Not A Week For The Weak

Take heed, fair citizens. This is National Engineers Week! U.S. presidents get a day. Workers get their own day. The nation gets an independence day. Football and turkey get a day. Jesus gets his birthday. Love just had a day. Somebody, who was very smart, recognized that engineers deserve AN ENTIRE WEEK! Engineers are so awesome that they, like an ideal gas, can expand to fill whatever time period they are allotted. I recommend some activities that everybody can enjoy to celebrate the week:

• Hug an engineer. He will not respond, because he has no emotions, but he probably appreciates it. Or at least doesn't resent it.
• Take something apart. Then put it back together...
• ... if it still works, disassemble it again, modify that something to make it perform better, and reassemble. Repeat until it ceases to work.
• Read some instructions, and follow most of them.
• Watch the History Channel
• Learn the binary number system
• Make observations of the things around you that have no significant impact on anything
• Read J.R.R. Tolkien

My favorite part about the official National Engineers Week web site hyperlinked above is the "introduce a girl to engineering" section. I introduced Wifey to engineering, and continue to introduce her to it every day after I return from work, and... it's not winning her over.

This is but a brief sample of the awesomeness that you can enjoy this week. I just feel bad for the people who only get to feel like engineers for a single week out of the year.