6/5/08

I'm in a fog today. All I want to do is sleep. It is 1010 h, I've been at my desk since about 0830 h and I've already had two naps. It’s giving me a headache to be honest. In an attempt to “get over it” I actually… well, let me tell this story from the beginning. Several weeks ago, my “boss” and the new General Manager of the company for which I work came out to see the place and what I do. As they were about to leave, the GM handed me a book called Strengths Finder 2.0. He pointed out that there was a “secret code” in the back of the book which would allow me to log into the Strengths Finder website and take a little quiz. I said I'd do it and they left. Well, about a week later I actually did log into the site and took the test. I forwarded the results to myself so I could print it out on my work computer. The day I printed it out I sat down and read the first half of the book. Basically it is a “self help” book but it goes about things “backwards.” Instead of trying to strengthen your weaknesses to make you better, it teaches that you are who you are so use your strengths. I know it sounds like I'm all jumping on this bandwagon and becoming a disciple, but I'm just telling y'all what it’s about. I'm not buying into it per se. Ok, so after reading the introduction and explanation section of the book, I got to the part where it explains what all the “strengths” or whatever they are calling them, mean. I put it all aside for a later date. Well, today is that later date apparently. I picked up the printout and read what they consider my “strengths” to be, based on the quiz. They did sort of describe me in that “horoscope generality” sort of way. Ok, that may not be fair. I did not read any of the other “strengths” to see if they didn’t describe me. That might prove that the whole thing isn’t bunk. I'm just being skeptical I guess. So, did the thing help me to improve myself? Absolutely not. Well, not until I do stuff to capitalize on those “strengths.” But hey, that is what the whole shebang was about in the first place. I'll just take it as the Popeye theory of self help, “I yam whut I yam! Aaack ack ack ack!” I'm strong to the finichk, ‘cuz I eats me spinichk. I'm Popeye the Sailor Man. Toot toot! Speaking of which, John and I ate at Kincaid’s Hamburgers on Saturday and I noticed that they had Popeye brand spinach on the shelf. That’s all. There’s no story there. Well, a picture of Shi-Chi’s engine just popped up on the screen saver of my work computer. It was an early shot when the car still had the single DCOE on it. I could see the header pretty prominently. It got me to wondering if the SU carburetors allowed such a view. I went searching for the pictures I took of the engine after installing said SUs and it looks like the heat shield almost totally conceals the zorst manifold. I was also thinking about the rerouting of the zorst to get from the manifold to the muffler. I think if I rotate the muffler so that the 90°bend which currently points up pointed in down low, I could make another 90° and a 45° and hit the manifold. Bada bing, bada bang, bada boom. As for the extra hole in the side of the car, I could make it into a pop out vent to direct cooling air into the driver's foot box or, more likely, cover it with an aluminum panel. It won’t be the first time I've had to cover an old cutout when making a change to the car. Ok, I just erased a little section where I went into a girly little touchy-feely thing about emotions and crap. Well, it really wasn’t but it was headed that way. The short version is, “My mood improved dramastically when I took off for a few hours and roamed around campus talking to people.” Read into that whatever the hell you feel like reading into it. I don’t care. And on that note I think I'm going to call it a rant. Have a day.