I have been inundated with work recently. Â I felt it was more than I could handle. Â That feeling is horrible for someone who requires mastery of all within his domain. Â If you didn’t get the hint, that would be me. Â I then asked myself a very simple question. Â Why did I want to become an engineer? Â How did I go from a desire to explore the universe [1] to being a glorified tinkerer? The earliest…
I’ve just found out that someone from my earliest memories passed away April of last year. Â He was one of the first people to help my family and I when we first came here to these strange shores. Â This passing along with my Grandmother, an old boss last year and my Parent’s dog this year leaves me bewildered. Â I understand the effects of time at a subconscious and intellectual level, but it doesn’t prepare me…
I’ll start by saying that the title above is complete horse shit. There are moments in my life that delineate my more ignorant periods from my less ignorant periods.  I recently had one of these delineating moments a few weeks ago.  A co-worker of mine came into  my office because some work was passed to him that originated from me.  At the time the work was passed to the group he was working for, I…
I woke up this morning and puttered around until I came upon my collection of work day-planners on the lowest tier of my book shelf which numbers 8 in total.  The company I work for has given out day-planner/calender for as long as I’ve been working for them.  The scary part is that it’s fast approaching 10 years since I started working there. Early on I used the day-planner at work in an unconventional way.  I logged what…
This is the third and probably final post for 2010.  I’ve been occupied with life.  It’s like a clingy baby.  It just won’t let go of me. What’s the takeaway from all my experiences this year?  The abstract part of me would say I’m not yet complete.  Like all those websites with the “under construction” label on their homepage during the dot-com mania.  Everyone and their dog had a website trying to cash in.  So yeah.…