Boys and Toys

As some of you may know, last week was due to be an interesting experiment for me work-wise. I was in a space that uses gridwalking (tightrope walking along pipes in the air, in this location about 40 feet in the air). However, the space put a catwalk system in over the pipes (yay), but you still needed to clip in to a lifeline/fall arrest system as there were no handrails (boo). Also, many of the lights were under the catwalks, so you had to lean all the way under them or sit on the pipes anyway. More fun was that the grate was installed upside down, resulting in various people cutting themselves pretty badly. I was not one of them as I was ground crew for the week except for 5 minutes of a notes call, wherein I decided that in future I am definitely ground crew. Otherwise, uneventful in the work sphere.

Yesterday I got to help take my brother back to school. For the record, he is perfectly capable of handling this on his own normally. Except this summer he bought himself a new toy: a motorcycle. He realized that he could not ride it and drive his car back to school at the same time, so... He rode his bike, my father drove his car, and I drove my car to be able to take my dad back home. People have emailed me things about "What's your carbon footprint?" I laugh at them and hit delete.

In other news, I need books to read. Any subject or genre is fair game. Suggest some.