Busy, Busy, Busy
I guess it's time for another massive update. I've been really busy lately at work due to a lot of training, lab work, and a co-worker, who also happens to be a good friend, leaving the company to move to Arizona. (I think I wrote about how that sucks a few weeks ago). This week I went to Program Management 101 training. Contrary to what you believe, I found it to be very beneficial. I learned a lot of techniques I think I can apply to my projects, and I also learned a lot about how big programs are run at my company so I understand my place a little bit better. Training was also good because it got me out of the lab. My main project is to make and test 800 coupons. I can apply material to about 200 coupons in one day, and each coupon has 3 layers of material that have to be applied. I am the sole person on the team for this project and the lab work has been whoopin' my butt. It turns out that holding a paint gun up in the air for 2 hours at a time makes your arm muscles sore. Who knew? Hopefully, though, when they hire someone to replace my co-worker,Will, they'll give this project to him/her and I can move on to more interesting things. This project is really just a repeat of my first and I don't feel like I'm learning very much from it. Until they do hire someone, though, they've dumped about half of what Will was working on into my lap in addition to this project and I think things may get a little hairy for a while. In other news, I painted my dining room midnight blue last weekend to match the van gogh print that I got at a garage sale a couple weekends ago. I really love the color, and I've decided that we're going to put up crown molding so that I don't have to go back and fix the oops's where I got paint on the ceiling. I love our house, but it kinda bothers me that in most new houses they only put molding at the floor. It especially bugs me that there are no window casings and that the windows are only mullioned (the bars that make it look like many panes of glass instead of just one big one) on the front of the house. I guess all it takes is more money. It probably only bugs me because I grew up in an old house with all that stuff.