Tell your friend to try to go to the Oriente--the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle on the other side of the Andes.
Have you ever been to Sewickley? It's kind of an Eden without much sunshine.
I may sign up this year for the Colony Zones meet, which will take me past the Fairfax Cryobank where once I offered my 965,000,000 swimmers for sale, but no offers.
I am a Engineer in electronics and I will tell you a story about Engineers:
An Engineer died and he went to the doors of Paradise. Known it is that the Engineers by their honesty always go there. Saint Peter looked for in his file, but lately a little disorganized and it did not find it in the pile of papers, so it said to him: "It moan, you are not in lists...". So that the Engineer went to the door of hell and they gave him shelter and lodging immediately. Just a short time it happened and the Engineer got tired to suffer the miseries of hell, and he was put to design and to construct improvements. With the passage of time, already they had ISO 9000, ashes monitoring systems, air conditioned, toilets with drainage, electrical stairs, electronic equipment, telecommunications networks, programs of predictive maintenance, systems of visual control, digital systems of fire detection, thermostats, etc. and the Engineer became of very good reputation. Certain day God called to the Devil by telephone and with suspicion tone asked him:
(God)"and that..... how are things in hell"
(Devil)"We are hell well! We have ISO 9000, ashes monitoring systems, air conditioned, toilets with drainage, electrical stairs, electronic equipment, Internet, etc. By the way I will give you my email addres, it is: thehappydevil@inferno.com. And I do not know which will be the next surprise of the Engineer ".
(God)"What, WHAT. DO YOU HAVE an Engineer there? That is an error, never must have arrived there an Engineer. The engineers always go to paradise, that is written and resolute already. Send him here immediately ".
(Devil)"Not even crazy. I like to have an Engineer of plant in the organization... and I am going away to be eternally with him ".
(God)"Send him to me or...... TO YOU I WILL DEMAND!!...". And the Devil, with the cloudy look in his eyes by the tremendous outburst of laughter that loosen, answered to him God:
(Devil)"Ah Yes? ......please do that... and by curiosity... FROM WHERE YOU ARE GOING TO GET A LAWYER " if all of them are here...
a chemist (hence my signature line :D )
who really really wants to be a forensic chemist (i'll get there someday!)
with the resurrection of this thread, i feel i need to update "what i do", since i have changed jobs since this thread started :)
i now work in quality assurance for a biotech company. which means, no, i don't play with petri dishes (i wish i did!), but i do push paper all day long. mostly to make sure people do their jobs right, so that when new products get to clinical trials, no one dies. at least not from our products...
so yes, i still am a science geek.
and i like it that wayl
:D
Just curious. What do you do for a living?
Last post of the day, I think I am up to 14 or 15... so when I am not posting, I work for Ahold, who owns Giant/Stop & Shop supermarkets and foodservice distributor U.S. Foodservice. Managed the Frozen Bakery category until August (while I was with USF), and was brought on to Ahold to support joint sourcing efforts between USF and the retail side (bids, analysis, etc.).
One of my legacies with USF is I worked on a cookie project, and became known as the Cookie Monster. Muppet... Cookie Monster. How fitting. :rolleyes:
And yes, I get to eat a lot of good, free food.
I like the joke posted above. I am a mechanical engineer. I design automotive performance parts, specifically turbochargers. Right now I happen to be preparing for an ISO 9001 audit. I spent my day working on ISO documentation. Reading joke that just made the day.
I'm a college student (chemistry major) and hoping to become an art conservationist. This term I'm taking a chemistry lab course and spending almost four hours a day in the lab, plus having to keep up with my other classes.
Degree is in Mo(lecular) Biology.
For 10 years served as VP Human Resources (Evil Director of HR) for IT Consulting Company.
Owned own HR consulting company for the past 3 years.
Did a tad bit of part time swim coaching off and on since age 18.
MUCH PREFER to be the swimmer. It's easier.
I had a hard time telling swimmers what to do when I needed to work on it myself. :laugh2:
I used to be an astronomer. Drew paychecks from the US National Observatory (in Tucson), University of Hawaii, the Max Planck Institut in Germany, the University of Wyoming and the Navy at various times during my 40 years of employment. It was fun and kept me from ever having to hold a real, worthwhile job.
Now, I don't do anything but train, eat good food and drink excellent CA wines.
Where did I go wrong?
-- mel
