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The trouble with keeping online journals is that people read it. Course, I read other people’s too… Well, on bad days, it seems like I’m the only person who hates work.
I don’t know why this is surprising, all my friends are either working dream jobs or out rock climbing. I’m the only one who works at a place where being called to move 50 lbs lead blankets for 3 hours in a row is a complete possibility for at least once a year.
Today I wrote an angry email to my boss, then I took a couple of long breaths and discarded it. I’m only having a bad day, no need to broadcast it (like I am right now).

Feeling a lot better now.
I remember the first day of the outage, I was really in hell. It’s not that I had a tough job or anything, I just didn’t want to imagine going through another month of the same thing.
Truthfully, maintenance work is mind blogging. I don’t mean any disrespect to maintenance people, it takes lots of skills and knowledge to be able to fix just about everything in the plant, but it’s not for me. The endless sitting around, the battling between departments, the rush rush rush then stop before jobs even begin. Anyway, it’s just for a month (hopefully).
Warren sat me down yesterday and asked me what I’m doing there. I feel like laughing, Jay’s done a really good job putting me there. Seriously, now I can at least re-charge a little bit and even get some overtime money before going back to my group.

I’m still not sure how I got assigned to the WIN team this outage.
It’s apparent that they didn’t request me, none of the supervisors has any idea what to do with me. So they gave me a desk, a chair, and a computer then left me alone. All day today I worked on my ARs and I was not bothered during the 12-hour shift.
Our group sent out 3 people to maintenance (Howard, Joe, and I), so it doesn’t seem like I was sent to the WIN team to meet quota either…
Anyway, mystery all around.

Family vacations are impossible! There is still 4 months before the vacation and they are already driving me crazy.
Jennifer and I have gotten this travel arrangement down to an art. Fly from different cities, fly from the same city, meet somewhere half way and fly the last leg together… whichever way, we can at least find ourselves at the same airport around the same time. But with Mom, Dad, and Jason involved, things seem a million times more complicated.
I drew up the itinerary almost a month ago, telling everyone SPECIFICALLY which flight to book. Everyone told me that they got it… and now, aside from my flight, Jennifer’s flight, Jason’s flight back to my place, nothing is booked. Let’s see, there’s still Dad’s flight from Taipei to San Francisco, the three of them from San Francisco to Jackson Hole, then Mom and Dad back to San Francisco from Jackson Hole, and finally Dad going back to Taipei from San Francisco. Urg!!!!! I can bang my head against the wall.

Dilemma: Kim’s been giving me documents to review with considerable shorter deadlines than before. Usually, you give your reviewer about 50% of the prepare time. For example, if something took you 2 days to prepare, then you give your reviewer 1 day to review. Lately he’s been giving me about a quarter of the preparation time. What’s even more frustrating is that he has rejected almost every single document I handed him to review since the beginning of the year. Not only does he rejects it, he usually laughs in my face and says (with a smile) “No way!”, “I don’t have time to review that”, or “By this Friday? Are you kidding?”
I’ve been telling myself that I should just do the same to him next time he has something for me to review, but all his documents are quite interesting. Urg!
Anyway, as interesting as this ICP is, I couldn’t bring myself to look through it. So here I am, mere hours before the deadline, sitting at home thinking that I’ll just finish this off while watching Friends or something. Well, the best revenge would be to give him back the ICP with so many comments that he wouldn’t be able to fix by due date. But it doesn’t matter, since he never really incorporate more than a token amount of my comments anyway. In the end, he always argues through them and tell me that it doesn’t matter.

I was just checking out my favorite never-watched show, LazyTown.
I’ve only seen fragments of a couple of episodes at Glen and Katina’s, but I’m totally mesmerized. It is such an awesome show! First of all, there is Julianna Rose Mauriello, who plays Stephanie, wears a pink wig, and couldn’t possibly be more adorable. Then there’s Magnus Scheving, who plays Sportacus, and I come to find out is actually the creator of LazyTown. He has a whole company built on this show, called LazyTown Entertainment.
I had never figured out why the show is called LazyTown, then suddenly it dawned on me… LazyTown Entertainment promotes fitness!!
Here’s a clip if you have no idea of what I’m talking about:

Lately I’ve developed a weird craving for avocados, I just have to have one or two when I come home. I cut it in half and just scoop it up raw, and every time I eat one I always think: gosh, what is it about this fruit that made me want to eat it in the first place?? See, I’m not a big fan of the avocado taste.
Today, I found that there’s almost 300 calories in an avocado. 300!!! (That’s 3 light beers!) Forget it! I’m never buying these again.

I met the city’s fire marshall today. He told me that I’m crazy and beautiful.
Fair enough, one balances out the other. Although I feel that both are compliments

If I’ve linked up your blog, then I read it periodically and often… Just so you know, I am cyber-stalking you
Talking about stalking, here’s something:
A couple of weeks ago, some of us went to Andrews University to give a talk for their Engineers Week. Marta from work asked for pictures so she can put it in the company’s newsletter, so I put the pictures in the shared space and forgot all about it.
Well, late last week, an Ops friend of mine asked me if I had gone to Andrews lately. I told him yes and asked if he had read about it in the newsletter. He said no… hm… either he’s joking or he’s been through my files under shared space. (Why would anyone go through files in shared space??? Usually you get tons of walkdown photos of pipes and valves and other big round things…) This is also the guy who told me that I’m totally worth a $10K engagement ring

Our group got a new hire, a little older than I am but has never worked at a nuke plant before.
So on Friday afternoon, Jay told him to tag along while I work on Doug’s ECC (since Doug’s still out). It turned out that Jay wants the ECC done before Monday, which is fine since it’s practically done and I have no problem finishing it up over the weekend. So I told this guy that he can stay home on the weekend and I’ll just talk to him about what I did on Monday.
Here’s what he said to me, “that’s fine with me, I think you’re just suppose to show me how things are done.”
WHAT!?!?!? I’m SUPPOSE to do something for you!?!?!?!?! You just got hired! I’m not SUPPOSE to do anything FOR you! You’re a burden to me! It’ll take me an hour to organize a way to explain the complexity of a nuke mod to you, and another hour for you to realize you’re not going to understand it! I’m so furious that I’m still steaming right now.
SO said that I have inferiority complex and I don’t disagree. I think people trample over me so many times, and the idea of a newbie doing that (or even THINKING about doing that) just makes me go berserk.