Quirk

Have you ever done something strange for no apparent reason?

I told my boss that I'd have this table of comparisons between what some pipeline was saying to a company vs. what the company was getting by noon today. I'd put this together in a few forms in the past few days, but every time he was looking for something a little bit more. So I just went all out on it, headed down to the Airport at 2pm yesterday, went around back of it to the Air Cargo area, which nobody ever sees, and got to work in the Fuel Farm for the account I'm working on. I had to leave at 5pm because I had other things to do, but I came back at 2am and worked until around 8:30am straight through. I not only gave him this table, but also identified the trends, in the data and possible next steps.

Why did I do all that? Now I'm just tired and I have to get to work for the rest of the day still.

My dad was in town yesterday, he took me and Dan out to dinner and we talked for a long while. I dunno why exactly, but I'm not too psyched about the wedding this weekend. It's not that I'm not happy for my big bro and Coley, more that I just have a hell of a lot going on right now in every aspect of life except for the aspect where I actually do things.

I don't feel like I'm doing much with life right now. I'm just waiting. I hate that feeling. I don't want to wait but I don't know where to go or what to do. I'm waiting for Dunia to get back, I'm waiting for a paycheck, I'm waiting for equipment at work, I'm waiting for someone to get back to me in my game, I'm waiting for the weekend, I'm waiting for a chance to sleep, I'm waiting for a chance to impress, etc.... I'm waiting for life, so by association, I'm waiting for death.

Work is fine, it's interesting and it's not boring when I have something to do, but I'm not living to work. I need something better than work to do. Not healthy to have nothing else. Moo I say. I need life sustenance.

Things are picking up a little

So this entire week I've been trying to begin this job. I've finally gotten 2 of the 3 accounts that I need to fully access the work network, and I should have the last one in about half an hour when the system updates. I've been waiting it out and trying to push the process along all week. I finally got my company laptop today, but its not much good until I can fully get on the network.

So Wednesday afternoon, my boss Woz asks me to stay late an hour to jump on a conference call with him, and to head over to his office at 4:30 so he can explain the project to me. I head over at 4:30, he tells me that the project is with a client in Belchez, Louisiana, or someplace like that, and that he wants me to be the engineer on the job. I figured what the hey, so he continued on to tell me its setting up our Fuel Management system on around 500 tanks. I let him know that I had no idea how to do that yet and he said there'd probably be another engineer accompanying me while I started, comforting. We get on the call and figure out what the customer wants, he said I'll probably be flying out there Mon-Fri for 3 or 4 weeks throughout May/June. He then said I'll probably get a chance to work on a project in Singapore for 2 weeks with one of the head engineers. I like the sound of that!

Today one of the other oil & gas system engineers had me shadow him around and showed me how to set up our systems on both the client and the server side, but what all that exactly does, I'm still a little unsure of. I have a ways to go before I will understand this product.

I apply for my software/hardware master keys, Blackberry, Air Card, eID, etc. tomorrow. I like the speed of this job so far, there's not too much downtime in the beginning, so I get to jump right into it. I'm looking for an opportunity to impress some people, the first couple weeks/months are pretty important as far as showing folks what you can do. I think I've done some good towards this goal, but I also think I've done some bad towards it.

I need to adjust myself and my lifestyle to fit in this new concept of an 8 hour workday. I'm not going to get anywhere if I keep pulling less than 6 hours sleep a night. I also need to finish up with this moving business and put all my shit away. And Comcast needs to quit being a bunch of dickwads and activate my cable internet/tv already, they've missed the appointment time 3 times this week already.

I need to de-stress, the recent tremors and disturbances in my lifestyle have been making me feel very needy, and I hate that. I also need more work-work to do, that way I not only have something to do during the workday, but something to resort to besides Youtube videos when I'm bored at home.

Life Begins

Final Exam (ME3720) ended on Friday at 11:50

Grades:
ECE 2901 - A
ECE 4460 - B
ECE 4500 - C
ECE 4607 - C
ECE 4884 - A
GRMN 1002 - S (pass)
ME 3720 - C

Final GPA: 2.5 in ECE program, 2.39 in GT overall

I started working on Monday, a lot of orientation and getting started stuff. Not too interesting at the moment, but it'll pick up once I'm actually working.