Happenings

Ross got a new car! A new old car, that is. I should post a picture, but I don't have one... no wait, his digital camera is sitting right here and it DOES have a pic of the car on it. Wow, I love modern technology. So here it is - a 1967 MGB GT. And this picture just happens to have the Jaguar behind it, and the '63 Ford Econoline behind the Jaguar. Ross' menagerie.

Why, you may ask, did Ross buy a '67 MGB? Well, because some guy has wanted to buy his '97 GTI for over a year now, and when that guy asked Ross recently if he wanted to sell yet Ross decided that he did indeed want to. The GTI was in fairly good shape but had some problems that Ross just didn't want to deal with and it seemed an opportune time.

We made beer. Should have taken pictures of that. It is now sitting in the fermenter, fermenting. We will bottle it next Wednesday. Exciting. We have an ambition to make labels for this batch of beer; we will be known as Bouvier Breweries, and this batch will be called Rust Bucket Bitters.

There are upheavals and changes at my workplace. The times have been a-changin' for a while... CEO out, new management group in, and some of the big changes are starting to be enacted. I am now the sole sculptor. As of today my co-workers Diane and Betsy were out. It was a terrible, weird, unpleasant day. We were all freaked out and sad and upset about this. The new management has decided that the majority of the sculpting will be done overseas, but it is advantageous to keep one sculptor in-house for last-minute changes, photo shoots, etc. I'm still in a daze, and I'm sure that Betsy and Diane are worse. I hesitate to rant about my anger and frustration. Suffice it to say that Betsy and Diane were doing excellent work, and the people who are ultimately responsible for the bad decisions that have led to the sorry state of the company have not felt any pain in this matter. In fact, they finagled gigantic golden parachutes for themselves.

Argh.