The Demon Werx

How many times in life are you given choices or situations that when you first approach them they look good, a serious change but still very good, and so you do it. I did that recently and its working out very well, I am still getting used to this change because its a huge one. Going from one background and breaking into another is difficult. A process that makes you grow most often is not a “pleasant” or easy process, but if it makes you grow and expand your horizons (and doesn’t kill you) its going to be worth it in some way. I think the challenge is to find that “some way” and find the joy in the success.

In the event that opportunity leads to failure there are still things to be learned from failure. Failure gives you at minimum an idea of what not to try the next time you set about to accomplish the task you failed at.

In work and life a way to go about things when things need to be taken care of is to be there to get “it” done. Life is probably a little more challenging to define what “it” is versus work where “it” resembles at least something.

~Paul

Ammon [8:58 AM]:
i’m gonna order some tea
Paul [8:58 AM]:
ok
Ammon [8:58 AM]:
and some sort of contraption to handle loose tea
Ammon [8:59 AM]:
(which i have never dealt with before)
Ammon [8:59 AM]:
should be intersting
Ammon [8:59 AM]:
why you ask?
Ammon [8:59 AM]:
because the loose tea is picked…by MONKEYS
Paul [8:59 AM]:
so this will be tea picked by monkeys?
Ammon [9:00 AM]:
yes
Paul [9:00 AM]:
is it expensive?
Ammon [9:00 AM]:
i guess…maybe a little
Ammon [9:00 AM]:
but it’s picked by MONKEYS
Paul [9:00 AM]:
yay aids
Ammon [9:01 AM]:
aids?
Ammon [9:01 AM]:
not grown from monkeys, picked by monkeys
Paul [9:02 AM]:
so its transported from monkeys?
Ammon [9:02 AM]:
i hate you
Paul [9:02 AM]:
rofl

It is quite exciting to be involved in something that is sizeable and watch it complete. It is interesting to go back through the series of events leading up to completion and build a timeline of those events.

I do this for work, I go through and look at what happend with an event and the culmination of events that I took part in related to the event. I am supposed to approach this as a 3rd party, non-biased, observer. My dilema is not with other people but with myself. As I “walk” through the events as I recreate them I realized that I was in part a driving force for a breakdown in communication.

Before I start ragging on myself to hard I will gladly admit it was an honest mistake and illustrates to me the difference between email and verbal communication.

I am living and learning, it is exciting.

~Paul

There is a dream out there (it’s getting closer now) that has been a fight to achieve. Well last night it got a little closer to realizing! We purchased a laptop, a Toshiba Satellite (2gb ram, 1.6ghz core 2 duo, HD-DVD, nice sound setup), for the wife last night.

This dream, with the help of some cables, will allow her to compose and record music at home. We got her a Piano, microphone, a device allowing a piano and mic to be connected and recorded on a computer!We were just missing the computer! Well now we have one!

In the future when this takes off we will be getting a monster Mac Pro (*drools*) to do the producing and mixing on… sadly that was Far Far away from the budget.

Music is good!

~Paul

So the Wife kicks off a brilliant plan to have a nice big meal with plenty of leftovers.

I need to find what kind of meat she actually bought but it reminded me of something between a monster london broil and a very tender roast. She made this massive thing of potatoes and then got the meat all seasoned up for the grill. We thought we’d have a problem with the BBQ running out of gas with the meat half cooked, thankfully that was not an issue. It was Great! Some parts were medium rare (my favorite) and the rest was about medium (I suppose being the optimum welness of the cut of meat).

Good food makes for good meals. And my lunch will probably be consumed here early for a brunch.

~Paul

We took the Roo (2.5rs) into the shop the other day and got some bad news. The clutch is going out and needs to be replaced, kinda sucks. I was told with parts and labor it’s going to be around $1500. Yeah, not a pretty penny but a lot of ugly ones.

While I was dropping off the car waiting to get picked up by the wife I was able to take a peek at the new STi they have out. I guess there were 5-6 “premiers” that were shipped west of the Mississippi river and Scottsdale got 3 of them. The reason I am blogging about them is because I love my car but there are a few major points they are lacking in design and this new STi doesn’t have the major one and that is frameless windows. (Mozilla doesn’t agree on the word frameless) They have a frame that encloses the window so it doesn’t get sucked into the car or with a rain and heat combination fuse to the rubber seal of the roof.

That new STi is Hot! If it drives like the general manager of the dealership says it does it’s a very hot car that is truly a sleeper. I should have taken pictures of it but I don’t think I had my cell phone with me at the time (my work phone, but who wants car pics on that). From what the guy said the car drives with the edge that previous STi had but has the comfort to compete with the Evo. It will be interesting to see how it turns out because they did a major change to the look, its a hatchback!!!.

More on this beauty later!

~Demon