Sabbatical...

Probably the best thing about working for Intel, is the sabbatical program. Every 7 years of work, you get a 2 month sabbatical, this can be added to with vacation time to take almost 4 months off work! Pretty awesome that a company so big still follows through with this. As your time of eligibility aproaches, it's pretty much all anyone talks about.

Most people travel to far away lands, spend time with friends/family, work on that home project that you've been meaning to get to, or a favorite hobby. We'll my manager is coming back from his next week, and tradition is, you "decorate" or make a mess in the person's cube for when they get back. Might not be the most productive way to get back to work after being gone for months, but can't change that now...

Well my boss has been spending most of his sabbatical up in Northern Arizona at his cabin and with his family, and has been on a few different hunting trips. He's currently still up there Elk Hunting with his bow right now. So as for decorations we decided to wallpaper his office with hunting targets/hay/leaves/camouflage, this wasn't quite enough and needed a little more... So I went online and found some pictures of a Elk and a Deer, used a software program to trace them out and cut them out using a piece of equipment to make these cardboard cut outs.

The Elk is walking through the middle of his office just past the storage cabinet, the deer is jumping out, and since he hadn't killed anything yet, all the arrows we cut out are missing. Should find out Monday if he actually got anything or not, and we might have to do some re-arranging...

PS: I'm Eligible July '11, not that I'm counting or anything...

Challenge...

So, after a lot of travel and even more drinking lately. I decided at the airport in Ft. Walton, FL with some help from a friend (my sponsor, haha), that my liver needed a break. That was a good Yuengling though. And I decided to stop drinking!

I wasn't sure if I'd put anything up on the Blog cause I hate to fail and wouldn't want to admit it if I cracked. But it's been 2 weeks now. I survived 2 hockey games, lots of drinking after games, especially after wins. A Cardinals tailgate, which drinking water while tailgating is horrible and definitely not as much fun... As well as today's Cardinals/Rams game, which in the 4th qtr the Cardinals almost gave up the lead, 3 or 4 times! If that doesn't make someone want to drink I don't know what would? And a couple of nights out with friends, who doesn't need a DD...

Pretty weird not having a beer every now and then. I saw a commercial the other day for Miller Light (I don't even like Miller Light), where the guy orders with his Iphone, got a little jealous. Reminded my of Henry's in downtown Portland, maybe that was part of it too. I've also got a bottle of Marshall Sundown Wheat, and a special Rogue beer I picked up a few weeks ago on the bottom shelf of my fridge that clink together everytime I open/close the door. So frustrating.

The exception to this is gonna be holidays and special occasions. Glass of wine at Thanksgiving/X-mas. But if I can last till New Years then I'll consider it a success...and who knows, maybe even keep it going till my b-day(March). Although hoping I don't run into John Krause anytime soon...

So far so good!