So here's a tip

So here is a tip for all of you out there, when people make safety recommendations take them seriously. I spent Sunday working on my jeep now that it has warmed back up and I spent most of the day modifying the transfer skid plate that came off of my buddies ’05 to fit my 97 Jeep. Anyway the point is that after cutting a bracket off of the skid I went to grind the area down and figured, “it is a small area no need for goggles”, boy was I wrong. 99.9% of the time I wear a face shield when i do grinding and now I think I that will go up 0.1%. You see it took no time for a piece of grinding to find it’s way into my left eye. After two nights of almost no sleep (the eye and the fact we still do not have air in the apartment) I decided to take a sick day and go to the ophthalmologist and it took her less than two seconds to find the steel in my eye. Unfortunately it took a little longer to remove it, then came the dremel to clean out the rust. bottom line is I now have a “hole” in my eye instead of a piece of steel and I get to put eye drops and ointment in 3-4 times a day. like the subject says, my advice is when tools (or anything) comes with safety instructions take heed.

It's not just the blog...

that gets ignored sometimes. It took me nearly 16 months to get around to hanging my diploma and PE License atmy office. Really the only thing that sparked it was the fact that I graduated from the LDA and they gave me a desktop award and a wall plaque, I know it seems redundant to me too. Anyway, I figured since they gave me both I would put the desk top award on my desk and the wall plaque on the wall (sometimes i have good ideas). In the process of putting the wall cert up I decided to go ahead and hang the other two recognitions for insignificant events in my career. So there you go tronster, while I may not be halfway around the world it is not just the blog that gets ignored.

While I am on the subject of work, I just had my mid year review the other day and things went well with that so I guess my job is safe for at least a few days.

Opening Day

Okay it has been a while since my last update, but with good reason. I have moved out of my apartment in Leesburg and into the new place in Reston. I have graduated from the Leadership Development Academy (LDA) at work. I have had a few projects wrap up at work. I am sure if I stop there has been more, but the real point is I have not had much time to do an update. Today I finally slowed up and took the time to enjoy opening day with the Nationals. While the outcome of the game was less than hoped for the overall experience was great. It was the perfect weather for baseball and the seats were great. Unfortunately I forgot my camera (or did I intentionally not take it?), so you will have to make due with the shot from the camera phone. I hope to have more time for updates now. On a side note the new place is great except we still do not have AC! thank goodness it is suppose to be back down in the 50’s the rest of the week!