Late night = Late morning

Well, here I am; strolling into the office at an exceptional 11AM... Late night last night with 2 of the boys whom I haven't seen in quite some time. One of the greatest things about working for this firm is the flexibility in terms of time. As long as you are filling 40 hours throughout the week and keeping it more or less to 8(ish) per day - nobody cares, thus a lot of people have different 'personal' schedules.

Enough of that; now, the markets...good thing yesterday's post was before they opened because I took a huge hit on all my big boys (GOOG, AAPL, RIMM, GS, NKE, KO, etc.), but today is looking up! with RIMM kicking ass at a solid 2.63% up from yesterday, but all in the portfolio are green - meaning no losses today, but lets see what happens at 4:30PM. Hmmm...what to speak about engineering related... I am trying to post each day, but there isn't always something super interesting to post about - yesterday I designed a small chamber for a co-worker who has a submission date coming up... The accountant next to me is annoying when she argues back and forth with the Project Controls specialist... I guess today is going to be slow, I'll make revisions to the chamber design as per the structural and projects leads, and I'll continue modifying my Watermain model to annotate the field verified information - nothing big today, its a Tuesday....right...?

Cool Shit. I want to start posting cool shit about once a week, as I come across it - This is completely bias because its shit that I think is cool and/or new. Now it won't be the same day every week because that will force me to post anything. No cool shit next week? no post. This will also save me on days when there really isn't anything to speak about.

This Weeks Cool Shit: The new Audi RS5. Why it's cool? because I'm an Audi nut, its fast powerful and sexy. Period. Biggest problem - pricing. Some German will be shot at dawn for his mistakes - but goodness it is a glorious machine, I anxiously await the Nurburgring time and Jeremy Clarkson's review (the only two things that matter in the end). Now I want to talk about the pricing problem with it. It's $104,000 USD. Why is that a problem, aside from it being out of 85% of the population's grasp, is what it offers. It's supposed to be the M3 killer (as in the new V8 E92 model, not the straight 6 E46). The M has a 4.0L V8 under the bonnet pushing out 414hp, while this has the 4.2 V8 you see in a lot of Audi cars, just this one is tuned a little bit otherwise, you might as well save 40k and buy an RS4 (another super machine) This car does not compete with the M3, the price difference is over 20k, and therefor are in different financial leagues, will the Audi beat the m3 regardless of finances? Likely, the all wheel drive will help in power circuits, but in most courses the M differential in the real wheel, high revving M3 will be something hard to topple. We shall see what JC thinks though. Image will be attached to this post. Well let me knock off the day, my father's birthday today, I'm still groggy and can use some caffeine. Hopefully the markets do well, and Americans stop trying to sue each other for everything.