I found a dollar outside my cube today, and instead of keeping it, Neil guilted me into sending an email out to see if anyone lost any money. Here is the email. Here are the responses.
"if you dropped some money near my cube, and you know how much it was, come tell me and I'll return it. If you just heard me yell it out, you are disqualified ;-)
oh yeah, you only get one guess... "
$100.
-Todd
$20
-David
Uh-- $10.25
Do I get it?
-Charlie
ahhh, $2,145.67???
-Dennis
A $10 and a $5. . .but not a new 10.
-Trent
$52,391.33
520 Hundreds
19 Twenties
2 Fives
5 Quarters
1 Nickel
3 Pennies
By the way, after I have it back, lunch is on me!
-Antony
$1??
-Neil
One million dollars plus or minus one million dollars.
-Barry
Monday, July 31, 2006
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Surprise!! Welcome Home!
I went home last night after a long week in Augusta, and was there to greet Moshe when he returned from the airport from Spain. Acting all nonchalant, I invited him over with the rest of my family to "see my house" on Saturday night at 7:45ish. I invited all his friends over at 7/7:30 to come, and we threw a surprise party. It was great. Everyone came, no one got lost, and Moshe was totally surprised. I will post pictures on my website hopefully tomorrow, but here is one to whet your appetite.
Sunday, July 23, 2006
ClotheSwap
Today I had a party at my house, invited a bunch of girls, and told everyone to bring anything they had not worn in a year. I had about two trash bags, a few people had the same, a few people had none, and Jen cleared out her house and brought like 7! it was great!! there was all sorts of stuff from everyone, and once everyone had arrived, it was a free for all. the rooms were divided like this: Shirts (seperated into tees, tanks, and everything else) , Skirts & Dresses, Pants & Shorts, Accessories, Shoes, Sweaters. Attached are pictures of people wearing and/or holding things they picked up during the party. Even after everyone took home a bag of "new" clothes, I still have 13 bags in my garage that I have to go and donate. Wow. good job girls! way to make room for new stuff! =)
Unwelcome visitors
I rarely see live bugs in my house. Unfortunately, somehow I have an infestation of dead ones, especially now, during the summer. I am not sure where they come in from, but the lower level entryway and the storage room always has a random beetle or bug or roach, with their legs facing heaven.
Well, every couple days, I sweep away a few, throw them away, and move on. Well, I was gone this past week, and rarely sweep the storage basement. So tonight I decided that while I was getting some laundry done, I'd sweep up the recently disceased.
It was disgusting. The following picture is not for the weak stomached, so do not scroll down if you don't want to see what I swept up. You can see there was almost no dust on the floor of my whole basement. But there were over 40 bugs. I get a little jittery thinking about the instance when I heard a crunch under my shoe, and realized I'd hit number 41.
Click the picture to see the details of the bugs...up close and personal.
Well, every couple days, I sweep away a few, throw them away, and move on. Well, I was gone this past week, and rarely sweep the storage basement. So tonight I decided that while I was getting some laundry done, I'd sweep up the recently disceased.
It was disgusting. The following picture is not for the weak stomached, so do not scroll down if you don't want to see what I swept up. You can see there was almost no dust on the floor of my whole basement. But there were over 40 bugs. I get a little jittery thinking about the instance when I heard a crunch under my shoe, and realized I'd hit number 41.
Click the picture to see the details of the bugs...up close and personal.
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Here goes...
I need to carry around a notebook in my pocket when I'm not around a computer, because 5-6 times this week, I thought of something funny I wanted to blog about, and of course, can't remember it now.
Monday I went back to Beech Island (which, if you missed it, is not a beach, or an island) to go to some meetings at the plant. I came home tuesday evening and went into work wednesday in Atlanta. Wednesday afternoon I find out they need me back at the plant at 7 am thursday, so I'd have to go that night. However, I already had plans, so I didn't leave to drive to Beech until 11:30 or so, arriving around 2. man, was I tired the next day, working in the heat there. Friday I'm informed that they'll need me back next week, so any plans I had for next week are shot, and I have to head back to the plant Sunday night to be there for a 7 am meeting Monday. I told them if nothing else, I had to be out of there by 3 on friday so I could make it back to Atlanta by dinner time since my brother was coming back in town that day.
sigh. At least it isn't too bad for travel time. I am there in under 2.5 hours, and I don't have to fly. Flying requires packing neatly, parking at the airport, taking a shuttle, stripping at security, waiting, flying, waiting, renting a car, etc. etc.
I am going to enjoy my day and a half of weekend.
Monday I went back to Beech Island (which, if you missed it, is not a beach, or an island) to go to some meetings at the plant. I came home tuesday evening and went into work wednesday in Atlanta. Wednesday afternoon I find out they need me back at the plant at 7 am thursday, so I'd have to go that night. However, I already had plans, so I didn't leave to drive to Beech until 11:30 or so, arriving around 2. man, was I tired the next day, working in the heat there. Friday I'm informed that they'll need me back next week, so any plans I had for next week are shot, and I have to head back to the plant Sunday night to be there for a 7 am meeting Monday. I told them if nothing else, I had to be out of there by 3 on friday so I could make it back to Atlanta by dinner time since my brother was coming back in town that day.
sigh. At least it isn't too bad for travel time. I am there in under 2.5 hours, and I don't have to fly. Flying requires packing neatly, parking at the airport, taking a shuttle, stripping at security, waiting, flying, waiting, renting a car, etc. etc.
I am going to enjoy my day and a half of weekend.
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Called out as a Nerd.
Another week passed, and just a few stories to laugh about.
I was at work the other day, and keep in mind that I work at an Engineering firm, where over 50% of the employees graduated from Georgia Tech, and the rest are no less "technically inclined". I was in the office of one of the project managers, who I've worked with a bit, and we started talking and I said something that I guess he thought was more nerdy than expected, and he says "well no wonder you were an engineering major! You are a nerd!" when you get called out as a nerd in a company like mine, you know that maybe you truly are a bigger nerd than you thought!
Yesterday, we were sitting in on a meeting trying to solve a transportation problem for one of our customers, and during the meeting I kept throwing out different alternative solutions, since we couldn't seem to find one that worked. This morning, the senior designer/CAD supervisor AKA the person who does this all the time stopped by my office and said he was really impressed with my ideas yesterday. That made my day.
Story #3
When I went to the plant this tuesday, I was wearing a pair of lace-up sketchers that I've actually had since the 11th grade (9 years ago), and are the most comfortable shoes I own. They look like crap, but at a plant, everyone's shoes do, so I didn't mind wearing them. As I am walking into the plant for the day's meeting, I hear a "flip flop" sound. I look down, and the entire sole of one shoe has come off, other than right by the ball of the foot where it's still glued. well, the only other shoes I had brought on this trip were my sneakers, and you can't wear those in the plant, so I had to Mcgeiver it. I took the shoelaces out and relaced the shoes to have enough string remaining to tie it around the sole of the shoe. Though I had to retie it about 10 times that day, I don't think anyone (at least, anyone significant) noticed my little shoe problem. I will post a picture of my shoe later =)
I was at work the other day, and keep in mind that I work at an Engineering firm, where over 50% of the employees graduated from Georgia Tech, and the rest are no less "technically inclined". I was in the office of one of the project managers, who I've worked with a bit, and we started talking and I said something that I guess he thought was more nerdy than expected, and he says "well no wonder you were an engineering major! You are a nerd!" when you get called out as a nerd in a company like mine, you know that maybe you truly are a bigger nerd than you thought!
Yesterday, we were sitting in on a meeting trying to solve a transportation problem for one of our customers, and during the meeting I kept throwing out different alternative solutions, since we couldn't seem to find one that worked. This morning, the senior designer/CAD supervisor AKA the person who does this all the time stopped by my office and said he was really impressed with my ideas yesterday. That made my day.
Story #3
When I went to the plant this tuesday, I was wearing a pair of lace-up sketchers that I've actually had since the 11th grade (9 years ago), and are the most comfortable shoes I own. They look like crap, but at a plant, everyone's shoes do, so I didn't mind wearing them. As I am walking into the plant for the day's meeting, I hear a "flip flop" sound. I look down, and the entire sole of one shoe has come off, other than right by the ball of the foot where it's still glued. well, the only other shoes I had brought on this trip were my sneakers, and you can't wear those in the plant, so I had to Mcgeiver it. I took the shoelaces out and relaced the shoes to have enough string remaining to tie it around the sole of the shoe. Though I had to retie it about 10 times that day, I don't think anyone (at least, anyone significant) noticed my little shoe problem. I will post a picture of my shoe later =)
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Why learn how to type?
People who watch me type make fun of me because I use 4 fingers to type. I went to this webpage today:
http://labs.jphantom.com/wpm/
and tested my typing sills. I did the test 5 times, each with a different paragraph, and consistently typed 78-84 words per minute. I had between 2-7 mistakes each time, but you are not "done" until you've corrected those mistakes, so the more mistakes you make, the longer it takes. Try it out! oh, and just as a hint, they only use one space after a period, not two.
So, I think I am OK to type how I type. lay off =)
http://labs.jphantom.com/wpm/
and tested my typing sills. I did the test 5 times, each with a different paragraph, and consistently typed 78-84 words per minute. I had between 2-7 mistakes each time, but you are not "done" until you've corrected those mistakes, so the more mistakes you make, the longer it takes. Try it out! oh, and just as a hint, they only use one space after a period, not two.
So, I think I am OK to type how I type. lay off =)
Why do I run?
people ask me sometimes why I run, or why I work out a lot.
Besides the given "it feels good" or "it's healthy", the real reason I work out is so I can eat lots and lots of candy.
I love sweets, so my options are
a) eat fewer sweets because they're not healthy
or
b) eat just as many sweets, but work them off
I totally choose b.
Now, where did I put my milkshake and chocolate bar?...
Besides the given "it feels good" or "it's healthy", the real reason I work out is so I can eat lots and lots of candy.
I love sweets, so my options are
a) eat fewer sweets because they're not healthy
or
b) eat just as many sweets, but work them off
I totally choose b.
Now, where did I put my milkshake and chocolate bar?...
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Peachtree Road Race
Betsy, Nick and I ran the race today, and it was a lot of fun! During the race, I picked up a Moe's Teeshirt, a mellow mushroom waterbottle, and Nick picked up a beer!
We ran the 6.2 miles in 64 minutes. I was happy with it, 10 min/mile since the first 2 minutes you just walk at the start line anyway. Betsy beat me by two minutes ...We ran separately, but Nick and I spent a little time getting our free stuff (which Betsy couldn't believe =) )
I saw Nat and Jeanette, and paused a moment for jeanette to snag a photo =)
Happy independence Day!
Monday, July 03, 2006
Updates to the webpage!
I finally have posted pictures from the past month. I am usually more timely with posting pictures, but with all that traveling, I hadn't had a chance! enjoy the newly updated photos section
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