engineering
i would rather be a garbage man than a patent examiner
part of my job is looking at IP (intellectual property), licensing, protecting, and negotiating it. i have a patent on my desk that i’m evaluating and determing if it infringes upon any other patents or has semblance to existing drawings related to the topic. reading patents is what one should do when they cannot fall asleep at night and need the most unstimulating reading material known to human-kind. i, however, take shots of bourbon because falling asleep to patents and waking up to them is no way to live. the military should consider forcing terror suspects to become patent examiners as a form of torture as opposed to water boarding. i have never been water boarded, but it might be more stimulating than reading patents - i’m really not sure. alright, i’m getting ahead of myself. can you tell i love reading patents? i’ll stop now.
in true torrell fashion, jonathan helped salvage my spirit between 9 and 9:30am by sending me quite possibly the most hilarious comment made by a political spokesman thus far:
On television today a Democratic operative pointed out that when Obama
holds a rally 25-30,000 people show up, whereas when McCain holds one he
only draws 10-15,000. The Republican spokesman replied, “That’s because
McCain’s supporters are at work.”
immediately, i forwarded that to the one person who i knew would love it more than myself: daddy.
all morning i have been conversing with my counterpart at our tifton plant. we were discussing the art of designing a standard piece of high volume equipment and the many possible ways that people somehow mess it up every time. as we always say, whenever we find a way to idiot-proof something, we find a bigger idiot. i love talking to this engineer. he has this extremely deep voice and he speaks very slowly, so when he answers the phone it goes a little like: “This…. is…. Runako.” and a little part of me giggles every time because the way he says it, i feel like i’m calling a 1-900 sex hotline. i feel so rebellious. plus, runako is great: he’s only 25 so we usually have tons to talk about, work and non-work related. he says he’s going to take me to club dreamz, and i said that any club that alters the spelling of their establishment to mimick the spelling of a 12 year-old girl with a glitter pen wasn’t really my cup of tea. i’ll let you know how it goes.
i walked downstairs a bit ago and was banned from all future play in company online fantasy sports by the guy who organizes all of it. the reason? i am 4-0 in foxsports fantasy football - the only undefeated team remaining, and i won the ncaa bracket challenge in march.