More New Job Stuff

My new group members at my new job took me out for a birthday luncheon and I offered to drive. There were 5 of us to ride in my Malibu. I told them that even though Mali has 5 seatbelts, seating 5 adults is a bit of a stretch but nobody else wanted to drive. The best quote came when the three people in the back were trying to buckle their seatbelts (we’re all safety retraints engineers after all) and the girl is feeling around for the seatbelt and says, “What is that?” The guy sitting next to her said, “That’s not a seatbelt.” We all cracked up. Good times.

I’m playing with a new (to me) CAD software package at work called Solidworks. It’s pretty similar to ProE, which I learned at Case. I was going through the online tutorial and got to the “building assemblies” section. That is when you draw up a bunch of parts and then put them together in one file an organized fashion. “Putting them together in an organized fashion” is a process called “mating” in SW. And boy was I having a hard time mating. I finally had to ask the resident expert in SW over. I said, “Now, I don’t want to sound to forward, but I need you to teach me about mating.” Of course, he gave me a smart aleck response, “I’m not sure how the wife will feel about that…”