Greener Pastures

It has occurred to me that my blog posts have been quite dull as of late. I feel that I have been setting off an incorrect image of how I feel about my job. I do enjoy my job, and while the work may be tedious at times, I can manage it, especially with so many coworkers that I get along with. Bobbi gives me respite from busy work with stories of her kids, Germean bought the apple cider for the kitchen that I enjoy everyday on special request, Eric goes out of his way to get us interns to survey water basins, Faye gives me heads up on any community deserts that the office is too polite to eat, and Guoqiang gives me an applesauce on request to go with my cider and will never take any pieces of oranges in return. Yes, I do realize that most of these are food related, but what can I say, they know how to win my heart.

Continuing with the upbeat tone, I have changed odd jobs again, and this one is quite active. My job is to reorganize the commercial filing cabinets, as during the move all of the files were moved to the bottom two rows. However, it is not as simple as just shifting them-- there are plenty of mistakes throughout the cabinets that will make the job much more acute. It is a nice change of pace to stand up and move around a little. I needed to stretch these old office bones. Needless to say, I had a pretty good week.

Diminishing Returns

The job of watching roads for bike travelers has returned as the title implies. However,  my work was also diminished as the title implies. My new job is only to go over the same traffic footage differentiating between bikes on the road and those in the bike lane. This then comes down to simply forwarding to each time point that bikes past, and evaluate. As thus, I got it done in only 2 work days. Hooray.

However, this left more time in the week for a new job, so my new job became to use the ArcMap GIS program to mark down or fix any sidewalks that I see on the program. It is a slow process, but I have made some good progress, but there is still a lot more to go. I have a feeling that I will need to hand the baton over to Connor Weeks at the job switch.