Week In Review

Monday: 

1.  I find out I past the PE exam and officially get my papers certifying me as a Professional Engineer.  My friends from work take me out to dinner.  My manager says congratulations, but doesn’t shake my hand. 

2.  I go to the dentist and it doesn’t hurt because I’ve been flossing.  (Anyone who really neglected flossing for a while knows what I’m talking about.  Ouch.)

3.  My father in law cooks me 2 racks of ribs after picking out the cow to celebrate both by birthday and success.  I get a new portable gas grill for tailgating from Cyndi, golf shoes from my parents, and a sweet new leatherman from the other parents.  I’m having an excellent beginning to a week.

 

Tuesday (My Birthday)

1. I run into my boss at the bagel shop (I’m buying bagels for everyone because it’s my birthday!!!).  She shakes my hand and congratulates me.  The bagels are much appreciated.
2. I work like crazy because we have a deadline on Friday.  At 2:00, I get called into my managers office and yelled at for working 50 hours last week.  She asks what took me so long? What was I doing? . . . I tell her that I was working, and I don’t know every detail of what I was doing.  I was a little blindsided.  I honestly didn’t know what to say because I was in shock that someone would yell at me for working my ass off.  Well, after she finished my verbal lashing, she went home.  That’s right, folks.  She left at 3:40.  I stayed to work on our deadline until 10:30.  Yay Will!!!
3. I get home and my wife is sitting quietly on the couch.  She tells me about the birthday dinner she had cooked and we discuss my horrible day.

 

Wednesday

1. A project that has been on hold for 5 months, (Well, the mechanical guys have been working on it all along, but I wasn’t aloud to charge time to that account) hits us.  The architect wants it in one week-on the 5^th of July.  All of the sudden, my boss is a lot nicer.  Hmmmm.  I work until 9:30.  We agree on what both of us will do to get it done.  She is going out of town on Friday on vacation for a week. 
2. I get home and the dinner from the night before had been pulled out of the fridge and later, put right back in.  Cyndi and I talk about our day!

 

Thursday

1. A somewhat regular work day.  I vow not to work late because, damnit, I’m eating dinner with my wife.  I really haven’t seen her all week and she’s going out of town for a week on Saturday.  I get home.  We order pizza.  I crash at like 8:30.

 

Friday

1. My boss tells me she didn’t get around to the one major thing I needed her to do.  I know I’m working on Saturday to pick up the slack.  My boss leaves for the week before lunch.
2. Cyndi and I go to lunch.  When I get back to the office, Cyndi surprises me with a  congratulations cake for my PE!  She’s great.  The few people in the office chow down. 
3. Friday night I find out that we aren’t getting up at 6:00 on Saturday to take Cyndi and her parents to the airport.  No, no, the plane is leaving then.  We’re getting up at 4:15.  I promptly go to sleep at 9:30.

 

Saturday.

1. I take Cyndi and her parents to the airport.
2. I get to work at 5:30 and work 6 hours.

 

Sunday

1. Drinking on the beach.  I love Chucktown.

 

Monday

1. The new Electrical PE manager asks me if I would mind doing his field work for him since it’s closer to my house.  I tell him I’m going out of town.  (He’s been strolling through 40 hours a week and wants me to do his job.  Below Me.)
2. Monday night . . . nuff said.  You were there.  Now, you know why. 

 

Sincerely,

Lawtonious Funk, PE