( Rambling rant about inconsiderate business practices )

So most of this week at work I have been on a savage CAD design binge. I am trying to finalize the actuator and test system design for the rotorcraft program so I can get to fabricating and assembling the thing and finally testing it. I usually do a moderate amount of CAD work in general but this has been 8 and 9 hour day of almost solid CAD work ( Read more... )

So I couldn't sleep so I just spent the last two hour remote desktop'ed into my work machine doing actual work. Got some things off my brain and hopefully can now sleep. Got lots of spring cleaning to do around the yard tomorrow. I hope the physical activity will help with the recent bought of restlessness.

So at present we usually play several games of Halo (Combat Evolved for the PC) at then end of the work day. We usually have between 4 - 6 players and for the most part really enjoy Halo but it is getting a little long in the tooth. So I would like to hear some recommendations for a good straight forward first person shooter similar to Halo but a ( Read more... )

Quick update: Dell technician showed up last Friday just before lunch put a new mother-board and new power-supply in the machine. I had everything (programs and data) installed/transfered onto the new machine by close of business Friday, minus my copy of Office 2007 that was in transit. (you can't download Office 2007 Standard?!!!). Anyway new ( Read more... )

So my new Dell workstation showed up earlier this week and after a very well executed end-run around the VP (our acting IT guy) I also managed to acquire a new 23-inch LCD to replace my aging 22 inch CRT. I finally got some free time to start the migration to the new machine today and to make a long story short... I spent 50 minutes on the phone ( Read more... )

is sort of like rummaging through someone's bedroom. Even a neat bedroom is still very difference than your own and a messy bed room is down right disturbing most of the time.

So I woke up to a bad dream this morning. I believe it was induced by a huge Chipotle burrito with too much Tabasco for lunch and then too much Wii Swordplay right before bed. I woke to the remnants of a dream that my boss had fired all the interns, laid-off half the engineers, and sent my sorry arse back to college for a second PhD. When I got ( Read more... )

Was out to California for most of the week for a business trip. Flew out Sunday back on the red-eye on Wednesday-Thursday. Over all it was a long, busy, but good trip ( Read more... )

Proposals are finished time to get some sleep and start writing a progress report.