Random Interests

Apparently there was an earthquake near here on Sunday.  I was gone for the weekend, so I didn't feel it.  Some people at work said they felt it - mostly people who were inside.  Others at work said they didn't feel it at all.  It was only a 4.0 or 4.2 or something, so it was minor.  Speaking of earthquakes, a guy I sit next to at work is from Nepal.  His family is all safe, but I'm sure that hits home pretty hard, especially when you're halfway around the globe and can't see or touch your relatives back home.

Here are a couple interesting things I found on facebook today.  I hate to be unoriginal and promote a competitor, but I thought this was really interesting on how people view and treat new ideas.  Thanks Jax for the link!

I also found this article on lasting relationships interesting.  It's focused on married couples and is maybe common sense, but it's kind of related to something I was thinking about work.  It seems like my motivation level at work has been variable lately.  Part of it is due to "normal" organizational changes.  But I was also wondering if I needed to be concerned that I was focusing on the negative and not making an effort to see the positive.  One of my mentors mentioned yesterday that we need to take time to celebrate successes.  As an engineer, it can be too easy to get stuck in the engineering dungeon crushing rocks, and when we finish one load of rocks, another load of rocks gets dumped on us.  If we don't lift our head up once in a while to look at things and celebrate a load of rocks being finished, it's easy to become discouraged.

Related to work, I was also thinking that we need to have patience with others sometimes when mistakes are repeated and lessons aren't learned.  God has patience with our shortcomings every day, right?  Why shouldn't we be doing the same for others?

That's all I have for now.