Posts from — April 2008

If you are looking for someone to golf with, head to Vancouver! They put the Can-uck in “can suck” last night. All they had to do was score one more goal last night….instead they sucked and are now out of the playoffs. And stupid Oilers…why didn’t they just throw the game since they didn’t have any chance of making the playoffs. They could have done a favor to Canada and let the Canucks win!

Now the game on Saturday night isn’t going to be worth watching. There was huge potential for it to be the game of the season: Calgary vs. Vancouver down to the wire. Instead now they are playing for fun and it doesn’t count for anything!

Go Avalanche and Habs, I guess!

Yesterday I went on a day long retreat with my company.  The purpose of the retreat was to discuss our organization’s visions and to get to know the other staff members since there are so many new hires as of late. However, I believe I missed the purpose as I learned more about myself than anyone…oops.

We were tasked with a test first thing. We had to answer 3 pages of questions about how we think. In the end you got a score for each of 5 categories. The majority of my coworkers scored right across the board in all categories. I was definitely the odd one out. All of my points went in two categories. I learned that I am a realist!

I believe I got the exercise confused and considered it a competition and was quite impressed when I obtained the highest score in one category. My prize, to be used as an example for the rest of the day.

For those who never took philosophy, I will explain what a realist is. “Realists tend to view the world empirically- whatever can be seen, felt, heard, smelled and experience is vividly real. Anything else is somewhat fanciful, theoretical and not very compelling. They are bothered by compromise, synthesis, analysis and idealism. They want to achieve concrete results-nothing else can influence the course of that ‘real world’ “.

In other words, I don’t want to sit around and chat about theories and fluff for hours. Hand me a pen and let’s start writing facts down.  After the test, they had unleashed a monster. It was my way or the highway. Give me the marker and let’s make things happen.

After the retreat I headed to run stairs for the second time this week to get in shape. Jeff came up with the brilliant idea to sprint as fast as we could up them. It is the first time I have every experienced asthma and shortness of breath. Jeff was dizzy for about 20 minutes after that bright idea.

I’m glad I found a life partner who is as competitive and stubborn as myself….

Not So Deep Thought – #2

Are tail-lights on cars getting way bigger?   And I don’t mean that … “13inch tv” to the “15inch tv” sort of way.  I mean the whole, “13inch tv” to the “47inch LCD flat panel Extra-double HD” sort of way.   Two days now we’ve seen two different cars with tail-lights that seemed extra-ordinarily big.  Maybe it’s just us.

NSDT 2a – Why do we always have NSDT’s in the morning or after running stairs?