Rock on the Range in pictures

Now I've seen it all

Today, when I got to Ricardo, Joe asked me if I'd heard the "big news" before I even had a chance to boot up my computer.

Of course I hadn't heard of anything, but apparently, an hour or two before I got to Ricardo, there was an "emergency" company-wide meeting to announce that Jeremy was let go. Immediately assuming his old role of President of the company, will be Dean Harlow.

Well now I've seen it all.

I really liked Jeremy. He was very personable, took time to talk to me each time I bumped into him, and he was a family man. From the technology viewpoint of this new president, Dean is more of a business and management guy than an engineering guy like Jeremy was.

I tell ya, the headquarters is corrupting our company. First, they demote most of our VPs, then they replace Claude's position and demote him, and now this.

Sometimes, I'm glad I'm just an intern.

Punctuation at its best

An English professor wrote the words:
"A woman without her man is nothing"
on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly.

All of the males in the class wrote:
"A woman, without her man, is nothing."

All of the females in the class wrote:
"A woman: without her, man is nothing."

Punctuation is powerful!

My eventful week in pictures

Arts and scraps

This past Saturday, D and I went to do some volunteer work at a craft store in Detroit. The store has some sort of sentimental memories to me because my dad used to take me and Tim to this kind of craft store when we were little. Basically, they get tons of donations of overflow materials from all kinds of companies (like sponge pieces, bottle caps, buttons, unassembled paper milk cartons). Then, you can get a small paper bag and fill it up as much as you can for a few dollars, and voila! A bag of artsy materials for a kid to create to his or her heart's content.

Tim and I used to "invent" all kinds of things. I remember one time, I filled my bag up with green nail polish remover sponges (the kind you stick your finger in and swish around), and I glued plastic eyeballs on them and yarn mouths on them and stuffed the little whole with cloth for the nose to make little characters out of.

Anyway, despite how cold and early it was, it was actually a lot of fun! We organized, cleaned, fixed, and decorated their "utility" room (I think that's what it was called). It was a room purely for all their die cut machines and book binding machines. I guess during the summers, they have day craft camps for kids and these are some of the stations provided to them.

Here is a picture of a box I made into a holder for all their scissors, markers, pens, and miscellaneous stuff, and the other picture is of a die cut machine with a handle that Dusan fixed.