They can't get anything right...

So, The New York Times approval rating has fallen to a dismal 24%, haha! Thats even lower that George Bush's current 34%. And what's even funnier, the current congress approval rating is 22%. I can't wait until Barack Obama has to starting talking policy over platitudes...

Concatenate!

The other day, I made it my goal to use the CONCATENATE function in Excel at work for something meaningful...and today I did! I was running a bunch of queries in Access, and for the criteria for the queries I had to input anywhere between 20 and 70 six digit meter station numbers...about 7 different times. I had already ran a query to get these numbers and imported it into Excel, and then I used the concatenate function to put all of the desired meter numbers in a text string with an "OR" statement in between each one. It was awesome. Also, I have listed below another interesting formula that I used the other day in Excel.

=IF(ISERR(SEARCH("check",B2))=TRUE,"","YES")

I can't even remember what I used it for, but I remember thinking that it looked kind of crazy so I e-mailed it to myself, haha.
In other news, I think I aggravated my IT band so I don't think that I will be running for awhile.

The Battle is On

Chad vs. Winflow Natural Gas Pipeline Simulation Software
Monday: L
Tuesday: Draw
Wednesday: W
Thursday: W
Friday: L

Chad vs. The Nameplate on My Cubicle
January 14th - February 21st: L
February 22nd: W

I Like Chocolate Milk

Today's accomplishments:

1. 2000 meter swim, 5K run, 41 minutes on the trainer on the new bike
2. significant progress in modeling natural gas pipelines
3. continued to stay up to date on my Rush Limbaugh podcast
4. wished MiMi happy birthday
5. bought groceries (I was craving chocolate milk, so I bought a few cartons)

Today...

I have a new bike now. No, I'm not selling my other one.
Wendy's fries are dominant
I own shortcut keys.
The Office and 30 Rock are very good shows.
My alarm goes off in 6 hours.
I'm currently addicted to The Academy Is...

New Bike

I'm buying a TT bike, wohoo! I figured I needed to go ahead and get one so I can get used to riding in the aero bars before the triathlon season starts. Here it is:


I'm going to pick it up on Monday afternoon when I get off work. I think I may get a trainer too.

Things to Do

In the next 4 days...

1. get some sleep
2. shop for a new time trial bike
3. buy a new bike and a trainer
4. ride my new bike, on road and on new trainer
5. sweat
6. get paid
7. play with natural gas pipelines
8. use the CONCATENATE function in Excel for something meaningful
9. listen to another painful Obama speech
10. continue to realize that the United States is so desperately in need of conservatism