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you might be an engineer if…

• you spent 10x longer planning to do something than actually do it
• You have ever used more than 3 acronyms in a row
• you have ever parked in section 256 and your first thought was, “Well it will be easy to remember since it is a power of 2.”
• you have ever found yourself needing more than 2 power strips in your cube.
• you have ever thought the words “a nice cube” and you weren’t commenting on someone’s 3D drawing skills.
• you have ever asked someone where you can find some documentation only to be told that you get to write it.
• you have ever bought something that didn’t work they way you thought it should, and found your mentally filling in the UML Use Cases for the stuff the designers forgot.
• you have any clue what that last statement means.

ahh a good day

day was a good day. A certain football team did very well, and I got to watch the game in High Definition (thanks Tony). If you have yet to experience watching a game, or any show for that matter, in high def then you are missing out big time. For the second quarter of the game, the HD channel when out and we had to switch to watching it on normal TV resolution and it felt like I had been drugged, knocked over the head, and had my contacts removed forcably.

Yes it was that painful to watch the normal version. Honestly I spent the first several minutes just being amazed at the fact that I could see the metallic chips in the Florida State helmets, and the stitches in uniforms. If you are getting a new TV anytime in the near future, I demand that you get high def. It is the way of the future. You will not regret it.

In completely unrelated news, have you been keeping up? After the game I went out and had the picture taking time around my neighborhood. That same adventure was responsible for the picture you see in the previous post.

the best picture I have taken all day

its beginning to look at lot like summer

It is participation time now. Go find a calender, or sense you are on a computer you can just go to your tool bar. Check out what day it is. Make doubly sure that it is the beginning of November. Now tell me why in the world it appears to be Christmas already.

November 1st I walked into a Wendy’s that was playing Christmas music. There is a Christmas tree in the main lobby of my office building. I have seen no less than 3 Christmas shopping guides popping up here and there. Any Thanksgiving is still over two weeks away. When will it ever end (or rather, begin) (or maybe it is end to begin before it began before) (did you get that?)?

/end rant

So I realize I have not been here for awhile. I have been doing other things: like meeting people, buying used furniture, going to work, and building large wooden frames in my living room. Speaking of working, today marks three months in a real job. That is both 1/4 of a year and approx. 1/100 of my entire life, which I have spent in a real full time job.