Art, climbing and other stuff

Thanks to Teresa, I have some pictures from my rock wall climbing adventure in AR over the summer. If you look up and to the right you'll see a metal bar sticking out, that's the top of where I was going towards. You can also see where the "rock" begins to curve, that's about where I lost my footing/grip and went on the downward part of my journey. I think you can get a decent idea of how far up we were by looking at the trees around us. You can also notice Teresa's daughter doesn't have enough weight on her to actually have to touch the wall. She could have hung there all day. I did not suffer this same problem.

I keep forgetting to mention that I purchased an actual piece of art during the Fine Art Fair that was held about 3 weeks ago. I've only gone to it one other time. The piece I bought is called "Reder." It was done by Chris Vance, an artist from Iowa. Yes, they have artists there...who knew? Anyway, it is technically a painting I suppose, but it wasn't done on canvas, it's on some sort of wood instead. It's abstract, which normally isn't my thing, but I was instantly drawn to his work as we walked by his section of the show. His style reminds me of Radiohead album art and the work of Ben Templesmith, who is an illustrator for the 30 Days Of Night comic...among other things. You can take a peak at the sort of thing I got by going to www.moberggallery.com/vance_portfolio.shtml.

Couple of quick weird-ish things:

At work: Because one of the managers left out a sheet of paper that has all of the employee log in numbers listed on it, we all have to come up with new numbers for ourselves. These are the numbers we use not only for the computer system, but also for the cash registers.

The most annoying person at work, who doesn't really ever seem to work, is being shifted to a position I didn't even know existed. I still think we made it up to tell the truth. This person is going to be the main person responsible for helping customers and training other employees in this area. This is the same person who still calls back to my department with questions on how to do orders. I'm very afraid.

One of our employees tried to sign on to a PDT (we use them to scan bar codes...you've seen similar things at the grocery store, Wally World, etc.) but was having trouble. I asked her if I could help and told her she needed to log in just like she did up at the cash registers or the computers at info. I told her to enter her ID and then her password. I noticed she was hitting the letters buttons for her ID. Now, our ID and password are numerical. I said, "you know, the numbers you use to log in with...?" She said, "OH, I thought 'user name' meant I needed to put in my name." Errr...not so much. And I thought I knew nothing about computers.