Thursday, April 30, 2009
Marriage Advice
Yesterday I was listening to Dave Ramsey, and while this doesn’t affect me I thought it was interesting. He was speaking to Joe Beam, a marriage counselor, who said that wives start more arguments but husbands will determine their length primarily by how he treats his wife when they aren’t arguing.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Renae and the MBA
For various reasons I’ve been pretty disconnected from the internet for three days. This post was meant to be posted on Saturday, but I didn’t have internet access to do so.
This morning was long anticipated. Before I even moved to Michigan Renae spent a great deal of time preparing for the GMAT. In the fall of 2004 she began the journey to her MBA—one class at a time.
To be honest, I was a bit surprised at what a really good student she is. She would get the syllabus ahead of time and be reading ahead in the textbook. She began papers right away, and she was the one prodding along delinquent group project members. Often she would be frustrated because she would have completed an assignment on the syllabus only for other students to complain near the end of the semester and the prof would cut out the assignment.
She took a year off for her three foot surgeries and then picked up her studies again. When she considered not finishing the program, her younger son said that she had to finish what she started and encouraged to go on. She’s been a great visual to her sons about working hard for good grades. (Maybe they aren’t visual learners???)
Last May she decided to do both sessions of summer school and take two classes in the fall to knock out the degree faster and to have only one class left this spring. Little did she know that she would be let go in December and have to pay for that last class personally; otherwise the company paid for her MBA.
I told her she could take the summer off and then we could start Ph.Ds in the fall together. That was almost the end of our friendship.
Renae, I’m really proud of you! You’re a great student. So while today marks the end of your classroom learning, it’s the first day of the rest of your life of learning.
This morning was long anticipated. Before I even moved to Michigan Renae spent a great deal of time preparing for the GMAT. In the fall of 2004 she began the journey to her MBA—one class at a time.
To be honest, I was a bit surprised at what a really good student she is. She would get the syllabus ahead of time and be reading ahead in the textbook. She began papers right away, and she was the one prodding along delinquent group project members. Often she would be frustrated because she would have completed an assignment on the syllabus only for other students to complain near the end of the semester and the prof would cut out the assignment.
She took a year off for her three foot surgeries and then picked up her studies again. When she considered not finishing the program, her younger son said that she had to finish what she started and encouraged to go on. She’s been a great visual to her sons about working hard for good grades. (Maybe they aren’t visual learners???)
Last May she decided to do both sessions of summer school and take two classes in the fall to knock out the degree faster and to have only one class left this spring. Little did she know that she would be let go in December and have to pay for that last class personally; otherwise the company paid for her MBA.
I told her she could take the summer off and then we could start Ph.Ds in the fall together. That was almost the end of our friendship.
Renae, I’m really proud of you! You’re a great student. So while today marks the end of your classroom learning, it’s the first day of the rest of your life of learning.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Attention, Attention, take cover, take cover
This morning at work we had a take cover (tornado) drill. The shelter areas are the men's and ladies' restrooms. There are many more men on this end of the building than women so when the men's room fills up they must start filling in the space in the women's room.
The ladies' restroom was filling up and then the first men came. Everyone laughed and the men came in shaking their heads, hands up as if in defeat, and with red faces.
It was funny how everyone seemed to revert to elementary school giggles over the situation. Ooooh--Johnny's in the girls' bathroom!!!
The ladies' restroom was filling up and then the first men came. Everyone laughed and the men came in shaking their heads, hands up as if in defeat, and with red faces.
It was funny how everyone seemed to revert to elementary school giggles over the situation. Ooooh--Johnny's in the girls' bathroom!!!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Earth Day
Funniest line from another blog today: I’ll celebrate Earth Day when they give back Pluto its deserved planet status.
I did my part to save a tree today. An electronic invoice that one of our dealers received today would be 46 pages if printed. She paid from the electronic invoice, attached it in an e-mail to me, and I uploaded it to our on-line document storage with no paper printed.
I did my part to save a tree today. An electronic invoice that one of our dealers received today would be 46 pages if printed. She paid from the electronic invoice, attached it in an e-mail to me, and I uploaded it to our on-line document storage with no paper printed.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Product Recommendation
Today or tomorrow is sump pump day so last night I moved things out of my furnace room. I also needed to move my foosball table back to make it easier for the workers to move through the room with their equipment. I literally couldn't budge it, and pushing it only made the legs start to bend. During the night I had a revelation--I have Moving Men!!!
This morning I used them and slid the foosball table over several feet. They worked wonders!!! I'm glad Renae encouraged me to buy these at Shipshewana last year, and I'm sure I paid a lot less than $14.95 or $9.95.
This morning I used them and slid the foosball table over several feet. They worked wonders!!! I'm glad Renae encouraged me to buy these at Shipshewana last year, and I'm sure I paid a lot less than $14.95 or $9.95.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Today my friend Renae called me at work. I saw her number show up on my screen and as I pressed the button for that line the call dropped. She called back right away so I asked her what had happened. She said it was weird, but that the phone rang and then she got a recorded message, “This line is no longer in service.”
She about freaked out and thought, “Somebody got rid of Rhoda too at HMI!”
We laughed about it as did the specialists and only analyst here today, but reality is that isn’t funny and is a real possibility these days.
She about freaked out and thought, “Somebody got rid of Rhoda too at HMI!”
We laughed about it as did the specialists and only analyst here today, but reality is that isn’t funny and is a real possibility these days.
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