so soon?

An unprecedented 2 posts in a month (I think)?! CRAZY!

I suppose that I should offer a little more insight into my job.
My job description says that I am a "Process Flow Analyst," though I may have made that up a little bit too. I am essentially a glorified detective. The president or production manager will assign me a production line to analyze, and then I look at the machinery, the people, and the flow of parts and such to figure out how to make it run more efficiently. Then I get cost estimates for what each project should cost and compare that with how much the company would save in variable costs (electricity, labor, downtime, etc.) Based on that, I can determine how beneficial it would be to invest in the idea.

So far, it's been pretty good. The machines are run painfully inefficiently, so I've found oppurtunities to save the company a total of over $550k with a total initial investment of $65k with no reoccuring costs. Not bad for my first time doing this stuff.

This weekend I have a wedding to go to. One of my high school classmates is getting married. People are getting married like crazy these days! Yikes! I guess that it means that I'm getting older, I suppose. Bummer.

Although, I haven't seen my family for well over a month. It will be nice to see them again. Apparently, they basically built a big deck on the back of our house in two or three days. I think that these are the dangers when you have three guys (that like to do things with their hands) get bored. There are pictures on Dad's facebook page here.

I have also rekindled my love for "How I Met Your Mother." I feel like the show has a very divided audience in that you either love it or hate it. As stupid and occasionally raunchy as it it (though never in action, only in words) it covers a lot of issues and makes for some good tv if you really get into it.

"It's gonna be LEGEN -- wait for it -- and I hope you're not lactose intolerant because the second half of that word is DAIRY!"
-Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris)