What's Goin On in Our Real Lives

[Pyrotex]

First day on my new job!

 

New company: SAIC (Software Applications International Corporation).

 

My cubicle is larger, nicer and more useful. They even changed the height of the desks for me. :cup: Nice people. Fantastic IT department. Great support staff. Security is fierce. I won't be able to post from work any more. :cup: :( :( All keystrokes are monitored by security software.

 

I really enjoyed the call from Jay-Qu Saturday!!! :esmoking: I never talked to someone that far away before. NW Australia! Wow, dudes!!!!!! Thanks again, JQ. I was blown away. Great luck in your studies.

 

Pyro/Nelson

[Jay-qu]

It was my pleasure Pyro :esmoking: It was great to have a chat.

 

Now I just have to choose my units for next year.. decisions decision

[Pyrotex]

Well here I am in a new (100 year old) house, a new wheelchair, a new job and a new shoulder. My 61st birthday is coming up in a week. What could I possibly want?

 

So, I called up a friend of mine (a fellow Unitarian and NASA engineer), and he took me out Sunday morning for an hour-long ride on the back of his

 

Honda Goldwing! :weather_snowing: :) :hihi: :) ;)

 

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I guess that makes me a "biker *****"??? :earth:

[freeztar]

Today was spent hugging trees. It was my job. :)

We are working on a stream restoration project and it involved several different evaluations, mostly pertaining to the small stream.

A county ordinance requires that all trees (included in its list of "preferred" species) having a diameter larger than 12 inches be preserved, or else mitigated (ie tree plantings of sufficient biomass), in accordance with county regulations. Surveyors are following behind and recording the points. I had to mark the trees and species so that they can shoot in the "critical" trees. Wrapping flagging-tape around a 20-inch diameter sweet gum (L. styraciflua) requires a reach-around hug.

 

I love my job! :)

[Jay-qu]

My laptop got a virus I have managed to recover all my personal files but am having trouble fixing it.. so Im looking at a full re-format possible install of linux.

 

Jay-qu will be back with you shortly, sorry for any inconvenience

[learnin to learn]

well I am currently on christmas break. My girl friend is about to leave for china where she will be studying for the next four months. And I cannot wait to get back to school!

[InfiniteNow]

I began my first class at university in seven years today. Chinese. It's going to be tough. My company is paying for it though, as long as I keep my grades up, that is. I bought a motorcycle, and have been doing some maintenance on it replacing plugs and fluids and tubes and the like. This way, I can actually find parking, which is impossible to do in a car at the University of Texas campus. I'm still working on the same monster project I was a year ago, and we are now only five months away from go-live of phase 1. The house is coming a long. I've been doing drywall and concrete work lately, and spent a few weekends over the holiday in my attic redoing electrical.

 

Anyway, I had my first class today. Chinese. Gan bei. :shrug:

[Michaelangelica]

Going into hospital tomorrow to see if any Big C is left.:)

 

Funny how your mind says "Who cares, lots of opium ahead":)

While all the budging bacteria say "Noooooo!":eek2:

[Pyrotex]

Just got back from a week vacation with the wife in Colorado: Colorado Springs, Manitou Springs, Alamosa, Canon City. Fantastic! I'll spell it all out in my blog, when I can find the time.

Now I'm back at work trying to revise the first probabalistic risk analysis I did for NASA back 18 months ago -- because some new data has come up. Man! Trying to remember your thought processes while writing a technical document over a year ago is a pain in the patooskis.

 

Good luck michaelangelica!

[Michaelangelica]

All clear

( so why am I sick? )