Mia

So I think I've finally decided on a name for my motorcycle.. yeah, only took a year. That's not so bad.... right? I decided that it's gonna be Mia. Anyway, so a couple of weeks ago I finally had the opportunity (read: it was warm enough) to put on my rim tape on my wheels. It's a red tape to match the bike, and it's also reflective which you can see in 2 of these pictures when the flash went off on my camera. I still need to see if my sister will do a photoshoot with me and Mia together, but I haven't officially asked her yet ;) So I just did these all amateur-like with my own camera. I know I've been promising pictures for awhile, and finally I felt like she was pretty enough to take some. Enjoy!

In case you don't remember my last (and first) motorcycle "Balinha," here's a picture of her so you can see the difference between the two pretty clearly:

So what's it like to actually have something to write about? Okay, well, part of the reason why I haven't updated was because a month ago I bought a new computer, and I haven't yet bothered to set all of the bookmarks I used to have on my other computer, so I haven't even checked my (and other's) blogs or anything.. so that pretty much explains the last month. But the 2 months before that? Eh. Really, if anything amazing happened, I'd probably let you know about it. Things have happened, I just don't know that I would classify them as amazing.

I opted to not take any classes this semester at school, for various reasons. In no particular order: 1) To work full time and save up money to get me a head start on the next couple of semesters 2) because I have no idea what I even want to study so I want to take some time to figure it out 3) because I seriously procrastinated registration so I couldn't even get into the classes I needed/wanted anyway without dealing with that whole waiting list garbage.

Turns out it was a good thing I didn't have any classes this semester, I think. In January, the company I work for went through some major changes, essentially they split into 3 smaller companies, and suddenly I found myself moving to a new location and being the one put in charge of an entire warehouse worth of inventory. It was a pretty tall order. For several weeks, from the moment I clocked in (8am) to the moment I clocked out (5pm) I was so busy I couldn't even think straight. The good part is, the time flew by those days, but it came with a price: my sanity. I was going pretty crazy and even once was so frustrated with all of my new responsibilities, and having to take care of them in a brand new system with a steep learning curve, I considered quitting. I didn't, thank goodness. I can only imagine what a terrible mess I would have been if I had to juggle those new responsibilities and a school schedule. I'm really glad I didn't take any classes this semester.

But now that my job has calmed down quite a bit, I'm beginning to see just how much free time I have at work... it actually kind of sucks. Even still there are things for me to do in the slower times (mostly cataloging parts of the inventory (yeah that's still not done yet)), but when that stuff is done, I'm really gonna be short on things to do. This is a good thing for when school starts up again, because it will mean my schedule will be more flexibile for taking classes, and hopefully I'll be able to take more classes per semester and get done sooner. Whenever I find out what I want to study...

Okay, so maybe saying that there hasn't been much to talk about in the past few months was sort of a lie. Actually, there was only really 1 thing to talk about, I just dragged it on for a few paragraphs.. I guess I tend to do that. Whoops. I think I just really like typing in general. If I could get a job where all I did was type all day.. that might suit me just fine. Well... maybe not, but I still do enjoy typing (keep in mind this is different than writing).

Um. Well, it's midnight, so I guess I'll end this here. Sorry for the long time distance between updates. Usually this is where I promise that I'll update more often, but when I promise that it usually doesn't happen so.......... don't hold your breath. :)

Conditional Identity?

A conversation with a customer I had at work a few minutes ago:

*ring ring*
Man: "Hello?"
Me: "Hello, is this Joey?"
Man: "May I ask who's calling?"
Me: "This is Phil from from [workplace]."
Man: "Yes, this is Joey."

I don't understand... so your identity was conditional depending on who I was?

Intriguing.

Why can't Black Friday deals come after I get my tax return? Especially the deals on new computers, because I'd really like a new one.

So I decided kind of on a whim to take an online typing test. There are a variety of them, but this is the first one that I settled on.



This particular website just has you type completely random words as fast as you can in 1 minute, which I don't think it's a completely accurate way of measuring your WPM. If I were having to type out real sentences, worrying about capitalization, punctuation, and grammar, I'm sure I wouldn't have scored something that high. So I think the score I got from this typing test is probably a bit higher than my actual WPM would be in a real situation. Still, at least it's fun to pound out random words and see how many you were able to do in 1 minute. Click on the image if you want to go try it out yourself.

Photoshoot

Last week I had the awesome privilege of seeing and spending time with my sister Katie and her kids who were visiting from New Mexico for a few days. Katie loves photography and has a good camera, and since I've always wanted to have some good shots of me on my motorcycle with all my gear on, I asked if she'd be willing to take some pictures! She was more than willing (I think ;)) so on an overcast Saturday we headed out a few blocks toward the airport and goofed around and took some pictures for about a half an hour. As payment, I took her for a ride on the back of Balinha. She can now say she went 70mph on the back of a motorcycle, hehe. It was fun. She took a bunch of pictures but here are the ones I liked the most (I made them smaller):




That last one is an action shot so it's probably my favorite. :) Thanks again Katie for the "photoshoot session," it was fun! And I got to show off the bike! :D

Our Accent is Crapshaith

Let me start off by saying that probably none of you will find this post funny, but I just had to preserve it somehow.

When my co-worker Brock and I talk to eachother, we usually do it in some form of heavy, exaggerated Russian accent. Is it close to a genuine Russian accent? No, probably not at all. Actually, it stems from us both having a good laugh at this commercial and running with it. Anyway, due to our schedules only overlapping twice a week, I only see him on those days. But when I got to work on Friday, I found an armature (power tool part) on my desk with a note that read:

Deer Fil,
The Jipseys sended me brokens armatures. The fan is crapshaith.
Ples get me a new 1.
-Brocknov

I laughed so hard, even though I'm sure you didn't. :)