I started working in Processing today rather than continuing on the line. I’ll have to work much harder both physically and mentally but it is better paying and less boring.
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job report
24Aug08The job is pretty boring. It’s assembly line work so most of the time I’m serving as a sort of human machine packing food mixes into their packages at 60+ per minute.
I may be transferring to another department that will be much harder physically but less boring.
The grueling schedule hasn’t run me down yet.
Busy, busy, frightfully busy
20Aug08I am now working from 8a-10:30, M-Sa. As one might expect, has greatly reduced my time available for other things, like blogging. I’ll try to stay in touch but entries will likely be short.
In other news, my new job is not too bad. I’m still in the training phase and I’ve learned less than half the tasks I’ll be required to perform but none of my responsibilities appears to be too odious. Yesterday, I spent most of the day smashing cardboard and what guy doesn’t enjoy smashing things?
too hot
17Aug08
Seattle got up into the 90’s today and the heat was amplified by high humidity. It’s a few minutes to midnight now and it isn’t cooling off enough. Emily and I made a late night jaunt down the hill for sorbet, but, as delectable as the treat was, I’m still too hot to sleep.
Seattle wins!
15Aug08…second place in Reason’s ranking of the most nanny-statist cities in America. This squeezes us in between champion Big Brother, Chicago, and New York City.
Splurge!
14Aug08I just bought the hardcover two-volume Works of Jonathan Edwards. The Westminister Seminary bookstore had it on sale for a mere $25. I wasn’t planning on purchasing the set for awhile but with such a low price I couldn’t resist.
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
- Jonathan Edwards
As Time Drags By
12Aug08Today, I had the privilege to do something that I haven’t been able to do for more than a week: I got to spend all day at work. It was great. This gap between jobs has been driving me crazy!
Sure it’s nice to wake up and read in bed until lunchtime but the indolence has been really been bothering me. I can’t get anything done when I have lots of time. I read more books, swim more consistently, respond to correspondence more quickly, do my housework more regularly and generally get more accomplished when I have to squeeze things in. If I have too much time my strong procrastinating reflex kicks in and I delay until all my time has been squandered.
It feels so good to be working again.
This song has been stuck in my head.
Note for the kids: Roasting marshmallows on chopsticks over a stovetop burner works GREAT!*
*I demonstrated this technique to my siblings this evening.**
**Yes, they know better than to do this by themselves.
Edit: Emily demands credit since I pretty much store the idea from her.
Pray Like Jesus in Gethsemane
03Aug08This evening, Pastor Mark preached a great message on Jesus’ Gethsemane prayer. He talked about the importance of praying, “Not my will, but yours.” The key take away point for me was that “prayer is less to move the the hand of God than to align the heart of the believer to His will.” God is really moving through this with me right now and it was encouraging to get a kind of confirmation that I’m moving in the correct direction.
The sermon notes are available here and the video will be available on the church’s main site within a few hours.
