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Building Calluses

Dean — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:52:01 +0000

Here’s a quickie for this week while I pack up for my trip to New York (and expect there to be LOTS of updates after I get back)…

So Dave let me borrow his guitar (a Yamaha FG-04 LTD) for the summer, but when he got back from his California vacation, he was broke. So, he sold it to me! I am most happy with the purchase, it sounds great and I love to play it when I get home from work and want to unwind. However, she needs new strings and a name. Any suggestions?

PS. Work is now over, yay! It’s sort of bittersweet after working there for 4 summers. I should’ve taken some photos of the cubicle jungle I lived in and friendly faces at the office but that probably would not have gone over too well with the awesome Motorola NDA that I signed. Plus I’d probably creep everyone in the office out. But I guess that comes with the territory.

Have you Ever Been Tea-Bagging?

Dean — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:27:57 +0000

My group of Moto intern friends and I had an “End of Summer BBQ” on Thursday night that was originally planned to be at Independnce Grove in Libertyville, but was moved indoors to Elissa’s huge apartment in Gurnee because of inclement weather.

The food was yummers and we made smores over Lisa’s stove because the coals died on the grill.

Before we left we took some pretty epic photo booth style pictures. I need to work on the amount of faces I can make, because apparently I only have like 3 expressions (happy, ecstatic, and inquisitive about awkward-turtle):

Wildberry

Dean — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:25:53 +0000

Intern Lunch 4! Considering most everyone went, no one brought their lunch, and we didn’t crash into any sidewalks, I’d consider it a success! haha. Wildeberry is delicious. :-)

Unleashing Our Moto

Dean — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:05:45 +0000

On Friday, instead of coming into the office, most of the interns from work volunteered at the Busse Forrest Preserve in Schaumberg to participate in a “Day of Service / Social Event.” There were a lot of cool pictures to be had, like interns chopping down invasive plants like buckthorn (and baby oak trees.. oops) and doing controlled burns of the stuff they cut, but I was relegated to trash pickup duty and didn’t really get to see any action. Other than stuff burning, I did get to see a lot of cool things around the park (like lakes, bridges, and a family of geese) but instead of carrying a 1D-mk III around with me, I decided to shed the extra weight and focus on my duties as a garbage-man. After 3 hours of trash pick up, I can say with confidence that I am now considering a career change.

Anyway, we had lunch back at HQ. Here’s some photos of my fellow engineering interns out of Libertyville:

Shawn brings up the topic of either Sanjay or Palin.

Lynn joins in the conversation is bored by the guy talk (hot girls, airplanes, and the Florida Marlins). :-P

Lisa looks so poor (not really, but I just wanted to include this joke somewhere in the post).

Jess and Ayo on the other side of the table are motivated by Motorola execs.

Shawn gets ready to ask the hard-hitting questions that need to be answered.

Share the Ride

Dean — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:39:50 +0000

Decided to take the ol’ SLR to work yesterday. Here’s a few on the 40 minute Metra ride in the morning.