Recently I got a new pair of glasses.  When they finally came in, I went to my eye doctor’s office to pick them up.  As they usually do, they had me try on the new glasses, and the optometrist took them to the back to adjust them so they weren’t terrible crooked.  He comes back, hands them to me and says

“There, that should be better.  Oh, whoops, I put a fingerprint on them”

Immediately I think nothing of it, and begin to bring my new pair of glasses to my shirt to clean them off.

As I bring my glasses to my shirt, the optometrist’s reaction was as if I had just committed a mortal sin.  He reached halfway across the table straining to stop my action.

“Nooooooooo….” he cried.

“NEVER clean your glasses with your clothes!  They contain laundry detergent that can scratch your new lenses!  That is like driving around in your car with very low oil in front of a mechanic!”

He immediately hands me two ’special’ lens cleaning cloths and gives me a quick lecture on how much I just spent on these glasses and how I should take care of them properly.

I never knew there existed such passion for glasses.

Teleconferences are rarely unique. Last week, I arrived at a morning teleconference a bit early. It was just me and this older gentleman who was running the meeting. He dialed in to AT&T as usual to get the conference up and running. After he dials, a dark voiced woman recording answers…

“Hello, you have reached the sexy hotline of…”

Needless to say, he hangs up quickly, face turns a darker shade of red, looks around a bit flabbergasted to see who else noticed that, only to see me. I know thats not the normal AT&T operators voice I’ve heard before.

Three weeks into my new job at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics and things are going very smoothly.

As it turns out, two other Hope grads started the same date I did, but at the Lockheed Martin. Both Ben and Amanda accepted positions there recently. So including Kevin who works at Lockheed Martin, that brings the number of Hope grads from my class working at Lockheed Martin up to at least 4. Considering my engineering class graduated about 14 people, that is a pretty large portion. Not to mention one of our engineering professors from Hope now works at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control as well.

So yeah, I’m a working man. Now my dad should be satisfied that I am “putting my money towards his social security fund”.

Hey Dmitri….slacking on your quota!