I'm [finally] an engineer

It's been a long time coming; 9 months, to be exact. I have to do a little math, for once. I deal with price vs. time vs. performance problems every day. I use mass/energy/species balances. Arrhenius is my closest coworker and my greatest adversary.

I'm also as busy as a poor, fat kid at OCB. The 40 hr work week is now just a pleasant memory. We're not talking slave labor here, but the move to a 45-50 hr week is definitely noticeable. The upside is that my days fly by at this new job. The downside is that, if I have any errands to run after work, my evenings feel pretty compressed.

I'd talk about what exactly is keeping me so busy, but a lot of it is pretty sensitive. That's another nice thing about this job: I get to work on unique, cutting-edge widgets and the systems that utilize them.

...that last paragraph seemed like a pretty abrupt way to end the post, so I added this little bit. Much better, huh? :)