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5.18.04
So yesterday was decent in its own way. Got up about 15 minutes late for work in the morning but was still able to get ready and eat breakfast in 10 minutes, crazy but did it. Then off to work at 7:35 am to be there at 7:55am. Got there on time, and did the usual morning routine.
Unpacked my bag, turned on the comp, got my cup of coffee (which was actually really really good yesterday since they had some french vanilla flavored creamers which is my FAVORITE kind of flavored coffee) and then went on to read all my email and then read the NYTimes.
The world is crazy right now with all these scandals and bullshit going on so I decided to try and avoid that and just read about good things, like how the Pistons beat the Nets and how its going on to game 7 now, the FINAL COUNTDOWN BABY!!! D-TOWN WHAT??
After reading the NYTimes, realized I had finally gotten a phone, and my new number was quite interesting. Everyone, all 700 employees in the new Troy office, all have their first three digits (besides the 248 area code) as 307. So that means everyone has their last 4 digits different (Duh) and mine so happen to be 5114. Not only is 11 in the the 4 digit combo, but if you add them all up its also 11. CRAZINESS!!!
So once I was done calling my mom with the new phone, who wasnt home but my sister was b/c she had a half day, I went on to do my work.
I have 3 projects going on right now. The first one is for Bob, the senior analyst for both the car and truck platforms, he oversees Veronica and Sandy whom are also senior analysts but they specialize. IE Sandy is in charge of Trucks and Veronica is Cars. Anyways, what I am doing for him is creating a spreadsheet set (meaning there are multiple worksheets within) of a CYP vs. 4+8 variance and YTD vs. Close4 variance analysis. It takes some time, and took me the greater part of almost all of yesterday to do, a few hours both before and after lunch. I'll be finishing it this morning (its only 8:35 am, and I am adding my journaling to my morning routine, so it can wait 10-15 minutes) and should be done with it before lunch.
The second project is something I am so close to being done with, its for Scott, one of the senior platform controllers for the Truck division and it is also a spreadsheet set, but what it is is a detailed breakdown of the truck platform that picks apart each plant and its sales/labor/materials/overhead and then computes the OI and avg unit price and cost with the volume figures that are input afterwards. I only have one more worksheet to do, and then once I'm done with that one, I use the data as a template to reforcast the values for a set volume level. Its kinda cool. Lots of numbers and stuff, but that is all I do all day, its neat in its own little way.
The last project is a joint project between Mike, Bob, and Don that basically the entire CFD division will end up using, but anyhow its a massive spreadsheet set with a very intricate breakdown of the truck and car platforms to do some hardcore analysis and eventually burn some the plants that have been fudging their numbers.
So worked and had BK for lunch, tried to get the paint for my tail lights at Meijer but they didnt have my color, damnit. Oh well, gonna try Murrays, got to get that paint because the taillights come tomorrow!
Got home, had dinner with the fam, mom made these chicken ravioli things that were relly good, then had to go through all the junk in the garage to see what it is that I wanted for the house next year and ended up getting 4 kickin lamps, 2 sweatass table sets, and the weight bench set and roman chair for 522 next year.
Once I got done with all that and actually still was doing it, Mike wanted to toss a frisbee around so we did that for a bit, nie to talk to him about PRD which kicked ass on Sunday and jst life in general. Then got home and talked to the bro then did some stuff on the comp, and then Abby called so I talked to her for a bit, she finally got a job yesterday, I'm SO PROUD OF HER, and she was really excited probably because she got the job, didnt have to go to the vet and got to go shopping for work clothes.
After talking to my special someone on the phone, I went online to get Blain his intake and spare rim for the Jeep, and ended up talking to Abby even more which was simply awesome. Also found a rear strut bar for the Talon, so I ordered that, the rim, and intake before I went to take a shower. Then off to bed where I watched City of Angels for a bit, a movie I still haven't seen, and the 20 minutes I did makes me want to really bad.
Weekend Review:
Wanted to add this in there as a standard Monday thing as well. But since I missed yesterday to write, Ill do it today.
Ok, so let me start off by saying this weekend was frickin SWEETA and that it was the most random yet cool weekend ever.
Friday I was supposed to hang out with Abby, Ken, Sandra, Ashley, Christina, and Mike. Yeah so after everyone bailed on us (except for Ken who didnt want to be a 3rd wheel which is totally understandable) Abby and I had the night to ourselves. After jsut lounging around and talking like we do, we thought about getting food at like 9ish, but neither were really hungry so we decided to check on the Pistons. WOW, what a game. Triple overtime and we didnt eat dinner worth it game. After the game we "chilled" and I dont even remember when but we called it a night sometime that was pretty late.
Saturday was even better, I dont know how it could have gotten better after our Friday night taht was WOW, but it did because it was really laid back and fun. I got some errands done and had lunch with Mike at Quiznos where we got larges for the prices of regulars since I always get mad hookups there and we talked about PRD and made up some Kick ass lines that worked out so well on Sunday (more on that in a few) and also came up with the idea to make Greg Kent, our team manager and coach, a special PRD polo shirt, which we did. It turned out great.
I then changed my oil and then went to mass with Mike and his parents before getting back home. Abby then came over right when my parents and I started discussing one of m huge channelings/writings and we ended up talking for over 2 hours about all these amazing things! It was SO UNREAL! And Abby was there with me the entire time! It was simply beautiful.
Then bugged over to Ken's place for a bit, got to see C'rag and picked up my mom's comp from Mike which is working great now, finally dont have to have my bro and sis using my comp.
Then came back at around midnightish, and Abby "spent the night at Ashley's house" hehehe. Blain and his group got back a little afterwards and we talked to them abot Prom and such, seemed like they had a great time.
Did some "stuff" and such and talked and wrestled and tickled...mmmmmmm...lots of fun. 3-Amigos what?? HAHAHAHA!
Fell asleep at around 4ish and slept till 6ish when we half assed woke up, and it felt like I had been sleeping since 7pm on Saturday. DAMN. I have never ever ever slept taht good in my entire life, especially with someone else there with me, normally I cant sleep and I toss around, but not in this case. WOW it was JUST SO AWESOME!
Later woke up around 9am had breakfast, chilled and such till I had to go to drumming. Did the B-Ham parade (this is Sunday now) and my Mom, Shelly, Brit, Ken and Abby all came to watch! Thanks guys! It went ok, then went to BK afterwards with Abby and Ken where we talked for a long time about lots of stuff including cars (sorry babes). Dropped off Abby and then went home and rigged up the whole computer network in the basement before dinner. Jacked the "Man on Fire" movie off my mom's comp that Mike put on there for me and then made a CD before the PRD game 4.
Ok, I am not going to write forever about the game even though I could. But in short, it was F***IN KICKA$$! We played the best game of the season, and won 6-1. Mine and Blain's line that has Reza and Mike on it got 3 of the 6 goals, once again we got 50%+ of the team's overall points. The whole team though was just great! Everyone was into it, I think we even got sme fans on there feet for the last 2 goals that our line scored. Everyone shared in the intensity.
Chilled for a sec with Abby, Ken, MIke, Jason, and Amber after the game then took Abby home then to bed, was so tired.
Catch you all on the flipside
So yesterday was decent in its own way. Got up about 15 minutes late for work in the morning but was still able to get ready and eat breakfast in 10 minutes, crazy but did it. Then off to work at 7:35 am to be there at 7:55am. Got there on time, and did the usual morning routine.
Unpacked my bag, turned on the comp, got my cup of coffee (which was actually really really good yesterday since they had some french vanilla flavored creamers which is my FAVORITE kind of flavored coffee) and then went on to read all my email and then read the NYTimes.
The world is crazy right now with all these scandals and bullshit going on so I decided to try and avoid that and just read about good things, like how the Pistons beat the Nets and how its going on to game 7 now, the FINAL COUNTDOWN BABY!!! D-TOWN WHAT??
After reading the NYTimes, realized I had finally gotten a phone, and my new number was quite interesting. Everyone, all 700 employees in the new Troy office, all have their first three digits (besides the 248 area code) as 307. So that means everyone has their last 4 digits different (Duh) and mine so happen to be 5114. Not only is 11 in the the 4 digit combo, but if you add them all up its also 11. CRAZINESS!!!
So once I was done calling my mom with the new phone, who wasnt home but my sister was b/c she had a half day, I went on to do my work.
I have 3 projects going on right now. The first one is for Bob, the senior analyst for both the car and truck platforms, he oversees Veronica and Sandy whom are also senior analysts but they specialize. IE Sandy is in charge of Trucks and Veronica is Cars. Anyways, what I am doing for him is creating a spreadsheet set (meaning there are multiple worksheets within) of a CYP vs. 4+8 variance and YTD vs. Close4 variance analysis. It takes some time, and took me the greater part of almost all of yesterday to do, a few hours both before and after lunch. I'll be finishing it this morning (its only 8:35 am, and I am adding my journaling to my morning routine, so it can wait 10-15 minutes) and should be done with it before lunch.
The second project is something I am so close to being done with, its for Scott, one of the senior platform controllers for the Truck division and it is also a spreadsheet set, but what it is is a detailed breakdown of the truck platform that picks apart each plant and its sales/labor/materials/overhead and then computes the OI and avg unit price and cost with the volume figures that are input afterwards. I only have one more worksheet to do, and then once I'm done with that one, I use the data as a template to reforcast the values for a set volume level. Its kinda cool. Lots of numbers and stuff, but that is all I do all day, its neat in its own little way.
The last project is a joint project between Mike, Bob, and Don that basically the entire CFD division will end up using, but anyhow its a massive spreadsheet set with a very intricate breakdown of the truck and car platforms to do some hardcore analysis and eventually burn some the plants that have been fudging their numbers.
So worked and had BK for lunch, tried to get the paint for my tail lights at Meijer but they didnt have my color, damnit. Oh well, gonna try Murrays, got to get that paint because the taillights come tomorrow!
Got home, had dinner with the fam, mom made these chicken ravioli things that were relly good, then had to go through all the junk in the garage to see what it is that I wanted for the house next year and ended up getting 4 kickin lamps, 2 sweatass table sets, and the weight bench set and roman chair for 522 next year.
Once I got done with all that and actually still was doing it, Mike wanted to toss a frisbee around so we did that for a bit, nie to talk to him about PRD which kicked ass on Sunday and jst life in general. Then got home and talked to the bro then did some stuff on the comp, and then Abby called so I talked to her for a bit, she finally got a job yesterday, I'm SO PROUD OF HER, and she was really excited probably because she got the job, didnt have to go to the vet and got to go shopping for work clothes.
After talking to my special someone on the phone, I went online to get Blain his intake and spare rim for the Jeep, and ended up talking to Abby even more which was simply awesome. Also found a rear strut bar for the Talon, so I ordered that, the rim, and intake before I went to take a shower. Then off to bed where I watched City of Angels for a bit, a movie I still haven't seen, and the 20 minutes I did makes me want to really bad.
Weekend Review:
Wanted to add this in there as a standard Monday thing as well. But since I missed yesterday to write, Ill do it today.
Ok, so let me start off by saying this weekend was frickin SWEETA and that it was the most random yet cool weekend ever.
Friday I was supposed to hang out with Abby, Ken, Sandra, Ashley, Christina, and Mike. Yeah so after everyone bailed on us (except for Ken who didnt want to be a 3rd wheel which is totally understandable) Abby and I had the night to ourselves. After jsut lounging around and talking like we do, we thought about getting food at like 9ish, but neither were really hungry so we decided to check on the Pistons. WOW, what a game. Triple overtime and we didnt eat dinner worth it game. After the game we "chilled" and I dont even remember when but we called it a night sometime that was pretty late.
Saturday was even better, I dont know how it could have gotten better after our Friday night taht was WOW, but it did because it was really laid back and fun. I got some errands done and had lunch with Mike at Quiznos where we got larges for the prices of regulars since I always get mad hookups there and we talked about PRD and made up some Kick ass lines that worked out so well on Sunday (more on that in a few) and also came up with the idea to make Greg Kent, our team manager and coach, a special PRD polo shirt, which we did. It turned out great.
I then changed my oil and then went to mass with Mike and his parents before getting back home. Abby then came over right when my parents and I started discussing one of m huge channelings/writings and we ended up talking for over 2 hours about all these amazing things! It was SO UNREAL! And Abby was there with me the entire time! It was simply beautiful.
Then bugged over to Ken's place for a bit, got to see C'rag and picked up my mom's comp from Mike which is working great now, finally dont have to have my bro and sis using my comp.
Then came back at around midnightish, and Abby "spent the night at Ashley's house" hehehe. Blain and his group got back a little afterwards and we talked to them abot Prom and such, seemed like they had a great time.
Did some "stuff" and such and talked and wrestled and tickled...mmmmmmm...lots of fun. 3-Amigos what?? HAHAHAHA!
Fell asleep at around 4ish and slept till 6ish when we half assed woke up, and it felt like I had been sleeping since 7pm on Saturday. DAMN. I have never ever ever slept taht good in my entire life, especially with someone else there with me, normally I cant sleep and I toss around, but not in this case. WOW it was JUST SO AWESOME!
Later woke up around 9am had breakfast, chilled and such till I had to go to drumming. Did the B-Ham parade (this is Sunday now) and my Mom, Shelly, Brit, Ken and Abby all came to watch! Thanks guys! It went ok, then went to BK afterwards with Abby and Ken where we talked for a long time about lots of stuff including cars (sorry babes). Dropped off Abby and then went home and rigged up the whole computer network in the basement before dinner. Jacked the "Man on Fire" movie off my mom's comp that Mike put on there for me and then made a CD before the PRD game 4.
Ok, I am not going to write forever about the game even though I could. But in short, it was F***IN KICKA$$! We played the best game of the season, and won 6-1. Mine and Blain's line that has Reza and Mike on it got 3 of the 6 goals, once again we got 50%+ of the team's overall points. The whole team though was just great! Everyone was into it, I think we even got sme fans on there feet for the last 2 goals that our line scored. Everyone shared in the intensity.
Chilled for a sec with Abby, Ken, MIke, Jason, and Amber after the game then took Abby home then to bed, was so tired.
Catch you all on the flipside