81. Bring on the fembots!

81. "Espionage" by Green Day

While I was working on a grant between Utah State University and the Utah Department of Public Safety, I basically worked from home. The idea sounds nice at first. But the problem with it is that at some point you realize that you're never away from work when you're at home. That work mostly consisted of writing a training manual for people that trained first responders throughout the state. To add a little fun to my spend-all-day-in-the-unfinished-basement job, I bought a bunch of secret agent music and played it while I typed because it made me feel like I was a spy on a top-secret mission and had to hack into a mainframe computer to keep the world from blowing up. And the best spy song that I discovered was "Espionage" by Green Day. They wrote it for the Austin Powers movie.



About a week after I finished writing the training manual, they put in new leadership at the Utah Highway Patrol, which was the agency I worked with on the grant. They promptly fired me as part of their budget restructuring. And they changed all their plans for offering training to first responders. I don't think they ever used my training manual. The whole job turned out to be a huge waste of time. But at least I got a good song out of it.