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Posted by: Mom
With a little cleaning there's room in the white barn for your car, with a bonus. It's got fancy new-fangled electric lights out there. Or, if you have to have it near your new residence, you can look into renting a storage unit.
Monday, February 1st, 2010 @ 8:15 AM
Monday, February 1st, 2010 @ 8:15 AM
Posted by: Jeff
I almost feel obligated to comment on every single post you make now, because I hounded you so long about the RSS feed.
Well, good work on getting the job. It sounds interesting.
Monday, February 1st, 2010 @ 8:48 AM
Well, good work on getting the job. It sounds interesting.
Monday, February 1st, 2010 @ 8:48 AM
Posted by: James
Thanks Jeff. At some point I'll go back and clear up the paragraphs issue. I'm not creating a feed for the comments at the moment because of the volume of spam I've been getting.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 @ 6:28 PM
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 @ 6:28 PM
Posted by: Brandon
Congrats! It sounds like the stuff you could be working on will be very interesting. Any trips to Ireland in the future? That would be sweet.
As for the Shuttle, I guess we'll just have to catch the next generation of awesome, no matter what form it will take.
Thursday, February 4th, 2010 @ 12:25 PM
As for the Shuttle, I guess we'll just have to catch the next generation of awesome, no matter what form it will take.
Thursday, February 4th, 2010 @ 12:25 PM
Posted by: Dad
You do not want to rent an apartment on Casino Road. That is a big drug area.
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 @ 4:55 PM
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 @ 4:55 PM
Posted by: James
I figured that out pretty quickly while looking around. The apartment I found is in Lynnwood, nearer to Bothell. It's one of the lower price apartments in its immediate area, so hopefully that's a good sign.
I can't make any predictions about trips to Ireland. The installation and commissioning is done by the engineers, but obviously its not practical send an entire project team over for that.
I'm not sure I'm ok with never getting to see a shuttle fly. When they go to deliver them to museums, I might be tempted to hijack one.
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 @ 5:05 PM
I can't make any predictions about trips to Ireland. The installation and commissioning is done by the engineers, but obviously its not practical send an entire project team over for that.
I'm not sure I'm ok with never getting to see a shuttle fly. When they go to deliver them to museums, I might be tempted to hijack one.
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 @ 5:05 PM
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"Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness." ~Claudius Galen
I spent about 2-1/2 hours with Electroimpact on Monday, starting with a detailed tour of the facility. The equipment they make is really impressive. It's primarily drilling and fastening equipment that works with extremely high precision over large distances on complex shapes. Some of these are purpose-built machines that would fill a gymnasium. Others are large industrial robots customized with their tool heads and improved controllers.
After the tour, I spent some time with one of their lead engineers reviewing an engineering test I had taken earlier. I think I got three wrong, and they got one wrong. Completing a 25 question test in one hour had me sweating a bit. Although the questions were harder back then, in school we'd usually have three to ten questions in a class period. I then talked to the president and several other engineers. Of the dozen or so people I met, only one didn't laugh at me for wearing a suit. I knew it was a casual workplace, but figured I couldn't go wrong by overdressing. I may have been wrong. Even a visiting group of foreign customers started cracking jokes when they saw me.
They got back to me on Wednesday, and on Friday I accepted their offer. Unless something changes, I start in two weeks.
The timing is fortunate since Kerry is in the middle of moving up to the Seattle area to help her parents get their veterinary clinic off the ground. We had a going away party for her last night and I spent most of today helping her move. I'll be on the other side of Seattle in Mukilteo. Hopefully I can find an apartment in the next two weeks.
Of course, this is going to complicate getting the Formula car running. I'm still figuring out where to keep it and hopefully still work on it.
It sounds like I will be assigned to work on a project for Short Brothers in Ireland. They're involved in the C-Series regional jet Bombardier is in the process of designing. They also have the distinction of having built some of the goofiest looking planes in the world.
James was... one move down with one more to go ...when he wrote this
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