Little diddy 'bout...

My new job has been quite an interesting experience. First off, I have never worked for a company that is so big, in every way. For example, I had a work meeting today in a section of Houston called Stafford, which is southwest. Anyway, we passed 3 company buildings as we traveled on the freeway, before we arrived in Stafford! So there are tons of employee's (literally tons), there are many locations, and a huge amount of inventory/product. But because the company is so big, there is tons of bureaucracy. Which means that before I can do anything I have to go through a ton of training lessons. Primarily it has just been safety things like, keeping your hands safe, how to lift properly, chemical safety, fire safety, how to report unsafety, you get the idea. And after each training they give you a little test. It is quite ridiculous because the answers are generally so easy, like 
"Should you store flammable chemicals in a:  
A) Designated smoking place 
B) Out in the open so you can trip over them 
C) In a fire safe storage cabinet. 
 And even if you get some wrong you can go review the test afterwards and it gives you the right answer! The hardest part of the deal right now is making sure my brain doesn't leak out my ears (this feat is quite tricky, and had I not had previous experience in some college classes I may not have been successful). But my supervisor seems like a real proactive guy and is definitely going to a lot of work to help me out. I think that it will be good working for him. Oh, by the way I think that I told you all previously that I would be working on Roller Cones, since that's what they told me. But I will actually be working on instruments that monitor the drill heads. This is closer to what I was doing for my TA job at BYU. I am excited, all this stuff is pretty interesting to me anyways.

So Texas is huge. And there is an insane amount of people just on the road. I have come to accept that traffic at any hour is completely normal, and this isn't just lots of cars on the road, it's like slow poke freeway at 2 pm. And I think that I will develop a distaste for toll roads. 

It's hot. Last two weeks have been in the 90's. It's May.

I'll finish with an update on Calvin. So he now has his own room, and he now recognizes that when we take him in there and rock it's because we want him to fall asleep. Now, that wouldn't be a problem if in fact he actually wanted to go to sleep. However, it seems that he hates, hates to sleep, and he doesn't mind letting our neighbors down the way know about it. On a better note though, he is a funny baby. When we first moved in his favorite thing: the ceiling fan. He'd be on his back just laughing away staring right at it.

Anyway, life goes on...