Sunday, June 29, 2014
A new job!
One of the jobs I sent my resume to panned out and I went in for an interview Friday morning.
The company is called Magnum Energy and they primarily design and manufacture inverters for mobile and renewable energy applications (think RVs and solar arrays). I will be working on the assembly line in the final stage (testing/packaging/shipping).
It is going to involve a LOT of heavy lifting and working on my feet, so it's a good thing I don't shy from hard work. The inverters weigh about 70 lbs. a piece and I will be doing boxing to start for my first two weeks. This means moving the assembled inverter from the table to a box and the box into a taping machine as many as 200 times a day. This should do a good job of kicking my ass into shape!
I will be working from 7am to 3:30pm, which will still leave me with the rest of the day to relax, play with the kids, and make dinner as necessary.
I'm fairly excited about it, as it seems like a solid company to work for and I like the people I've met so far.
I also like the idea of working for a "Made in the U.S.A." company.
And so barring any sudden disasters, I will be starting work on the 7th.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Oh crap, we've been here for a week already!
>.> .... <.<
So yeah. It's already been a week!
We arrive last Tuesday afternoon and it has been a mad house since. Between unloading the truck, getting things tucked away, and organizing furniture, we have been very busy bees.
On top of that we had to get our new licenses for Washington (which, actually, was super easy. Also, very very different from California!). Next is registering the car, then getting AAA set up....But at least we have the interwebs!
We had to go with Comcast for that...D:
But it is very fast! I am currently downloading State of Decay at something like 1.9mbps. Which is insane to me.
Isabeau and I have also been applying to jobs this week, trying to get settled in that respect as well.
So, the apartment complex!
It's seems very nice so far. When we arrived and got the paperwork settled, we started to unload on our own (we had scheduled to have helpers come on Wednesday to help with the heavy stuff), and much to our surprise a bunch of kids from the complex just came out and volunteered to help unload! Crazy! Saffron has managed to become friends with a couple of siblings named Kaylee and Sunny (a young lady and her little brother) and has been playing with them a lot on the little playground.
Which is next to the lake!
Which has flocks of ducks and geese (which it is illegal to harass)
I will be taking more pictures of the complex and the kids to post in the next couple of days (hopefully).
Our locations pretty fantastic as well. We are a short walk from just about anything (except for a Target), and just a block from the main through fair in Everett. Despite that, the place is almost unnaturally quiet...
There is also a large and very nice playground that is just a short walk from us, that we have gone to almost everyday since finding it.
That's all for now, I am hopefully going to get another post up soon.
So yeah. It's already been a week!
We arrive last Tuesday afternoon and it has been a mad house since. Between unloading the truck, getting things tucked away, and organizing furniture, we have been very busy bees.
On top of that we had to get our new licenses for Washington (which, actually, was super easy. Also, very very different from California!). Next is registering the car, then getting AAA set up....But at least we have the interwebs!
We had to go with Comcast for that...D:
But it is very fast! I am currently downloading State of Decay at something like 1.9mbps. Which is insane to me.
Isabeau and I have also been applying to jobs this week, trying to get settled in that respect as well.
So, the apartment complex!
It's seems very nice so far. When we arrived and got the paperwork settled, we started to unload on our own (we had scheduled to have helpers come on Wednesday to help with the heavy stuff), and much to our surprise a bunch of kids from the complex just came out and volunteered to help unload! Crazy! Saffron has managed to become friends with a couple of siblings named Kaylee and Sunny (a young lady and her little brother) and has been playing with them a lot on the little playground.
Which is next to the lake!
I will be taking more pictures of the complex and the kids to post in the next couple of days (hopefully).
Our locations pretty fantastic as well. We are a short walk from just about anything (except for a Target), and just a block from the main through fair in Everett. Despite that, the place is almost unnaturally quiet...
There is also a large and very nice playground that is just a short walk from us, that we have gone to almost everyday since finding it.
That's all for now, I am hopefully going to get another post up soon.
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