Hair Cuts All Around

Came home Friday and went to get a hair cut with Sam at this place he wanted to try out. Basically it was run by this really nice lady who is basically a mail order bride. No joke. She is like 29 and lives with her 70 year old husband. It's weird. Anyways, she was great and we had fun talking with her and getting her laughing and stuff.

I've got three more days left at work but basically no one will be there for various reasons, so I had to exchange some hearty handshakes and good-byes. It will actually be me and the other MSSM alum holding down the fort which will be kind of cool. One of our guys is headed on a trip to Intertek where we will be attempting to certify our inverter for the first time. The testing includes a variety of stuff from a rain test to the epically hilarious reverse DC polarity test. The way you pass the latter is by not having molten metal dripping from the box at any point during the test. Yes, you literally just have to make sure the device doesn't melt.... completely. They basically do EXACTLY the wrong thing to your device and sit back and watch them fail. Did I mention a few of theses tests are destructive?

Anyways, I hit a couple of garage sales today and picked up a table for our house at school as well as a $2 pull-up bar, score. Talked cars for a while with my uncle Karl today, what a boss. Also helped Sam split a bunch of wood for his folks, we got pretty sweaty but some beers and a dip in the pool helped that. Sam's parents collected a bunch of monarch caterpillars and have been watching them build cocoons and stuff. It was actually pretty neat to seem them in various stages of transformation. The cool thing about monarch butterflies is there awesome migration. They fly from as far North as Canada down to Mexico and they're actually capable of trans-atlantic journeys. Typically though no one butterfly will make migration down to Mexico and back, they usually lay eggs for the next generation of badasses. This kind of blew my mind a little bit because they're just so small and fragile. It is pretty amazing they can fly and navigate that far.

Also, I second Ian's observation. What is this, amateur hour Tyler?