voice.  And by very nice, I mean like, new echlons of joy nice.  The weird thing though, was ( Read more... )

So my sister calls me up while I'm driving home, needing help with her calculus homework. I realize that it is difficult to explain the basic concepts of calculus while using only the language of calculus ( Read more... )

Today marks the first day of my fifth week as a "working man." One month has gone by since I started my new job. I won't say that it was fast or slow, it just was, in a good way; in the best of ways. It feels like I am where I ought to be. I say this mostly from the kick of grace I get most mornings at 4:50 when I wake up. I feel like I fit ( Read more... )