Occasionally, Nancy works on what she calls "Skunkworks projects." This Wikipedia link will give you some idea what I'm talking about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunkworks_project These are usually projects that management would like her to do but they are a ways down on the priority list. Sometimes they are projects that she thinks management may not think are worth spending time on. Sometimes they are just cool ideas that she thinks she could do pretty easily. Sometime she works on them when she is frustrated with what she is supposed to be working on. Other times, she works on them on weekends, just for fun.
A while back, she was in a conference call meeting and her boss, Joe, said that he thought that they should do something. Nancy replied that she had already done that. Then Joe said it would be cool if they added something else to which she replied she had already done that too! Then Joe said "OK, Nancy what am I thinking of now?!" Today, Joe used one of her skunkworks projects as part of a demo for a major film studio in LA. He said they loved it!
Today, I did a little Skunksworks project of my own. I am working on taping the drywall in the living room but the place was getting to be a mess. Nancy even commented that I am good at making a mess... I have a cheap shop vac that has a piece of paper over foam for the filter. It has never worked very well, especially for drywall dust. Really, it just sucks up the dust and blows it back out the exhaust port! It was time for a new shop vac.
As I was making my shopping list, I remembered that Nancy was having to dig through piles of stuff this morning to find the clothes she wanted to wear today. Living out of boxes and piles on the floor gets old after a while... Our closet has not had a clothes rod, ever since we moved in 7 months ago. I asked Nancy about putting up a clothes rod. What she really wanted, she said. was two sets of shelves and rod between them, just like I put in at our last house. Off to the store I went...
As you may notice, I didn't take time to paint. I did clean the walls first. Pretty good for a knuckle dragger, huh? The shelves are going to have to come back out when we paint and carpet the bedroom anyways. Now she wants new closet doors....
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Are those some of the clothes that got kicked out of our house a few weeks ago?
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ReplyDeleteYou were talking about shop vacs, and I remembered a shop vac incident that I had when we lived in Santa Margarita. I was trying to vacuum up a deceased blackbird that our cat had distributed throughout the house. I set up the vacuum at the bottom of the stairwell, and proceeded to turn the vacuum on. I found myself engulfed in cloud of soot and feathers. I realized that several days before, I had forgotten to dump out the vacuum after I had cleaned out the BBQ, and had also forgotten to put on the dust screen. Oh, did I mention our carpet was white? I went to work looking like a raccoon when I went into work that day!
ReplyDeleteLove to you all,
Rick Huddleston