Olympics, Life, and Overtime

So lets see, I’ve apparently been busy, or something. I’m really liking my new position at work; it is a good fit for me. I have recently spent a good deal of time watching Olympic events, I love the swimming, basketball, and I can even tolerate the gymnastics. In past Olympics, excluding the 2002 games, I wasn’t really very interested but for some reason this year has been pretty interesting to me. I like the more definite events though like swimming and basketball because it is exact as to who wins; there isn’t really any speculation other than the possibility of cheating. Gymnastics is tough for me because most of the time I don’t even know why one person gets a lower score than another. For example the other day on the men’s gymnastics this guy did a freakin sweet routine on the palm horse (sp?) and his score didn’t seem to reflect it. Plus the women would do these floor routines that appeared to be much more difficult than the Chinese (I am not very knowledgeable as to what is really hard there) but the “difficulty” level was not representative of that appearance. Anyway it has been fun and that Phelps is just amazing, my favorite so far was the relay where they beet the “heavily favored” French by a couple hundredths of a second, awesome finish.

In other news we sold the Durango, it was a nice vehicle for us for the time we had it, but the gas mileage was killing us plus it is nice to have one less car to insure. I fixed the jeep; it took all of about 10 min. I had pretty much already figured out what the problem was. I got this new coil and ignition wires for my birthday a couple of years ago, for the novices out there the coil is the part of the engine that sends electricity to the spark plugs. Anyway, I installed it because it was “high-performance” it was supposed to allow me to gap my spark plugs wider so I would get a larger spark, therefore better combustion, and more power. Well suffice it to say that it didn’t deliver, in fact I put the original one back in after it completely failed and as soon as I put the old one in the engine fired right up. So the moral of the story is “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” or at least make sure to do diligence when purchasing after market “high-performance” parts when you are replacing OEM parts that haven’t failed.

Our front yard looks like a mini-tornado went through it, it’s pretty ugly. The basement has somewhat stalled out since I got the carpet into “initial” position. I need to get more money before I can work on it too much more.

I was supposed to go on a Fathers & Sons campout this weekend but it looks like they are going to want me to help out with the accounting department. I find this somewhat funny since as I was getting ready to come over to the Outside Plant division my old boss said that she thought I would be begging for my old job back, and now she is begging for me to come back. I was a little tired of camping after this last weekend anyway (at least for a little while), so it’s probably for the best.