I think Brian the evil Personal Trainer and I are starting to get a feel for each other. We harass each other until I'm working too hard to talk, then we focus. As soon as I stop calling him names, he only pushes me to maintain instead of trying to force me to push harder. In turn, I honestly go as hard as I can. It works. He also applauds my successes, even if they're less than what he's used to. Today we went outside (after 10 minutes on the treadmill and 15 on the rowing machine) and he had me walk as fast as I could down the street. He said I have an awesome power walk :) Then we went back and did some ab work. After some ridiculous oblique sets and straight up core stuff, he asked if I wanted one more. I said, sure, why not? He replied "you were supposed to say 'fuck no!'" Imagine laying with an exercise ball in the center of your back, body parallel to the floor. Hold a weight over your head in line with your body. Now lift your shoulders off the ball, keeping your arms straight over your head, and say "banana!" That is how my workout ended. No joke. Brian made a comment "If we were drinking there would be some sexual meaning to that." I couldn't agree more.
Today I was back out at the site. I had a meeting with a couple guys to explain my idea for a process improvement to them. They are on the input end of the process. I'm on the output end. Right now, nothing actually gets to me, even though they're inputting everything I could possibly need. I decided to take action. My lead is really happy with me right now. It feels freaking AWESOME! Monday I take my idea to the lead of one of the other facilities. After the holiday I take it to the final facility lead. Hopefully they like the idea too and I can put it in action. I am actually really excited! This is why I became an engineer.
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