Posted on my company's intranet yesterday:
Please extend congratulations to JT in the Portland Office for passing the LEED exam. This places JT as the third LEED™ AP in the Northwest office! In addition, JT was just notified that his Washington State License is forthcoming. These accomplishments are very important to the success of the Portland office, as we solidify the World's Best Company's foothold in the Northwest.
Names changed to protect the innocent...;^)
Here's a video to celebrate:
MIA Paper Planes
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Site Visits
As part of my job I have to go to job sites to perform construction services like making sure the curb is at the right height or the bioswale is constructed to our design. This is a screenshot from one of the remote cellular camera the school district has installed at the school construction sites we designed and are performing construction site services at. I pulled up the photo during time during the weekly meeting, my little grey car can be seen under the weather stats (I expanded - so cool!). It is really cool, you can have the website do a time lapse video, I need to perfect it because right now it will only do one day of photos, I want to see a few weeks.
This is a photo of a detention pond for the stormwater runoff, the water will hang out here, to settle out any sediment before it is released off-site, they also put little growies in the pond to make it like a real pond. The green stuff is hydroseed: a mixture of grass seeds, fertilizer, cellulose fiber (newspaper), and mulch - all of this is specified by the specifications and construction drawings including the amount of coverage and weed purity.
This is great! An up close picture of a brown praying mantis that I spotted while walking around. It is sitting on a traffic delineator. The close-up look at hydroseed is also neat.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Creamy or Chunky Shaving Cream
I'm out of shaving cream and so I thought I would try using peanut butter to shave with, I heard it could be done - I probably read it in Men's Health or something. I only have Adam's Chunky Peanut Butter, as you can probably guess it wasn't good, the chunks gummed up the blades of the Mach3. I had to run the blade under water longer and use my finger to clear the blades and the little rubber ridges.
I got the job done, but I'm gonna have to get some of the real stuff, makes me think about Burma Shave. An English teacher in middle school would have a book of old Burma Shave road sign advertisements and read them to the class. I can't remember any of them except that they were catchy and they ended with "Try Burma Shave."
I don't think I smell like peanut butter, but how hot would it be if I did? ;^)
I got the job done, but I'm gonna have to get some of the real stuff, makes me think about Burma Shave. An English teacher in middle school would have a book of old Burma Shave road sign advertisements and read them to the class. I can't remember any of them except that they were catchy and they ended with "Try Burma Shave."
I don't think I smell like peanut butter, but how hot would it be if I did? ;^)
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Un ano adia & Office Envy
It's been a roughly a year that I've been in Oregon and at my job. I love both. This year has been great! I've met a ton of cool people and had a lot of fun.
I've been experiencing office envy for a while. I've gone to a number of other engineering and architectural offices, a lot of them I really, really liked. The things I liked about them were their office layouts, location, conference rooms, location, amenities, and location. I would love to be downtown, I would love to have a bigger conference room, I would love to have a view, and I would like to do more things with my coworkers. The picture was taken at local firm that is having a chess tournament after work, they have beer and snacks and the winner gets a Wii, how cool would that be. We don't have enough people, much less anyone that would be able to stay given that most of my coworkers have familial obligations. I did get cake for my one year anniversary at work. And, we do have 2 microwaves.
I've been experiencing office envy for a while. I've gone to a number of other engineering and architectural offices, a lot of them I really, really liked. The things I liked about them were their office layouts, location, conference rooms, location, amenities, and location. I would love to be downtown, I would love to have a bigger conference room, I would love to have a view, and I would like to do more things with my coworkers. The picture was taken at local firm that is having a chess tournament after work, they have beer and snacks and the winner gets a Wii, how cool would that be. We don't have enough people, much less anyone that would be able to stay given that most of my coworkers have familial obligations. I did get cake for my one year anniversary at work. And, we do have 2 microwaves.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Rough Draft - Kona Blog
I typed this partial blog on my phone, I will come back and fix typos, grammar, and punctuation. And, add more to it/embed photos. My Hawaii Photos
The flight to the Big Island was decent, I had the seat open next to me, finished a chuck palenhuik 'Diary.' at the Honolulu airport I ran into a coworker, who'd spent the week before me on Kona. Met up with Ritchie stopped at a Safeway to get some grub. I was blown away how they've got pretty much every store,paved roads,and cars we have available in America, its amazing. It rained a ton on the drive back to Ritchie's condo. We had some rum and diet coke, things were going okay until we ran out of coke and had a shot of Jack. I'm not going to go into the foggy details but I woke up with a bandage on my eyebrow, lacerations on my scalp and we needed some resolve carpet claener for the carpet.
Next day hung out for part of the day then went for a run on Alii Drive, tons of tri-athletes were also out running or cycling around training up for the Iron Man happenening in 2 weeks. They were really fit!
Its as good as time as any to talk about the 'fish.' the fish is a plastic fish given to anyone who has gotten riled up by something, it can be a prank or a project related issue. Mr. Daily consistently has the fish, anyone/anything can get his goat. Mr. Daily thought it would be appropriate that dick get the fish since he was in hawaii. I don't know what dick's reaction was when he came back from vacation to find the fish at his desk, but mr. Daily was less than pleased about it, I could hear him grumbling about it. And, someone had tied a congratulations balloon to his chair.
Back to Kona. Drove out to volcano where ritchie's new family has a house. We were jonesing for pizza and found some great pizza in hilo. We bought this movie 'oldboy' at the walmart. About the hawaiian walmarts: they are weird, they are the same as one's in America, I think it was because they were overstaffed that creeped me out even more.
So, 'oldboy' is this crazy korean movie about a guy that's been kidnapped and held in a prison for 15 years, he pretty much goes nuts when he gets out. I'd highly recommend watching it! But, nah, i'm not going to say...
The next morning we watched that one movie alec baldwin and anthony hopkins being lost out in the alaskan wilderness and there is a big grizzly bear that wants to eat them and alec baldwin cheated on anthony hopkins with anthony hopkins wife and tried to shoot and fell into a bear trap and died later just before they were about to be rescued.
The flight to the Big Island was decent, I had the seat open next to me, finished a chuck palenhuik 'Diary.' at the Honolulu airport I ran into a coworker, who'd spent the week before me on Kona. Met up with Ritchie stopped at a Safeway to get some grub. I was blown away how they've got pretty much every store,paved roads,and cars we have available in America, its amazing. It rained a ton on the drive back to Ritchie's condo. We had some rum and diet coke, things were going okay until we ran out of coke and had a shot of Jack. I'm not going to go into the foggy details but I woke up with a bandage on my eyebrow, lacerations on my scalp and we needed some resolve carpet claener for the carpet.
Next day hung out for part of the day then went for a run on Alii Drive, tons of tri-athletes were also out running or cycling around training up for the Iron Man happenening in 2 weeks. They were really fit!
Its as good as time as any to talk about the 'fish.' the fish is a plastic fish given to anyone who has gotten riled up by something, it can be a prank or a project related issue. Mr. Daily consistently has the fish, anyone/anything can get his goat. Mr. Daily thought it would be appropriate that dick get the fish since he was in hawaii. I don't know what dick's reaction was when he came back from vacation to find the fish at his desk, but mr. Daily was less than pleased about it, I could hear him grumbling about it. And, someone had tied a congratulations balloon to his chair.
Back to Kona. Drove out to volcano where ritchie's new family has a house. We were jonesing for pizza and found some great pizza in hilo. We bought this movie 'oldboy' at the walmart. About the hawaiian walmarts: they are weird, they are the same as one's in America, I think it was because they were overstaffed that creeped me out even more.
So, 'oldboy' is this crazy korean movie about a guy that's been kidnapped and held in a prison for 15 years, he pretty much goes nuts when he gets out. I'd highly recommend watching it! But, nah, i'm not going to say...
The next morning we watched that one movie alec baldwin and anthony hopkins being lost out in the alaskan wilderness and there is a big grizzly bear that wants to eat them and alec baldwin cheated on anthony hopkins with anthony hopkins wife and tried to shoot and fell into a bear trap and died later just before they were about to be rescued.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Max Encounter Last Night
I was heading back home from a class downtown last night, waiting at the Max stop at Yamhill and 1st Streets in downtown Pdx. I'm waiting for the yellow line train and up walks this black guy talking to his friend and carrying a 24-pack of beer.
He says "You look homeless as a mutha-f---!" real loud. I thought he was talking to me, but then I realized he was talking to two homeless kids loitering around the kiosk.
Then, he's like "You want some beer, man?" He drops the nearly empty box of Budweisers on the ground and those homeless guys grab a couple cans each.
After all of the cans of beer have been distributed the black kid and his friend get on the blue line train (to Gresham). I'm just standing there for a bit and look over at one of the guys and he says "Hey, wassup." I say "Nothing." His friend says "cool it, man." Then the other guy says "hey, you wanna beer." I say "Nah." His friend says "It's okay if you have one, you're wife won't even find out about it, just drink it quick and then get some mouthwash or chew on a stick of gum." "No thanks," I said and walked across the platform to look at something.
He says "You look homeless as a mutha-f---!" real loud. I thought he was talking to me, but then I realized he was talking to two homeless kids loitering around the kiosk.
Then, he's like "You want some beer, man?" He drops the nearly empty box of Budweisers on the ground and those homeless guys grab a couple cans each.
After all of the cans of beer have been distributed the black kid and his friend get on the blue line train (to Gresham). I'm just standing there for a bit and look over at one of the guys and he says "Hey, wassup." I say "Nothing." His friend says "cool it, man." Then the other guy says "hey, you wanna beer." I say "Nah." His friend says "It's okay if you have one, you're wife won't even find out about it, just drink it quick and then get some mouthwash or chew on a stick of gum." "No thanks," I said and walked across the platform to look at something.
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