award
ok, so i was at my weekly sub-divisional group meeting a few minutes ago, going over projects and whatnot, and the director gave out the quarterly technical innovation awards. one is given to a person on each group (there are two groups) for technically innovative work that helped get a project out quicker or helped make the project more of a success. i won. i like getting recognition for hard work and everything... just not in front of everyone. i was afraid, once the director starting talking, that maybe i was going to get chosen cuz i knew that my director really liked my work on a particular project (so much so that after seeing it he called me after work hours to tell me what a good job i had done). well... he called my name and told everyone what project it was for and then gave me the plaque and stuff. it's really nice and everything. i appreciate getting recognized. i just... feel bad. i've gotten two raises and a promotion (and now the award) within the past few months, but a friend of mine at work got nothing but a pittance of a raise. and she works really hard, too. i know i shouldn't feel guilty for doing well this year, but... i can't help it. she works hard, too, and i wish she was recognized for it. granted, she's not on my team so i don't see all the work she does and i can't suggest to the manager she get promoted... but i still think it's unfair. anyway...
watched a bunch of movies over the weekend. the one that's stayed with me the most is the descent. i remember seeing the trailer for it and thinking it looked totally lame and stupid. then, a friend of mine highly recommended it and i had seen it had actually gotten pretty good reviews. well, gaye and i rented it. it was really quite good. very unsettling. it's about a group of women from the UK who, once a year, go on a rock climbing/white water rafting/cave diving type excursion. this particular year, they go cave diving and get really deep in the cave and find that they are not alone. it sounds a lot like a movie that was released around the same time named "the cave". i have seen both. the cave was a lame monster movie that doesn't even deserve my mentioning it. the descent, on the other hand, was really quite effective in setting the claustrophobia of being trapped in a cave, getting chased by God knows what. since i wouldn't want to put any spoilers in here, i'll just say that i was glued to the screen until the end. some might not like it, but i liked it quite a bit.
next, i watched everything is illuminated. it's about an american jew that goes to russia to find a woman that helped his grandfather escape before the nazis invaded the ukraine. as depressing an idea as it sounds, it was actually quite funny. i don't really want to spoil anything about this movie, either, so i'll just say i enjoyed this movie, too.
finally, i watched the matador. it's a movie about a hitman (pierce borsnan) going through an identity crisis who befriends an ad executive (greg kinnear) while in mexico. i liked this one the least, though that's not saying it was bad or anything. i just thought that the other movies were better. it wasn't bad. actually, it was often quite funny, too. it just... didn't hit me like the other two did. maybe it was cuz i watched too many movies this weekend. i dunno.
so i signed on a new roof the other day. i'm thinking maybe i'll take out a HELOC to pay for the roof (since the roofing company said they could finance it at about 12% and a heloc would be more like 7% and i could write it off on my taxes) since i can't pay for the 6k price tag right out of my checking account. i'm thinking maybe i'll also get my new stove and tv and put those on the heloc, as well. that way i don't have to have credit lines for abc warehouse and the roofing company, but instead just have it to a lender (hopefully my bank so i can use our mortgage payment system which i designed and which is sweet.) i'll have to think about it a little bit more, but i think that's what i'm going to do.
watched a bunch of movies over the weekend. the one that's stayed with me the most is the descent. i remember seeing the trailer for it and thinking it looked totally lame and stupid. then, a friend of mine highly recommended it and i had seen it had actually gotten pretty good reviews. well, gaye and i rented it. it was really quite good. very unsettling. it's about a group of women from the UK who, once a year, go on a rock climbing/white water rafting/cave diving type excursion. this particular year, they go cave diving and get really deep in the cave and find that they are not alone. it sounds a lot like a movie that was released around the same time named "the cave". i have seen both. the cave was a lame monster movie that doesn't even deserve my mentioning it. the descent, on the other hand, was really quite effective in setting the claustrophobia of being trapped in a cave, getting chased by God knows what. since i wouldn't want to put any spoilers in here, i'll just say that i was glued to the screen until the end. some might not like it, but i liked it quite a bit.
next, i watched everything is illuminated. it's about an american jew that goes to russia to find a woman that helped his grandfather escape before the nazis invaded the ukraine. as depressing an idea as it sounds, it was actually quite funny. i don't really want to spoil anything about this movie, either, so i'll just say i enjoyed this movie, too.
finally, i watched the matador. it's a movie about a hitman (pierce borsnan) going through an identity crisis who befriends an ad executive (greg kinnear) while in mexico. i liked this one the least, though that's not saying it was bad or anything. i just thought that the other movies were better. it wasn't bad. actually, it was often quite funny, too. it just... didn't hit me like the other two did. maybe it was cuz i watched too many movies this weekend. i dunno.
so i signed on a new roof the other day. i'm thinking maybe i'll take out a HELOC to pay for the roof (since the roofing company said they could finance it at about 12% and a heloc would be more like 7% and i could write it off on my taxes) since i can't pay for the 6k price tag right out of my checking account. i'm thinking maybe i'll also get my new stove and tv and put those on the heloc, as well. that way i don't have to have credit lines for abc warehouse and the roofing company, but instead just have it to a lender (hopefully my bank so i can use our mortgage payment system which i designed and which is sweet.) i'll have to think about it a little bit more, but i think that's what i'm going to do.