Money shot 1:
Money shot #2:
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Sexy Mama
We finally had enough of the fridge that we inherited with the house. It wasn't necessarily a bad fridge, but we grew tired of its inability to keep a constant temperature (the top shelf would get freezer envy from time to time and decide to freeze everything sitting on it, while the bottom shelf would be warmed up to 45 degrees), and its lack of ice maker was a definite shortcoming. Maybe this makes me a bad person, but I was just too lazy to keep the ice cube trays regularly filled. I'm also looking forward to some energy savings. According to the Energy Guide, our new purchase only costs $56 a year to run. Sweet. Behold our new goddess of all things cold, frozen, and filtered. Now if only she had a beer tap...
Money shot #2:
Money shot #2:
Monday, August 20, 2007
Murphy's Law is Alive and Well
So, what do you get when it hasn't rained in two weeks and you spend the weekend tilling and trenching your back yard?
If you're lucky, you get this:
Which leaves you with this:
And it's still raining. Oh the humanity.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
My PS Exam results
I started surveying in late November, 1997 during my Senior year in high school. My first job was with a very small firm in my home town of Lancaster, Ohio doing mostly boundary surveys and mortgage location work as a survey tech... I enjoyed it and it was my boss who pushed me to go to college and try to get dual licensed as both an engineer and surveyor. If I hadn't worked there I doubt I would have gone to college, and I know I wouldn't be where I am today.
The process of getting licensed is a four step process. The first step is getting the education. In Ohio a four year degree is required from an accredited institution, there are only two in Ohio, OSU and Akron. The Geomatics Engineering program at OSU is accredited for both civil engineering and surveying, graduates can be licensed as engineers and surveyors (it's a rigorous and difficult program).
The second step is passing the Surveyor in Training exam (SIT), this exam is taken typically right after you graduate college and (after you pass it) marks the beginning of your professional training. The SIT is an 8 hour exam featuring everything from differential calculus to ethics, accounting to chemistry, and of course a large amount of surveying.
After you pass the SIT, you are required to get 4 years of professional experience working directly under the supervision of a licensed surveyor. This experience is the 3rd part of the PS process and for me, the clock started ticking after I passed the SIT in April, 2003 and began with Woolpert later that month.
I filed the paper work at the end of last year and exactly 4 years (to the day) after taking the SIT exam, I again found myself sitting in Veteran's Memorial on April 20th, 2007. I took the PS exam that day and last Friday I received my results:
So I'm very happy to say that the 10 year journey I started way back in 1997 was completed this week. I now have the PS designation behind my name and I'm thrilled to be free from the stress and anxiety of waiting for the test results.
Woot!
The process of getting licensed is a four step process. The first step is getting the education. In Ohio a four year degree is required from an accredited institution, there are only two in Ohio, OSU and Akron. The Geomatics Engineering program at OSU is accredited for both civil engineering and surveying, graduates can be licensed as engineers and surveyors (it's a rigorous and difficult program).
The second step is passing the Surveyor in Training exam (SIT), this exam is taken typically right after you graduate college and (after you pass it) marks the beginning of your professional training. The SIT is an 8 hour exam featuring everything from differential calculus to ethics, accounting to chemistry, and of course a large amount of surveying.
After you pass the SIT, you are required to get 4 years of professional experience working directly under the supervision of a licensed surveyor. This experience is the 3rd part of the PS process and for me, the clock started ticking after I passed the SIT in April, 2003 and began with Woolpert later that month.
I filed the paper work at the end of last year and exactly 4 years (to the day) after taking the SIT exam, I again found myself sitting in Veteran's Memorial on April 20th, 2007. I took the PS exam that day and last Friday I received my results:
So I'm very happy to say that the 10 year journey I started way back in 1997 was completed this week. I now have the PS designation behind my name and I'm thrilled to be free from the stress and anxiety of waiting for the test results.
Woot!
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Game room, paint and lighting
Saturday night we pulled a classic all niter, priming the walls and painting the ceiling. We kept it going all night, wrapping up with some touch ups at 5am. The ceiling is old, but not original, obviously.. having been painted twice I believe and not ever by the former owner. The gap between each tile is a mere millimeter, but it's enough that the roller wouldn't cover properly.. so we painted the grid as a starter and then rolled the rest. Here's Kelly doing a fine job:
Sunday morning we slept late, but got up in time to go to Home Depot in the rain a buy trim and crown molding (brilliant!) The drive home was a wet one, I sat in th back of Betsy holding on for dear life to our 14' sections of $3.19 per linear foot crown molding (at that price I wasn't about to let it fall out!) The rest of Sunday we spent painting & finishing the grey (Behr Dark Granite) and tan (Behr Gobi Desert).
Monday we stained the trim, I put a second coat of gray on the ceiling and we hung the Lowe's special order light fixture, the result is exactly what I'd hoped for. A dark, peaceful, moody game room that is a completely irresponsible usage of space:
Sunday morning we slept late, but got up in time to go to Home Depot in the rain a buy trim and crown molding (brilliant!) The drive home was a wet one, I sat in th back of Betsy holding on for dear life to our 14' sections of $3.19 per linear foot crown molding (at that price I wasn't about to let it fall out!) The rest of Sunday we spent painting & finishing the grey (Behr Dark Granite) and tan (Behr Gobi Desert).
Monday we stained the trim, I put a second coat of gray on the ceiling and we hung the Lowe's special order light fixture, the result is exactly what I'd hoped for. A dark, peaceful, moody game room that is a completely irresponsible usage of space:
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Tit, bit nipply!
NO. This isn't Kelly. This is the most bosomy dummy I've ever seen in a store. Odd, I didn't think it was particularly cold in the woman's running section.
Then again, what else would you expect from Dick's Sporting Goods?
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