Spring

I’ve heard from an endless number of people that they can’t wait for winter to end.  I don’t want to hear from the dumbasses out there who say that technically it’s spring now and that winter is over.  Shut up.  I’m not talking about the orientation of the Earth relative to the Sun.  I’m talking […]

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Zombieland

Not like the amazing comedy zombie movie, but how I’m feeling right now, between rotating shiftwork.  I really am not a fan of a 7pm to 7am shift.  Who thinks of these?  At around 4am, my brain has resorted to begging for sleep.  I think it nearly started beating the backs of my eyeballs.  I […]

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I Made it Back

Yeah, I forgot about writing on this blog.  Gonna have to remember to do this.  I made it back from Australia.  It was totally kickin!  That’s 4 continents I’ve visited – only 3 left.

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Magnet of Woo

Bear with me – I’m writing this on my blackberry, so it’ll be short. I’ve been ‘discussing’ some topics on my facebook page after I posted a link from a guy who made a list of what skeptics (like me) really believe. Most people I know agreed with me (big surprise there) that this particular […]

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Officially Driving the Booze Bus

I arrived at work this morning, just myself and the other engineer in the alcohol department.  The superintendent took a three-day weekend, and he’ll be back tomorrow.  I learned that my partner, the one who has been showing me the ropes for the past month, has been relocated to a different plant.  He stayed for […]

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Recovery Day

I write this as I’m recovering from a cold/flu/plague.  Good thing we have modern medicine and the scientific method.  I was able to obtain a wonderous antibiotic called “Augmentin”.  My wife-doctor informed me that it was just amoxicillin, augmented with “Clavulanate Potassium”.  I don’t know how to pronounce that either, but it’s sufficient to say […]

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