Paul Grayson

How do you measure a year?

FISCAL YEAR END
October for many large companies is the month that their financial year ends.  September is then the month that a great amount of scurrying about is done to wrap up the loose ends.  This is also a good time to take a look at we as individuals hope to accomplish in the coming year and do some planning.  The musical, RENT, poses an interesting question in its trailer and opening song: "How do you measure a year?"  A year has 365 days, 525,600 minutes, or 31,536,000 seconds depending on how you slice it for your day planner.  This time next year what do you want to look back and see that you have done in the 525,600 minutes between then and now?  I am working on my list.  I will let you know what is on it when I get a little farther along.   I will give you some time so that you can make your own list and then we can compare them.  

AMAZINGLY GOOD LUCK
I changed my spam filter settings and it has resulted in apparently good fortune for the AIM TEAM.  I have recieved e-mails this past week that informed me that a person named Wendy Jones is dieing and wants to leave the AIM Team her oil company, I just need to contact her lawyer in Nigeria to work out the details.  Also this week the AIM Team has won the Irish Sweepstakes E700,000.00 witch is amazingly good luck to have done this without buying a ticket.   We just need to contact an address in the UK to work out the details.  You probably get e-mails telling you that you have simmilarly good luck.  It is the though that counts, right?  The idea that someone would leave the team their oil company in their will or that the team would win the Irish Sweepstakes is great fun.   Oh, the moral of this story, keep your spam filter settings high.

TEEJET
A golf course equipment catalog arrived and included your commonly available $1,440.00 vehicle guidance system.  This particular one is the TeeJet 230 which is sized and priced to replace foam marking systems for keeping track of where you have been when spraying chemicals.  Other models are available with increasing capability and price until you reach about $20,000 which stops just short of being able to leave the driver out of the cab.

GO ROBOTS !

Paul F. Grayson - Chief Engineer
AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL MAGIC, LLC
Racing to build technology that saves soldier's lives.
390 4-Mile Rd. S.
Traverse City, MI 49686-8411
(231) 946-0187, (231) 883-4463 Cell
pgrayson@aimagic.org
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Posted by Paul Grayson on September 1, 2008 | Comments (0)