The building I work in is at one corner of a big parking lot. I get to work at 8:00 or 8:30, but a lot of people come in earlier than me and so I always have to park on the other side of the lot and walk to my building.
Someone who parks in the same lot has a Delorean. You know, the car from the Back to the Future movies. I don’t know where the guy works, but I see the car a lot and it always amuses me. Today he pulled into the lot at the same time as me and parked nearby, so I got to watch him get out of the car. The door opened by swinging up on its hinge, and I looked for the flux capacitor. I thought about asking him if he’s everything had anything weird happen at 88 mph. I was amused. Ah, simple pleasures.
I have a new obsessive song. Eve 6, “Here’s to the Night.” I put it on my July CD and have been listening to it at work, which has been very slow lately, probably for two reasons. One, I’m tired. I haven’t caught up on sleep in a while, and though the cold I was fighting last week has gone back into hiding, I still feel its effects. Two, my project has reached a point of treading water. I worked like crazy for the last month to update code and add new analysis capabilities and run preliminary numbers, but now I’ve reached the point where I don’t fully understand what I need to do next. I need to compare each point along the DPS trajectory to every point along the CRV trajectory. It sounds simple, but my elementary programming knowledge makes it more of a challenge. Hopefully I can figure it out by the end of the week. As soon as I do, my project moves into the exciting phase, and I get to start producing substantial data. Woo!
Another favorite new song is Fuel’s “Bad Day.” It comes close to describing my life from January to May of this year. Bad days…again and again and again. Summer has been much kinder to me. And with that, I think it’s safe to say that I have officially begun to ramble, so I’ll quit typing.