Independence Day

Happy Fourth of July Weekend! This is the time when we celebrate our independence from taxation without representation as we are now fully represented with our taxes...sort of. I think it's also noteworthy that we could probably still defeat them, simply with the Class C "consumer" fireworks which will be lit off this weekend.

Bad Pizza!

I have a terrible secret at work. I'm normally known as the messy one here, so when my desk looks clean, everybody takes notice. It looks clean right now. In fact, it's looked relatively clean for a week or so. There's a reason for that. The file cabinet to my immediate left may look innocent, but buried inside is the truth. The top drawer looks pretty organized, with hanging folders and all.

[Blogger's note: I also have a personal filing cabinet at home. I suggest to anyone else considering doing the same: do NOT make a Miscellaneous folder unless you want that one to grow larger and larger until it begins demanding papers to eat on a regular basis]

But the bottom drawer - ha, you caught me! - is where various papers that cluttered my desk disappear to. Not even to any particular folder. They are just shoved in there without a second thought. The entire drawer is my "miscellaneous" folder. I suppose one day, I'll have to clean it out. Just not today...

I also found out that bad pizza really does exist. When I first saw dirt cheap pizza on sale at the store, I thought I was getting a huge bargain. It even had TWO pizzas with it. So finally I baked it up last evening...and I ate some of the most incredibly bland and tasteless pizza that ever existed. It had plenty of toppings, but I think they were just the same material molded into different shapes.

Worst of all, I had anticipated not eating all the pizza last evening and just packing it with my lunch today. I had not anticipated not liking it. I gave in to my laziness this morning and took the leftovers anyway. It still wasn't good. There are still some leftovers. And there might be just enough room in my bottom drawer here...

Spanish button of the day:

The Weinerdog Nationals

This past weekend, I was a lucky spectator of a local Germanfest tradition - the Weinerdog Nationals. As a former runner, I thought I had seen it all - but nothing can truly prepare you for racing Dachshunds (literal German translation: Dog which hunts McDonald's cheeseburgers). The main reason for that most of the dogs have no clue what they are doing and, therefore, it is not uncommon to see dogs going in the wrong directions, barking at the crowd, and dogs that never even venture out from the starting line. Once in a while, a dog finishes a race.

I believe it would be safe to say that this was a fulfilling weekend.

Smokin' in the temperature chamber room...

The past couple of days, I have had the utterly enjoyable experience of testing a particular product here. Required to run for many hours on end, we've been running it in an isolated temperature chamber for the past couple of days. That is until someone noted to me that it had stopped functioning.
So I went back to the temperature chamber and turned on the light. The only problem was the light didn't turn on. I went to get a co-worker and ask them what they thought, and they realized that it wasn't the light that was malfunctioning, it was that a large, thick cloud of soot had obscured the light! We opened the chamber and out came a large, billowing cloud of smoke. We had to turn on the fan and open some doors. I wonder if the device still works?
As a side note, I couldn't help but notice that the door I was opening up had a "NO SMOKING" sign on it. Hehe, I love the irony...or I would if it didn't mean more work for me!

Welcome to June

I'll just let Mona Lisa do the talking for me today.