Delays

There has been a fact of life that I forget from time to time... "Life is not fair."

The funny thing is that we're all expected to play by the same rules, but we all start at different places on the game board. Some people start at Free Parking. Some people start at the Jail. Others start at Income Tax. The lucky few start at Boardwalk. Some people are the top hat. Some people are the dog. Some people are the thimble. Others are the car.

Anyways, everyone has burdens they don't think anyone else will ever understand or care about... the trick is being able to stop and lay them down... and then start up again walking forward without looking back...

Tired

I'm tired...
Tired of trying. Tired of putting myself out there. Tired of always having to to make the first move. Tired of being an afterthought. Tired of saying yes in order to keep getting asked, but tired of saying no to try and hide. Tired of not knowing what I want. Tired of knowing and not being able to obtain. Tired of saving the day. Tired of seeing people move on and forget. Tired of selfish people, self-absorbed people, people who don't care. Tired of waiting. Tired of faith. Tired of lack of faith. Tired of people not understanding or wanting to understand. Tired of advice.
I'm tired...

What's nice...
Being missed. Smiles. Thoughtful listening. Warm cup of tea/coffee/hot chocolate. Random phone calls. Warm pie w/ a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Hugs. Laughter. Being needed. Having a purpose. Sunrises. Sunsets. Smooth jazz. Days off.
What's nice...

Valuable Lesson

One of the things I almost always forget:
Often times it's more important to a woman that she wins an argument than actually being right.

Busy

It's definitely been super busy. I was up in Bellevue for a couple weeks designing cylindrical screens for a 240 million gallon a day water intake for the City of Seattle.

Monday I get to go to Eugene for some setup for testing that I'm going to be doing the following three weeks. Had the project meeting today and they said climbing harnesses, life jackets, hard hats, rain gear and sun screen will probably going to be necessary. O.o This will be interesting.

Will be heading back next weekend for my cousin's wedding and might stop by my company's Boise office to drop off some paperwork.

Eventually I hope I'll have time to post a more proper blog... until then, Salute!

Andrew

Costco

Costco sells everything... I just saw Chacos there for 60 bucks! :O

Work

Well, I survived the first week back at work. A little crazy since one of our admins got back from maternity leave (4 admins running around), and I got deleted out of our system somehow so it took almost 3 days before I got a computer. Though, my laptop for work is awesome. It's a CAD machine with 3 GB of ram with a Quad Core processor. O.o What's weird is that it doesn't have Vista. I still managed to get 60% billable time for the week and managed to avoid filling out any performance goals. We'll see how everything goes. I found out that 5 people in the company got laid off (mostly senior people, one from here and 4 from Pasedena), but I got hired. Go figure.

My Onid account is about to be deleted, so I no longer feel like an OSU student anymore. The tricky part is getting all the accounts I linked to my OSU e-mail to my other e-mail accounts. Oh well, it's kind of a fresh start like getting a new phone number.

Happy March everyone! :)

Shapes

I started a comic this summer and never really got around to posting them... Here's the first from my series, "Shapes"