so today was the end of the 3rd day. i haven't had a chance to swipe a picture of the office or the mug yet. i've been pretty busy. theres tons of work to be done and not enough time to do it. i am so excited to be working on the stuff im working on. i cant say its a dream job, but its pretty close. it has been a while since ive been able to just do engineering work without having to worry a lot about budgets and schedule. so far, we are just working at our pace good enough to get the work done when needed. so in that sense, its great. i just hope it stays like that.

also, tonight, i got to have dinner with my coworkers and my bosses boss (head of engineering for the electrical group) and it was great. we hit up the chart house for dinner in redondo. it was really great getting to know the director that soon. he was really eager to meet us and it was great to be wanted again. it has been a long time coming i think for most of us when we were at BAE.

anyways, it seems like the company has great direction and has a great future. i am very excited to be working here and i hope that all of my former colleagues can come join me. big things will be happening here for sure.

So yesterday was my first day at my new job at Moog, Inc. in Torrance. It’s a great company so far. When I first got here, the orientation was abit dry, but I got through it. I scored a sweet stainless steel coffee mug (pics of which ill have to add later from my phone), a fatty laptop with an dditional 19” LCD screen and a 1GB flash drive. It’s like Christmas I tell you! I love it. The office is pretty wide open and the cubicles are pretty low (only 4ft) so everything is out in the open. A lot of people can look over my shoulder while I’m working, which I am not too keen on yet, but I’ll get used to I guess.

My immediate boss/lead is my old boss from BAE back in Culver City, so it’s nice to see and work with him again. He’s always been so helpful and is a great teacher. The work is similar to what I was doing at BAE, except that instead of flight control computers, we are doing actuator control computers. They are pretty similar, but the stuff I am doing now directly controls the spoilers and flaps on airplanes to help them stabilize when landing.

The drive hasn’t been too bad yet either; maybe its b/c some of the schools are on vacation already. I dunno. Either way, it takes about 30 minutes to get here and an hour to get home. If I come in at 7am, I can leave by 3:30-4pm depending on how long I take for lunch. This is much better than the old schedule, but I lost my every other Friday off.

Anyways…that’s all I have for today. Hopefully Ill be able to get shots of the mug and my new office soon, I just don’t want to get in too much trouble right away.

Part II.

This is my favorite food of all time. I love this. This is the boneless chicken kabob with lubia polo from Darya on Santa Monica and Bundy.

This is the clean plate.

Beers. I love them. Tony P's with the guys from work.

so...its been a super long time. i dunno what to write about stuff, so im just going to throw up some pics and a short story about each of them. most likely itll end up just being captions. haha...

so these were the new kicks i broke out for turkey day. one of my favorites on their first day of wear.

thanksgiving dinner table at my house. its a little bit more formal than most, but i like it. its not very often that we have formal dinners, only christmas and thanksgiving.

shooting pool with my mechanic Naoto in the OC. i whooped his ass like 5 games in a row or something. he ended up coming back, but i still had the overall lead. he blames his sucking on a crooked cue. i think he just sucked it up for a bit. haha

these two pics are from last saturday night out in hermosa beach at Beaches. we got some free shots from this random dude that just moved to LA. he was cool for sure.