The summer is drawing to a close, hallelujah. My job hasn't killed me yet, but there's still a week left so I won't speak too soon. Last week a guy running the machine I run lost the end of his finger doing something stupid, but it's the same stupid thing all of us operators do to get stubborn parts into the machine. But fortunately I don't work in that area anymore, cus I passed my welding test and I'm officially a welder now. The started me out doing tig welding, which is easier than mig welding. My boss is a big black guy with corn rows and every now and then he refers to me as "my tigger", which makes me happy, especially cus he doesn't get why it's funny. Basically I babysit a giant robotic arm the size of a small house and clean up its welds when it's done. I also change its tips when they get dirty and clean the spatter off its dies. They've got me on third shift, but since that's only 8 hours (before I was working 10-12 hour shifts) I've been staying over for a couple hours in the morning and helping at my old job, which involves lifting 40-50 lb parts onto a air check table and then off again into a rack. This is by far the hardest I've ever worked in my life, and the longest hours. I have very little trouble getting to sleep at night.
Purdue plans are going smoothly. I've signed my lease with my new roommate (although danny will always be number one in my heart), and I'm putting together first semester classes. I'm going through my old control systems textbook and actually learning all the things that got replaced by a crap semester project by one V. Diddy, because that's just the kind of classes I will be taking.
The funding I got is a teaching assistantship, so I will be working for a professor apprx. 20 hours a week and they give me a complete tuition waiver and a stipend to live off of. I'll have to budget pretty carefully, but it's not too bad. Especially if I can get a sweet summer job next summer. My car doesn't need replacing quite yet, but I think it's getting there. I was hoping I'd have enough from this job to buy something better, but it doesn't look like I'll quite get there. I could buy something, but it wouldn't be much and there's such a huge risk when you start scraping the bottom of the used car barrel.
In other news, I got a cell phone! It's a motorolla KRZR, so you're welcome for the business slinky, and if I have problems I'm complaining to you and holding you accountable to know everything about my phone. I haven't really played with it yet, haven't had time. I'm on AT&T/cingular, and I have free nights and weekends and free long distance. See facebook for number.
3 comments:
Well you can call me anytime on you phone cause I'm on ATT as well. mobile to mobile minutes rock. As for running support for your phone I'll do what I can but I run the infrastructure not the phone. Glad to hear about the assistance-ship. Not sure if you had that already and I just forgot.
O yeah we need to try to get more people on this thing. It's tied in with your gmail account so it shouldn't hard.
I'm on ATT as well! I invited about 7 more people today and am working on finding out how to email everyone whenever a new post arrives. Puppet got it to work on the V1 blog but I can't find the option.
ok, just kidding, my address is
2550 Yeager Rd, APT 18-07
W. Lafayette, IN 47906
they told me apartment 22 but that is the main office here, and they're getting tired of getting my mail.
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