General Jackassery

It really is the simple things in life that are the coolest. I’m currently sitting in my new cubicle at work, it’s a little bit smaller than my other cube, but it is far more private. If you want to see what I’m doing you have to either be tall enough to see over the 6′ cubicle wall, or you have to make a point to turn down the little isle that I’m on. So in light of the fact that it’s Friday afternoon, the Chief of my Branch is gone for the weekend, the Chief of my Division is gone for the weekend, Thad is gone for the weekend and just about everyone else is gone for the weekend I’m sitting with my feet propped on my desk, leaning back in my chair, a nice cool breeze blowing on me from my fan, music coming through my headphones (Puffy, “I’ll be missing you.” ), my new wireless keyboard in my lap just chillin’ dawg! It’s been a pretty good day, quite the opposite of my favorite person in the world, I have been completely useless all day (well not completely). I got up this morning and played hockey, came to work, did my training CD’s, got on my bike rode 16 miles (not bad considering I was alone in the wind and rain.) Took a shower when I got back and went to McAllisters and had lunch with my favorite person in the whole wide world. This afternoon I’ve been farting around with the new Line of Sight software that we’ve been working on and I was told that next week I will start developing spreedsheets to help us with the designs that we do. That really means that I’ve got to get one of the old computers set up to share with mine so I can use it as a server for me and Thad, then I have to learn Excel in a little deeper more personal way because these spreadsheets will require “If/then” statements and things like that. But, developing these spreadsheets should help me study for the PE. I’ll be taking that in about a year and a half, but there’s not time like the present to start learning the things that I never learned in college.

See, I was a structural engineering major in school and no my job is more like that of a transportation engineer. So, I have to learn some new things that I didn’t know. InRoads (the design software that we use) has all of that stuff in there and it computes it for you, but I need to know how it really works. The idea is to start designing roads based on a design speed instead of setting the design speed based on the alignment of the road. (Probably greek to most, but it’s cool to me.)

Anyway, it’s been a pretty good day. Hope everyone else’s is good too!