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Last Saturday we went down to K-town to see Keith and Danielle and to drop by Sara's parents for a minute. We saw K&D's new house and it's got a lot of cool stuff. We hooked up their washer and dryer but before doing so we had to clean 3/16" of goop off the floor. I have no idea what it is. It was like a mixture of old gum and motor oil - and about that wonderful to clean up. Keith put some supposedly amazing soap-like substance on it and rubbed it in real good but that was about useless. It may have taken off less than 1/16th but in order to do more it would take for ever. So being the ingenius fools that we is, we deduced that an old movie theater gift card with a few cents left on it and my industrial safety training card worked wonders for scraping it off the floor. Then the soap helped us out to finish the job.

They also showed us a creepy room that has a tree root growing in it. There was a bucket in one corner that had a pump thing in it. I played around with it and figured out it turned on when the water level reached a certain height. Genius! It works like a toilet only instead of the float reaching a certain height and water turning off, the float flips a switch to turn the pump on which sends water through a one-way valve in the drain in the ceiling. If you didn't think that fact was exciting well that's too bad because I thought it was.

I was glad to get civil rights day off so that we/I could ....... do homework. Yes folks, that's what I did. In my defense I'm not the only one who thinks like that. Most engineers seem to think the same thoughts. In fact I remember asking people what their plans were for thanksgiving last year and just about all the engineers said they planned to use the spare time to catchup on homework. One guy told me a horror story about how he got up at 7 on Thanksgiving morning to work on a project, then he stopped for an hour to eat dinner, then got right back at it til he went to bed a night. What a life! I can't wait to be out of school.

Sara's job has been pretty chill for this first week of training. They seem to have done a lot of personality tests so everyday I hear stories of some new self experiment she has had to conduct every day. One day she drew a happy little pig, one day she did a bunch of puzzles, etc. Sounds like a fun job to me. My job of working on the mill is going well. Last week tried to drill through a copper bar but the bar just heated up and made the bit slip. We figured it was probably because we didn't have the coolant setup yet. But, since we don't want the coolant to make a big mess we needed to make some type of enclosure to stop us from getting unwanted showers when the mill runs by computer program. So we extended the drain table my boss made for the mill and then basically put a shower curtain around it. We painted the table and pvc tubing that holds up the curtain so I have affectionately dubbed it the lean green milling machine. Catchy huh? When it's all done I'll post some pictures.

A Job For Sara

BIG NEWS, after lots and lots of job applications Sara (me) has found a full time job. I am now employed by Convergys. Its another call center job which I am fine with. Funny story, after the interview they said they would get back to me within two days. But they didn't call for a week, they called on the very day I decided that I wasn't really interested in call center jobs anymore. But I wasn't going to pass on a job opporunity so I said yes and I think it will be a really good thing. I get to be around people again and helping customers which is what I really enjoy. I am excited to have work and this will be the highest paying job I have ever had and the most hours. So we should be just fine with money from here on out. Its great news for us here in Logan.

sweet sweet hangman

Yesterday we had a delightful family home evening courtesy of Frank and Amy's blog. I have secretly played hangman on their site for quite some time but last night Sara busted me. So we decided to play it for fhe on www.hangman.no. I would highly recommend playing it. There is a two player option which we liked but the one player 'frequently misspelled words' is great as well. Although, I would turn off the music if I did it again. The eep! gets annoying when you retype a letter you've already entered.

Sara almost helped a kid file a claim with his insurance for personal bodily injuy. She was driving down main street and turning into wal-mart (so she was in the middle turning lane) and this kid thought he was the bomb and walked right in front of her. Of course he had to jaywalk across 2 other lanes first. She had to slam on the brakes to not hit him and when that happened the kid just looked at her and laughed. What an idiot. I hope he gets hit someday... by me.... accidentally.

Last Tuesday I setup our new email accounts for cadanswer. Up til now our emails have been yournamecadanswer@gmail.com ie: mine is fredcadanswer@gmail.com. It looks a lot more professional to have fred@cadanswer.com. Since we own cadanswer.com we could do that using google apps. I got it to work and everything but about half the company is refusing to use it (I can't come up with any other reason for them never having logged in.

Other than that it's just the same old thing around here: work, school, work, sleep, and occasionally eat.

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School is back in session for me. I am still doing both jobs for the time being. Sara has an interview tomorrow for a full time job. I think she will probably get it. We were worried when school started that books would be out of control. We calculated 750.00 if we got all of them used. Somehow I got them for a lot cheaper. A couple of my friends let me borrow their book for free and one guy sold me his thermodynamics book for 40.00 less than the used price at the bookstore.

Last week we went to Mom and Dad's for the first and had a traditional Lillywhite New Year's. The one difference was that we stayed up til midnight. I personally am just about as happy only staying up til 10 or 11 most of the time but the midnight experience was fun. When it turned to midnight (we almost missed it because of an intense game of muggins) we looked towards the church and they fired off some fireworks and that was about it. Keith and Danielle were also there too. In the morning we went Rabbit hunting (not Sara or Danielle of course) and got 4 bunnies. I have yet to cook them because I haven't decided which recipe sounds most delicious to me. I know this is highly unlikely but if anyone has a rabbit recipe send it on to me.

Saturday and Sunday we went to Kaysville to see the Major's. We had a sushi party at Sara's aunt and uncle's house and other relatives. I had already tried wasabi once in my life and didn't want the headache I remembered but Sara tried it and was on fire for a bit. Her aunt and uncle's house was huge. Amazingly huge. I would compare it to Batman's mansion.

Sunday we just hung out and played some games and I had sugarplum dreams about school not starting the following day. And that's about all I have to say about that.