Well, Blake’s lovely lady Keni has been giving me trouble about not updating the blog enough, so I figured I’d put something new up just to make her go away! I HATE when beautiful girls are bothering me all the time 
.
Soooooo. What’s new? I’ve been staying busy with work and with job hunting for the past few weeks. I have had a few interviews that have gone pretty well, and I really hope to have something firmed up in the next week or two.
My boss asked me into his office this morning for a reprimand. Sometimes sales people live in their own worlds and the only thing they care about is how they look and making sure the impossible promises they make to their customers are fulfilled. A salesperson started to whine in an e-mail trail that she needed a rush order immediately, and wanted to know “what gives” with the order being late. So I wrote back the truth: Our plants were working double overtime to keep up with our huge influx of work over the past 2 months or so, and that those same guys working 70-80 hrs a week were just rewarded with the news that they no longer have jobs. Imagine that, their motivation to work above and beyond disappeared and now everything is late. I wanted to really write back a nasty note telling her silly she is to flip out over a $15 box of business cards being late, because she isn’t smart enough to realize that over 100 people were just laid off, and an entire company shut down. I held back and just wrote down the facts, but they didn’t seem to like that very much. So sales folks didn’t like what I said (even though it’s true) and asked a boss of a boss to ask my boss to talk to me. My boss told me that he was sick of lying, and that everything I said was true and he didnt’ have any problem with it….and “reprimanded me” by giving me two 4th row tickets to an afternoon Texas Rangers game and a full day off to go. He said it was a reward for all of my extra hours and hard work. Man, I need to be reprimanded more often!!!
Last week Blake and I went out to take some pics of his 1965 Fastback Mustang (with the Cobra Engine). We went to one of my favorite spots under the bridge and did some night long exposures. We were just fooling around and trying a lot of different things (flash, no flash, flashlight painting etc.) and ended up with some good pics. We are going to go out again soon when the weather gets better and take some more. We learned a lot and have some ideas about what we want to do.
You can see the rest of the pics from that night in my gallery here:Clicky
Blake’s page about his car
