Week 6: A quarter of the summer gone

This week marks the half way point of the first half of my Internship. For anyone that doesn't know, I am doing two 6 week projects with two separate divisions at SC Johnson. So now I am at the point where all of the work I have done I know have to get ready to present. As always I'll give you my 10 from the week. (sorry no pictures this week)

1. I have discovered that I am the arch nemesis of my four year old niece. Not that I do anything mean to her, but she can go from giggles to screaming at me in about 2.5 seconds. This has been evidenced numerous time in the last 6 weeks I am just now convinced there is nothing I can do.

2. Upon arrival at my kickball game this week I find 2 things. The first that I have 2 more people that want to join, the problem with this is that I already have 27 people on the team when only 10 can play at a time. The second thing is that the league keeps changing things on me and makes me extremely stressed during the entire game. Interestingly enough my average is 2-2 and have scored 2 of the 4 total runs our team has scored in both of our games...

3. After a few beautiful days of 90+ degree weather an enormous thunderstorm comes rolling through the area and drops the temperature 40 degrees so that now it is in the 50s... Man how I have missed the midwest weather craziness.

4. I bought a car. Buying car insurance is a pain in the butt.

5. The great thing about this area is the beautiful back roads that you can just cruise through. Oh how I have missed driving.

6. At work I get out of a meeting with my boss to look at how my project is progressing. After talking for a while I walk out of the meeting and realize that I now have to repeat all the work I have done up until that point and I have to look at other things effectively doubling the amount of work I have to do.

7. I attended a party this weekend that was very informative. I learned a few things, met a few people and found out that some old geezers can shred hardcore on the guitar and have some face melting guitar solos. It was pretty cool.

8. When trying to teach my 7 year old niece how to throw a frisbee I found that she has a mean side to her. She also then understood very quickly that I wasn't going to take her being mean and she very quickly apologized and felt bad about it.

9. In the process of doing my work I pulled numbers from two different sources that should have matched. I brought it to the system administrator's attention and they began trying to fix the error. This is the system the entire finance part of the company uses. After witnessing the system crashing for a few hours I receive a phone call telling me that them trying to fix the error is causing the crash and that they will get around to fixing the problem when not everyone is at work trying to use it.

10. It is funny, when I am thinking about something and an hour later the Lord sees fit to make sure I know that he is paying attention. OK Lord, you got me.