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"

Rollercoaster

When I was a kid I loved rollercoasters/thrill rides. One of my favorites was the "Ring of Fire" that they used to have at the county fair. The only problem was that none of my friends liked rollercoasters. Since most were 2 people, I usually had to wait for when it was slow or had to ride with a stranger (since almost no one rides them by themselves). When with friends I usually had to ride on the more laid-back rides like the flying swings, Tilt-A-Whirl, Gravatron, but even then the spinning could give some trouble.

Most of my family doesn't like rides much either. I remember being in Las Vegas for a family reunion when I was ~12 and wanting to ride on the NY, NY rollercoaster and the only one who was brave enough was my widowed 75-year-old Great Aunt Rosie. I guess when you go through as much as she has (Great Depression, WWII, discrimination, being interned, starting over in L.A.) a little rollercoaster isn't much. They took the customary pictures on the ride, and of course we got some; I should try and find them next time I'm home and post one.

So what does rollercoasters have to do with me right now? Well, my life over the past couple months has been like a rollercoaster and I was feeling pretty topsy-turvy, but had to just remember and honor my parents' and grandparents' generations for surviving and prospering through their rollercoasters in order for me to have the opportunities I have today.

Besides, aren't rollercoasters supposed to be fun? So is life. :)

Moving

Well, I'm finally finished moving... I'm going to do a quick run-through tomorrow and then it's the unpacking/throw stuff away/donate stuff phase. I've got to head back to eastern Oregon ASAP, but hopefully will find my clothes and toiletries before taking off. I can't believe I lived in L.O. for 7 months already. Time is starting to go by quicker and quicker. :P

The Move

I'm moving at the end of the month, so I also decided to move my blog over from xanga. It still has my old posts from years ago, but too many ads for my taste.

This one should be easier for me to update and maintain.

Cheers to 2009!