I have not written in over a month.
It's not like I haven't been thinking, more like I have been thinking things that I want to keep in my own head to mull over. Maybe if these different trains of thought develop themselves enough or if the trigger events get far enough into the past I will want to share, but not right now.
I have been doing a lot of self evaluation.
I decided a while ago that I should learn more about the power plant I work in. I am of the thought that all learning is useful and applicable, even if not in a superficially perceptible way.
For example, I am reading a 1950's textbook on steam generation and its uses that was produced by the company that also made a lot of the original equipment for the power plant. It is very interesting, and it is a very brain intensive work out as I have to constantly be evaluating the information..."is this a subject that has changed over the past 50+ years, or is it solid science that has stayed the same?"...and "how does this information jive with or fill in the gaps of my education of building practices, physics, material properties, and chemical behaviors?"...and "so this would be applicable to the little power plant that I work in, and this other thing shows more of what happens in a large power plant like IPP, a plant some of my family works at".
I like it.
And, as I am doing so, I am finding that I understand more of what the supervisors are saying about different projects on different pieces of equipment. And this helps in cool ways like in understand the budgets better and being able to bridge the gaps in understanding between all of the different groups I deal with; accounting, work control, preventative maintenance, and human resources, to name a few.
I get all excited and then want to get a couple more degrees.
Which is not feasible at the immediate moment.
But I totally want to be a perpetual student.
But I also want to be a lot of things.
Good thing there is all of eternity to learn the things I want to know.
Namely Everything.
It's not like I haven't been thinking, more like I have been thinking things that I want to keep in my own head to mull over. Maybe if these different trains of thought develop themselves enough or if the trigger events get far enough into the past I will want to share, but not right now.
I have been doing a lot of self evaluation.
I decided a while ago that I should learn more about the power plant I work in. I am of the thought that all learning is useful and applicable, even if not in a superficially perceptible way.
For example, I am reading a 1950's textbook on steam generation and its uses that was produced by the company that also made a lot of the original equipment for the power plant. It is very interesting, and it is a very brain intensive work out as I have to constantly be evaluating the information..."is this a subject that has changed over the past 50+ years, or is it solid science that has stayed the same?"...and "how does this information jive with or fill in the gaps of my education of building practices, physics, material properties, and chemical behaviors?"...and "so this would be applicable to the little power plant that I work in, and this other thing shows more of what happens in a large power plant like IPP, a plant some of my family works at".
I like it.
And, as I am doing so, I am finding that I understand more of what the supervisors are saying about different projects on different pieces of equipment. And this helps in cool ways like in understand the budgets better and being able to bridge the gaps in understanding between all of the different groups I deal with; accounting, work control, preventative maintenance, and human resources, to name a few.
I get all excited and then want to get a couple more degrees.
Which is not feasible at the immediate moment.
But I totally want to be a perpetual student.
But I also want to be a lot of things.
Good thing there is all of eternity to learn the things I want to know.
Namely Everything.
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