Fun weekend

Jen and I have had a pretty fun-filled weekend. Friday night we went to a Christian music concert at the Pepsi Colloseum. There were five bands in total, but the two headliners were Toby Mac and Newsboys. They were awesome! Jen's brother Philip and his daughter Nicole went with us and then stayed the night.

Yesterday Jen and I went to Geist Christian Church to see our friend Mark Briley get ordained as a minister. That was really neat. He and his wife, Carrie, also had their new daughter Morgan dedicated to the church. You might remember that Mark and Carrie sang at our wedding. There were lots of people from our old church, Third Christian Church, there to see Mark as well. It was fun to see them.

A well-trained monkey

As the title implies, I'm beginning to feel like a well-trained monkey. I think I mentioned that I've started a new position at Rolls-Royce. It's not a promotion or anything, but it is a position with more responsibility. It's also a position that has very little to do with my previous work for Rolls. That means I've got a whole lot to learn.

I've been spending half my days since Christmas taking an online training course for a computer aided drafting program called UniGraphics. That's four hours a day of clicking and dragging, clicking and dragging, clicking and... ugh. I'm taking an 8 hour class at the training center on the same thing all of this week, too.

I've also started an 18-week class that meets for two hours every Tuesday on GD&T. GD&T is Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing. It basically just lets you read all of the shorthand notations on drawings and prints. These let you know exactly how the part is made and what its tolerances are. It's actually very useful.

Finally, I'm also taking two classes at IUPUI this semester. The first one is Database Systems and the second one is Introduction to Distributed Systems. I won't even try to explain those because, trust me, you don't care.

So you see, I really am going to be a well-trained monkey. Instead of just a monkey.

Colts..... Ugh.

Well, it's been almost a week now and I'm just getting over the Colts loss. I've sat down to blog about it a couple times but I just didn't know what to say. Tragic. Sniff.

Seriously, though, what a crap game. I watched it with a couple buddies of mine and had a good time up until we lost. I think this was the Colts year to win it all. Next year they probably won't be as good.

Oh well, I guess that pretty much frees up the next couple of weekends for me.

Death to the Patriots!

Well, I'm sitting here watching the Patriots getting their butts handed to them by Denver. And I'm loving it.

As you may know, the Patriots have been the bane of Indianapolis' existence over the past few years. Well, now they're gone. Yes!

Now if only Indy can win tomorrow I'll be a happy man.

Yea Capitalism!

I've been pretty much obsessed with selling stuff online the last couple days. I had mentioned that I put up my camera on eBay for auction. Well, the final price paid was $97. Isn't that awesome? I never thought it would get that high.

Anyway, now I've been selling lots of other stuff on either eBay or Amazon Amazon has a higher commission, but you get to set a fixed price and only pay if you complete the sale. Ebay, on the other hand, has lower fees but carries the risk of a possible low selling price. You definitely will make more using eBay. Unfortunately, for things like textbooks Amazon is a better resource. Pick your poison I guess.

It's kind of fun to sell stuff. It's kind of like an online garage sale, except people usually pay more for stuff. All in all, you've gotta love capitalism.

P.S. Jen doesn't know it yet, but all of my old stuff that I'm selling is going toward an Xbox 360. Mmmmmmmm... gaming goodness.

Digital Camera

I just got our new digital camera in the mail. It's a Canon 450 with 5.0 Megapixel resolution, 3X zoom, and just general digital goodness. It's small enough that I can't even notice it sitting in my pocket. It's a sweet little piece of electronics. I'm pretty psyched.

This means that I'm trying my hand at selling my old camera on ebay. I haven't sold anything on ebay before, so we'll see how it goes. I'm expecting to get around $60 or $70 for it. That's what other cameras like mine have been going for. If you're interested just click here.

Long Overdue...

Okay, I realize that I'm severely delinquint on my postings. I'm also severely delinquint on my laundry, dishes, cleaning, oil changes, thank-you's, and anything else that requires moving off of my oh-so-comfortable couch or taking my eyes off of my oh-so-enthralling television.

You see, I came down with a case of the holiday lazies, a rare disease that requires absolute apathy for a period of at least a week. Luckily I've now recovered and will be joining the rest of society again.

I've been moved out of my funk by my new job. I've moved from my old heat-transfer position to the design group. Basically, instead of telling people how hot things are I'll be deciding how parts look and how they'll get made. Then I'll be asking my old workmates how hot those things I just designed are. It's going to be a much more fast-paced position. I'm certainly not going to have any spare time, which is a good thing.

Anyway, I know I still need to post some info about our trip to Rome. I was waiting for the pictures we took on our regular camera to come back. Hopefully I'll get some info up in the next couple of days.