Day 14 – The beginning of the end!

Thursday May 16, 2013

As expected I woke up feeling great, full of energy and ready to take on a day of work. 

It’s Co-op Season at work this month. What that means for me is that some people, they wouldn’t be in HR cause they could never let something like this slip by year after year, well these people think that they will get the same response they get when a single new person gets setup in the workplace as would a hundred new people all at the same time. Idiotic, I know huh?

So basically everybody wants everything at once. I wish it worked that way, but it doesn’t and your answer is no, is basically my response because everyone that knows me will call and ask can you do me a favor? I got a new intern that needs to get setup. Can you do me a favor? I have half the plant calling me and asking me to do them a favor, can you save your favor for something that you really need and not help sailing the sea of stupidity.

That was work today. That will be work tomorrow and the day after that…..

But, this is Co-op Season! I get to meet some of the new talent that is going to get their feet wet over here. We only pick the best of the best. Seriously only the top of the top of the class does internships here. I watched new interns from a few years ago start as engineering grunts and move up to management and lead engineering roles in a couple of years. I think that’s just awesome! 

We get a lot of people that once they understand how to run with the ball on the project that their on, they shine, and they shine bright! We have an awesome leadership program here that really gives these young minds an opportunity to really learn from veteran aviation engineers that have been in the field 30-40 years. So I get to see some old faces returning for another internship and hear about the last project they worked on and what their moving into now.

I went to the Dr. today for a checkup on the lymph node biopsy that was removed. Dr. said that everything is looking just great. They did an awesome job! They really did! It looks good. The scar will fade. It’s healing well because I’m taking good care of it.

Now the fun part. Hair loss is in my immediate forecast. I brushed a glob out this morning, at work and when I got home. There isn’t anything I can do about it except bitch like a whinny child.

Here’s what I wonder? Why the @%^ing hair? Everything you go through in life, it’s the hair! I work with guys (gorillas) that are walking hairballs with no hair on their heads. We’ve made some great strides in medical research and technology, but we can’t keep the hair on our $^!^$ heads.

Why can’t it be different?!? Why can’t I go the doctor and find out that I have cancer and he says something like, well I’ve got some concerning news about the side effects of the treatment that you going to receive. I don’t want you to worry, but, I don't know how to tell you this…. You’re going to lose the hair on your legs.  It’ll grow back. I see you have a lovely coat of hair on your legs, it’ll just grow back thinner, but it’ll grow back. Of all the hair on the human body why the head?!?

So now I’m hunting for a scally cap. That might take my entire Saturday because it’s something that I want. Anyone that has ever been on one of my personal missions knows what I’m in for. I could be looking for money in a bank and I’m not going to find it because I need it. Like the bathrobe. I couldn’t find a bathrobe. Bathrobes have a season! And I dared look for a bathrobe off season.

Why a Scally Cap “The Dellag” Cause my Brother from another mother Ronnie told me so! If he says that’s the hat, then that’s the hat I’m getting.

I’m going to take some silly pictures as it falls out. Some with a comb over, some without. I’m going to get a couple of different dress shirts that I hate and take pictures with friends just to see if other people know just who their in the photo with.

Ya gotta have fun!

If I can’t have a laugh at my own expense through this, then I lose the battle.

So I’m going to get ready to join my brothers in baldness. I know, you’ve been waiting for me. I’ve seen the sneering snickers you’ve given me over the years. “One of these days”, “One…. Of…. These… Days…..”, (magical poof cloud) BALD!!! Then he’ll know what it’s like. 

I don’t know how you guys go around the way you do. If I can’t have a plush garden, then off with it! No ring around the top for me! No well it grows nice and full in the back. Like the top of your head is the search tower for the hair in the back. Some people have a head of hair and some people look like there is a head growing atop of their hair. Like moss around the bottom of a rock. Bald or not I love you guys and I'm ready to join your silly little club!