The location: Ford dealer in Rochester, Minnesota (70 miles south of the Twin Cities)
The subject: A silver type-996 Porsche 911.
The involved parties: A salesman named Josh and me
The full extent of the personal data that Josh knew about me: My first name
The experience: Test-driving the 911 around the outskirts of Rochester
The result: 🙂
The reason this is notable: It was the first time I’d ever test-driven any car at a dealership (don’t they usually check for at least a driver’s license?). It was also the first time that I’ve ever driven a type-996 911. I was on Cloud 9 the entire time!
The moral: If you dress nicely, show confidence, and can talk intelligently, doors will open for you.
The best sales line I heard from Josh: “Buy a sports car before you’re married. Miss that window, and you’ll be stuck with a minivan; there’s my Freestar.”
Tempting. Oh, so tempting.
Four random things:
1) I solved a tricky problem at work today! I rule!
2) I’d like to get a group together to go see the Hockey World Cup semifinal game in St. Paul next Friday. If you’re in Minnesota and are interested, let me know.
3) No, Mutak has not dropped off the face of the planet, although his blog has. Apparently some sort of update snafu besmirched his page. I think we’re all adrift now that we don’t know who made the most recent page update…
4) I’m beginning to realize just how wide the opportunities are for my future (in a good way).
I was at work today when, in the midst of debugging a microcontroller, I thought about those over-used sayings in corporate America. I think that every large company has them — hackneyed phrases long since worn out yet still repeated by seemingly everybody.
At my company, the current favorite seems to be, “When the rubber meets the road.”
Does your company have any such banal quips? What are they?
Upon looking through my mail from the past week, I discovered a letter from the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency. I ripped through the envelope and read the contents. “Congratulations!!” the enclosed letter began (yes, it had two exclamation points). “You have successfully passed the ENGINEERING INTERN examination.”
Will I ever go on to get my PE? (Professional Engineer for you non-engineers in the audience) Maybe, maybe not. I might do it on a lark many years down the road, but there is no hurry.
That reminds me of something else I realized during the past week: I’m actually using things I learned at school in my job! Some of the knowledge is even stuff that I thought I would never touch again — specifically, electromagnetics. Wow!
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