This past week was insane. I was extremely busy at work; in fact, I was the busiest I’ve been in the 4 years I’ve been working out here. I played racquetball several days at 5:30am with Jim, but I also ended up staying really late a few days too because I had so much work to do. It looks like the economy has really taken a turn and is heading back up because we’re getting a lot of orders and that means new product inquiries that I need to help make sure we can produce. I looked at gauge performance data for hours and hours, tried to get thermography images of coils while the Santa Ana winds were blowing, I ran lots of offline model setups to see what mill forces, tensions and motor loads were predicted to be, I did a housekeeping audit of the electrical shop, made lots of safety observations and that’s just on Thursday and Friday!
Each night when I got home I’d eat dinner and then spend my remaining hours awake scanning documents and sending them off to the mortgage banker we’re dealing with for our loan. Tomorrow morning Jean and I are meeting my dad for brunch in Santa Ana, then we’re all three riding up to the High Desert so we can show him our home. Hopefully we’ll be able to snap some shots of decent landscaping so we can have some ideas of what we want to do once we move in to our new home.
Today, Jean and I went to a few gigantic furniture stores, like Mathis Brothers, and we had a lot of fun thinking about all the stuff we’ll be buying to fill our new home. We like the taller round tables with matching bar stools/chairs for our kitchen, and we’re looking at these Japanese inspired beds that are really flat and low to the ground and just have a mattress instead of a mattress and box springs.
This evening Jean told me that her fish tank is starting to show algae blooms in a few spots. She showed me the numbers for the recent ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels and it looks like the tank has finally established the correct levels of “good bacteria” and can support more fish and plants. She went to the big aquarium store down the road and boat a few different algae eaters, like plecos, and some Yoyo loaches because we love watching our clown loaches.
Any aquarium people out there have recommendations for the best way to successfully move our tank from the valley to the desert without losing our established water and keep our fish alive?
Within the next week or two I’ll be heading into San Bernardino to the Mexican consulate to get one of those FMT cards that allows you to travel south of San Felipe and Ensenada in Baja because I’ll be going south with my buddy and his grandson at the end of February to do some whale watching.
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