ImaginaryEngr76's blog

I work for an Engineering Consulting firm.  Exciting, I know.  Anyway, traditionally our type of business gets kinda slow in December, primarily because most of our clients have spent all of their money for the year and are waiting for January to roll back around.  That being the case, I try to save up some vacation and comp time for the end of the year.  So, at noon today (I usually only work half days on Fridays) I'm blowin' out of this joint like a bat out of hell.  My co-workers won't have to see my mug again (nor will I have to see theirs) until January 2nd.

I work for an Engineering Consulting firm.  Exciting, I know.  Anyway, traditionally our type of business gets kinda slow in December, primarily because most of our clients have spent all of their money for the year and are waiting for January to roll back around.  That being the case, I try to save up some vacation and comp time for the end of the year.  So, at noon today (I usually only work half days on Fridays) I'm blowin' out of this joint like a bat out of hell.  My co-workers won't have to see my mug again (nor will I have to see theirs) until January 2nd.

Man, I just realized that I haven't touched my blog in about 2-1/2 months.  At that time I was all gung-ho about it, and thought I'd at least download to it once a week.  Oh, well - I'm just lazy I guess.

Man, I just realized that I haven't touched my blog in about 2-1/2 months.  At that time I was all gung-ho about it, and thought I'd at least download to it once a week.  Oh, well - I'm just lazy I guess.

When I'm in town, I have about a 30 minute commute from the sticks where I live into the city where I work.  While driving to work, I pretty much never listen to the radio.  If there's anything that I'm a bigger fan of than videogames, it's music.  My office at home has frighteningly high stacks of CDs, records, and tapes that I've aquired over the years.  In addition to the easily couple thousand CDs I own, I have a couple 120GB hard drives filled with digital music that I've aquired over the years from eMusic, Audiolunchbox, AllofMp3, and other various other sources.  So, I have plenty to

I got one of those newfangled 5th generation iPods around November of last year.  I know that iPods are trendy and overpriced, but regardless, I've generally been pleased with it.  It's nice to drop some TV shows on it to watch during my lunch hour.

I'm gonna make today my official "Look at my Kid Day".  Here’s my little girl, Lorelei. The nickname we’ve given her is Lolo, but she likes to refer to herself as “Yoyo”. Before she was born, I never would have guessed how fulfilling fatherhood could be. As many of you probably know, fatherhood changes you in ways both good and bad. You have the fulfillment of watching and encouraging your child to learn and grow, but at the expense of most of your freedom and free (game) time. It’s a tough compromise, but fatherhood is generally worth it.