Luke Oliver

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30: "You keep talkin' to yourself, people gon' think you're crazy"

The line above is a quote from the masterpiece that is 2006's Cars. I quoted it today at one of my coworkers, after I overheard her talking to herself. I don't think she got the reference, but alas, my quips frequently fall upon ears that aren&

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29: Finally a reasonable start

I'm starting this post at the remarkably early time of 9:15. This isn't because I'm tired, but because I will be at around 11, when I would normally start my post. Today was relatively uneventful, but necessary. I got out of bed around

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28: "Hey, are you a professional?"

Today was good, and filled with interesting interactions. I got up at ~9:30 and went to downtown DC, which was cool, again. By "cool" I of course do not mean temperature-wise, it was a solid 85 degrees and 80% humidity. I took my skateboard this time, which

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27: I wanna go to six flags

Title is true and accurate. I wanna go to six flags. Six Flags America is the one that's in the DC area, and it's accessible by transit (it's two hours, but that's doable). Tickets are like $30, which blew me away, and

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26: Something vaguely optimistic

I had a pretty good day today, work was work, I finished my mechanical work and escaped Tagging Jail, and then after work we had a Happy Hour and Trivia night at a nearby bar, which was really fun. There were 17 of us, including Max, the game-master, so we

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25: Pretty Slow Today

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24: Tagging Jail

The interns have made it a thing to call whatever work we get assigned "___ jail", and since today I was doing primarily tagging, I was put in "tagging jail". Referring to the time as "jail" isn't really derogatory, but it does imply

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23: My first day as a mechanical engineer

Today was good! The title is in reference to my newfound role as a MechE intern. The Mechanical team at work doesn't have any interns, but electrical has eight, so they assigned a couple of us to work with mechanical on a project that they need done ASAP.

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22: Adventure Time

Come on, grab your friends! I keep getting derailed while I try to make this post, whoops.

21: Hermit Mode

Well, seeing as it is now 12:04 AM, I can conclusively say that I had less than 1000 steps on July 19th (otherwise known as "today", or if you're a pedant, "yesterday"). Today was a little bit of a fever dream, because I

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20: Site visit go Brrrrrr

Site visit this morning, was really cool. The building wasn't very complete, so we didn't get to see much finalized equipment, but we did see some UPSs, Transformers, Switchgear, CRAHs, RTUs, and PDUs. I won't explain what those mean, but they were all parts

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19: I hate math.

The title of this post is about how addition is lame. I was looking at my credit card everything because an order for something was taking a while and I wanted to investigate (they cancelled it because they ran out of stock), but while I was there my credit balance

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18: Another Day, Another Crossword

My gut reaction to this title was thinking that I had already named one of my posts this, I am truly going to run out of creative titles in the near future. I do, however, do the crossword almost every day. I had a great 13-day streak going until this

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17: A pretty good day, all things considered

Hello hello hello hello. Today... was a pretty good day. The new Destiny expansion launched this morning, so of course I left work early (because I got there early this morning, and only like 30 mins, chill) to play it. I had neglected, however, to use my brain and leave

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16: Thing: Fixed!

I was informed this morning that the breakthrough I made in yesterday's post didn't quite work, as I had never gotten the systems to have people make accounts and become members to work in the first place. I had a hunch what that would require, but

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15: Let's see if I can fix it this time

This again. I really want to get the functionality of having a public part of a post and a members-only part, but I didn't get it to work the other day, and I've managed to get myself into the same situation again (it's late,

14: Well, that didn't go as intended.

The whole thing that yesterday's post was about... didn't work. I'm sure that I'm simply using the tools at my disposal incorrectly, but I didn't have the time today to figure it out nor solve that problem. Today was busy,

13: Big

Huge, even. I figured something super useful out while I was messing with the blog today. I'm building a photography portfolio in it, and I'm super happy with how it's going so far, but I've learned a lot about Ghost's

12: I am quickly going to run out of titles

What the title says. I like to think that I'm a decently creative person, but a new, fun, at least mildly interesting title every single day is a hard ask. I've made it this far, what, a week and a half? I don't think

11: Whew!

I almost forgot to write this one! I just got in bed and played Breath of the Wild for an hour or so, and I was about to go to sleep when I realized I had forgotten to post!! There isn't much today, and I'm on

10: I hate horror movies

Lots of stuff today, all of it good! First things first: my feet are feeling a lot better! I've been struggling the last couple weeks because my feet have never been skateboarding before, so the new motion and combination of muscle movements for close ~45 minutes a day,

9: Another Day, Another Day

One of the other interns said this (the title) today, and I thought it was great. I am quickly going to run out of creative titles for these posts, so stealing quotes from other people throughout the day will probably work quite well. Today was relatively standard for this summer,

8: "Alarm set for 4 h and 41 min from now"

Oh boy. This one I'm going to leave as short as I can, because the title of this post is what my phone just said when I reactivated my alarm for the work week. I don't have any food for breakfast, and I definitely don'

7: Eepy

I'll keep this one short, because I am tired, and it is very late. Today was a good day, a simple weekend. I got out of bed at ~10:30, went to visit my sister at the ski resort she works at, brought her lunch and hung out

6: Appy Ourth Uly!

Made it! I made it home, after being only slightly delayed and gaslit by TSA, to attend a party with some old family friends, then hang out with some of my best friends from home and set off fireworks; a perfect fourth of July if you ask me. Two TSA