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Incidentally, I've come to believe the only thing Iger ever actually did was buy other IP. And not all of those decisions have proven as beneficial as many would have you believe. I still don't think the company has recouped the cost of buying either Lucasfilm or Fox. And I doubt it ever will, at the rate it's going.
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There was one gent who got a bit angry with me. Although more like angry with himself. I took advantage of his inattentiveness when the light turned green to get over in front of him and accelerate. He made a big show of also accelerating, to catch up and cut me off by getting over before I could. The joke was on him, however, in that I tend to stick to the far right on the interstate, since I'm only on for a very short distance.
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I'm hoping to have a check from Accounts Payable today to send my PE License Application to Florida. I didn't hear from anyone on Friday that my check was ready. That could mean one of two things: (a) the young lady who handles the licensing forgot to tell AP the check was needed, or (b) someone in management told them not to cut the check (and that's where my mistrust and/or slight paranoia comes into play).
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And brought back some happy memories. When I was a wee lad (before the dark times), my parents bought a house in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. We spent at least one summer fixing it up, then many years using it as a little place to get away from the cesspool that is New Orleans. Good times.
Anyway, during that first year or two, whenever we would leave my parents would swing through McDonalds and I'd get a vanilla milk shake.
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That's how it goes, though. You take the cards you're dealt and make the best hand you can with them. Sometimes you get lucky, and some new cards get dealt, often unexpectedly. That's how my wife and I came to be. The Universe isn't always fair or nice, but it is interesting.
I'm not one that tends to boohoo or get hysterical when things don't go my way. Maybe a bit of grumpiness, but I usually bounce back pretty quick. I just kind of try to roll with the punches as best I can.
Would that more people could do the same.
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Look at me, getting all philosophical and reminiscing.
Anyway, since I finished The Gentlemen, I needed something else to watch. Since it's the beginning of the month, I checked HBO to see what was new. Found Split, the second movie in Shamalama's superhuman trilogy. Great movie, with an incredible performance by James McAvoy.
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We're also going to arrange for them to come out and do a lunch and learn with us. They've got two items of interest for that.
One is a pigging valve, which is a valve with a door on the side so you can put a pipeline pig into the line. You don't see a lot of those, mostly because it limits the size of the pig. It can be dead useful in certain scenarios, though. Especially when you're working with limited space.
The other item was a zero-emissions control system that can run up to eight different valves or serve as an emergency shut down. It's got a solar panel and battery backup.
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Ugh. This lack of projects to work on is really starting to make the work day boring as hell. I had a bunch of self-training stuff lined up, but I've worked through most of it. What little I have left is just reading through old specs or waiting on other people to give me the up to date specs to read through.
Like I said, boring.
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Hehehe...
There's been some interesting stuff in the news today. If my stomach weren't giving me some trouble, and my jaw wasn't bothering me so much, I'd be chowing down on popcorn while watching the fireworks.
I just hope it doesn't negatively affect some of the projects my company has potentially coming down the line.