Good News...
Finally got off my butt and took the first of 9 Exams to get my architecture license back at the beginning of this month. Got my results today.
PASS.
Needless to say, I did the happy dance.
...8 more to go...Need to do it in a five year time frame...Before 2011!
Family coming into town tomorrow for Christmas...Much prep to be done!
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Weird, Funny, Kinda Neat...
An interesting thing happened at work today...I had an engineer come to our office completely Flummoxed (the word he used...great word!) on how to build something I designed...
...I consider that an Architectural Triumph.
We got it figured out though, everybody went away happy. :)
An interesting thing happened at work today...I had an engineer come to our office completely Flummoxed (the word he used...great word!) on how to build something I designed...
...I consider that an Architectural Triumph.
We got it figured out though, everybody went away happy. :)
Friday, October 27, 2006
Friday, October 20, 2006
Life in general...
The work is proceeding, gettin' a bit older, Turned 35 last week not entirely sure I am OK with it...Feeling old and then my Family gives me Legos and a voice activated R2-D2, which really reminds me how much I am still just a big kid, which made me feel a whole lot better. We have a lot of "young-uns" at the office (30 and under) and now I am a "them" instead of an "us" so I am caught between being the youngest "them" but one of the oldest besides the "thems".
I tell ya, son, it's been a heck of a year...Got a new car, kissed a girl or two and got promoted, buildings are going up, learning a lot, things are looking good.
Music group was disbanded, but still doing the occasional solo singing thing...Took a two month break from it, which felt pretty good...Am going to try to not do it so much now. Am helping out with a charity show this weekend, doing songs from Rent, Le Miz, Godspell, and Cole Porter. Feel like a big dork doing it, but it's with a lot of good people, and it's for a good cause.
Saw Queensryche the other day, noted the irony of people cheering for a revolution (they were doing Operation Mindcrime 1 and 2) while people are all sitting in there in there assigned seats.
Working a lot, lot, lot, but it's calming down a bit. My soldier ended up leaving, but the replacement is doing ok.
More later...
The work is proceeding, gettin' a bit older, Turned 35 last week not entirely sure I am OK with it...Feeling old and then my Family gives me Legos and a voice activated R2-D2, which really reminds me how much I am still just a big kid, which made me feel a whole lot better. We have a lot of "young-uns" at the office (30 and under) and now I am a "them" instead of an "us" so I am caught between being the youngest "them" but one of the oldest besides the "thems".
I tell ya, son, it's been a heck of a year...Got a new car, kissed a girl or two and got promoted, buildings are going up, learning a lot, things are looking good.
Music group was disbanded, but still doing the occasional solo singing thing...Took a two month break from it, which felt pretty good...Am going to try to not do it so much now. Am helping out with a charity show this weekend, doing songs from Rent, Le Miz, Godspell, and Cole Porter. Feel like a big dork doing it, but it's with a lot of good people, and it's for a good cause.
Saw Queensryche the other day, noted the irony of people cheering for a revolution (they were doing Operation Mindcrime 1 and 2) while people are all sitting in there in there assigned seats.
Working a lot, lot, lot, but it's calming down a bit. My soldier ended up leaving, but the replacement is doing ok.
More later...
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Free Country....
Heard this song by Pink of all people on the radio on my way home tonight...Surprised me a bit. I haven't heard a protest song in awhile. In a lot of countries this would be known as treason....
Dear Mr. President...
Come take a walk with me
Let's pretend we're just two people andYou're not better than me
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly
What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep
What do you feel when you look in the mirror
Are you proud
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
How do you walk with your head held high
Can you even look me in the eye
And tell me why
Dear Mr. President
Were you a lonely boy
Are you a lonely boy
Are you a lonely boy
How can you say
No child is left behind
We're not dumb and we're not blind
They're all sitting in your cells
While you pay the road to hell
What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
How do you walk with your head held high
Can you even look me in the eye
Let me tell you bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you bout hard work
Hard workHard work
You don't know nothing bout hard work
Hard workHard work
OhHow do you sleep at night
How do you walk with your head held high
Dear Mr. President
You'd never take a walk with me
Would you?
Wow...
Heard this song by Pink of all people on the radio on my way home tonight...Surprised me a bit. I haven't heard a protest song in awhile. In a lot of countries this would be known as treason....
Dear Mr. President...
Come take a walk with me
Let's pretend we're just two people andYou're not better than me
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly
What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep
What do you feel when you look in the mirror
Are you proud
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
How do you walk with your head held high
Can you even look me in the eye
And tell me why
Dear Mr. President
Were you a lonely boy
Are you a lonely boy
Are you a lonely boy
How can you say
No child is left behind
We're not dumb and we're not blind
They're all sitting in your cells
While you pay the road to hell
What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
How do you walk with your head held high
Can you even look me in the eye
Let me tell you bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you bout hard work
Hard workHard work
You don't know nothing bout hard work
Hard workHard work
OhHow do you sleep at night
How do you walk with your head held high
Dear Mr. President
You'd never take a walk with me
Would you?
Wow...
Monday, August 28, 2006
Been a long time...
Ouch! A couple months have gone by...Summer is always nasty for my workaholic-ness, the buildings had to get to a certain point by the end of the summer, so everyone involved has been busting their hump to make it happen, and when you think everything is up and running, BAM! Something else hits the fan. Makes life fun. At least things are mostly working and the kids are in there, and everyone thinks it looks good.
I did take a weekend to go see some folks up in North Carolina, mostly relatives from Dad's side, which was a good time, they are all odd in the cool way, and the clan from Texas just slips right into that as well. It's beautiful up there and the weather is nice as well.
I have seen a ton of movies, Superman Returns, which I still have one thing about that bothered me a bit, but I liked. Me and my friend just had to see Snakes on a Plane, which, hands down,is the funniest movie I saw all summer. Saw A Scanner Darkly the other day, which was really good. Clerks II was enjoyable as well. Saw a bunch of others, but my brain is too temporarily fried to remember...More later!
Ouch! A couple months have gone by...Summer is always nasty for my workaholic-ness, the buildings had to get to a certain point by the end of the summer, so everyone involved has been busting their hump to make it happen, and when you think everything is up and running, BAM! Something else hits the fan. Makes life fun. At least things are mostly working and the kids are in there, and everyone thinks it looks good.
I did take a weekend to go see some folks up in North Carolina, mostly relatives from Dad's side, which was a good time, they are all odd in the cool way, and the clan from Texas just slips right into that as well. It's beautiful up there and the weather is nice as well.
I have seen a ton of movies, Superman Returns, which I still have one thing about that bothered me a bit, but I liked. Me and my friend just had to see Snakes on a Plane, which, hands down,is the funniest movie I saw all summer. Saw A Scanner Darkly the other day, which was really good. Clerks II was enjoyable as well. Saw a bunch of others, but my brain is too temporarily fried to remember...More later!
Friday, June 16, 2006
Becoming one of "them"...
Well, in another batch of work related strangeness, I had the dreaded annual "employee review" (bum bum bummmm!) last week.
Instead of the normal one on one routine, they tell me it's going to be with the 4 bosses, so needless to say I am thinking "what the heck?"
Turns out, they decide to make me one of "them", an "associate" (more bum bum, bummm!"), I say yes, maybe stupidly, I haven't decided yet...More work and more hours are sure to follow, and I already hit 70-80 hrs per week. I have to tame the dreaded product "library" (really a stack of very loosely organized catalogues) and go to the management meeting they have on Monday mornings. The good thing is I have my own parking space and a couple of extra bucks in my pocket.
Apparently, though, this was completely unexpected not only to me but to the rest of the office. I have a couple of people who are barely talking to me because they are upset. One is a really good friend who has more seniority than me, so she is understandably upset. She works really hard, so I feel bad for her. There are two other guys who I can't tell what they think yet, but I have noticed the whole office treats me a little differently, whether jokingly calling me sir or Mr., or just plain not talking to me. Maybe I'm just being paranoid.
So now I have become a "them"...I am not sold on not being an "us" yet.
Well, in another batch of work related strangeness, I had the dreaded annual "employee review" (bum bum bummmm!) last week.
Instead of the normal one on one routine, they tell me it's going to be with the 4 bosses, so needless to say I am thinking "what the heck?"
Turns out, they decide to make me one of "them", an "associate" (more bum bum, bummm!"), I say yes, maybe stupidly, I haven't decided yet...More work and more hours are sure to follow, and I already hit 70-80 hrs per week. I have to tame the dreaded product "library" (really a stack of very loosely organized catalogues) and go to the management meeting they have on Monday mornings. The good thing is I have my own parking space and a couple of extra bucks in my pocket.
Apparently, though, this was completely unexpected not only to me but to the rest of the office. I have a couple of people who are barely talking to me because they are upset. One is a really good friend who has more seniority than me, so she is understandably upset. She works really hard, so I feel bad for her. There are two other guys who I can't tell what they think yet, but I have noticed the whole office treats me a little differently, whether jokingly calling me sir or Mr., or just plain not talking to me. Maybe I'm just being paranoid.
So now I have become a "them"...I am not sold on not being an "us" yet.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Memorial Day Weekend...
Finally got a little break from the office this weekend (Still worked 3 hrs on Sat., though) But I am taking tomorrow off from work to rest and recover a bit from a sinus infection. It's been a couple of months since I updated this sucker, but I have been mostly working the dreaded 80 hr. work week and when I get home I really don't want to get back on the computer.
Things are going well, however...The buildings are starting to go up and actually look like the drawings I did (which actually throws me a bit), so maybe I will post some construction pictures soon. Started keeping up on the summer movies...MI3 is good, X3 is good (not as good as X2, but still good) and Davinci Code was boring to me, but maybe that's because I read the book just before seeing it.
I did take a weekend to go to a cousin's wedding in PA...Extended Italian families are interesting, they don't give a crap if you haven't spoken to or seen them in years, they are happy to feed you good food and get you drunk on really good wine...Folks know how to party! Going to see the Irish half later this summer, should be very similar, but with beer.
More later...
Finally got a little break from the office this weekend (Still worked 3 hrs on Sat., though) But I am taking tomorrow off from work to rest and recover a bit from a sinus infection. It's been a couple of months since I updated this sucker, but I have been mostly working the dreaded 80 hr. work week and when I get home I really don't want to get back on the computer.
Things are going well, however...The buildings are starting to go up and actually look like the drawings I did (which actually throws me a bit), so maybe I will post some construction pictures soon. Started keeping up on the summer movies...MI3 is good, X3 is good (not as good as X2, but still good) and Davinci Code was boring to me, but maybe that's because I read the book just before seeing it.
I did take a weekend to go to a cousin's wedding in PA...Extended Italian families are interesting, they don't give a crap if you haven't spoken to or seen them in years, they are happy to feed you good food and get you drunk on really good wine...Folks know how to party! Going to see the Irish half later this summer, should be very similar, but with beer.
More later...
Friday, March 24, 2006
Work work work work....Been awhile since my last post, I know. I have been busy working on the above building for the last month. I am excited about it, first college campus building, I hope everything goes well with it (knock on wood). The plans went out to bid today, so I have a slight breather and catch up before it all hits the fan this summer, with this and the high school going full out. Time to catch up with all my friends I have been neglecting.
More info here....http://www.alvincollege.edu/...The campus is very excited about it, which is nice.
Friday, February 10, 2006
More Life Weirdness...
Ok, guys, this falls into one of my "never in a million years would I ever..." Category of my life, which is more and more becoming the norm in my life. It's usually things like "never in a million years would I ever think I, the former hippy artist type guy, would ever have a job where he would wear a tie to an office every day", but this is a bit stranger.
Here goes..."Never in a million years would I ever go to a livestock auction."
Well, I did...Today I went to a livestock auction to help one of the school district's that I work for's Future Farmers of America program. Surprisingly, it was kind of fun, sort of like eBay on speed. Our group bought the fifth place steer for about $5500.00 and got our picture taken with a very unhappy animal. That's the part I feel bad about, these kids have to grow attached to these animals in some way, but maybe I just don't understand it because I am such a city boy. The closest I have come to the farm life is a pet chicken once as a result of an eighth grade biology experiment, and we had 'ol McGillicudy for about two years before his rooster tendencies kicked in and he had to be taken care of. My dad did the deed, and I knew it was for the best, but I still think it was a bit on the sad side.
...At least this helps the kids go to college.
Ok, guys, this falls into one of my "never in a million years would I ever..." Category of my life, which is more and more becoming the norm in my life. It's usually things like "never in a million years would I ever think I, the former hippy artist type guy, would ever have a job where he would wear a tie to an office every day", but this is a bit stranger.
Here goes..."Never in a million years would I ever go to a livestock auction."
Well, I did...Today I went to a livestock auction to help one of the school district's that I work for's Future Farmers of America program. Surprisingly, it was kind of fun, sort of like eBay on speed. Our group bought the fifth place steer for about $5500.00 and got our picture taken with a very unhappy animal. That's the part I feel bad about, these kids have to grow attached to these animals in some way, but maybe I just don't understand it because I am such a city boy. The closest I have come to the farm life is a pet chicken once as a result of an eighth grade biology experiment, and we had 'ol McGillicudy for about two years before his rooster tendencies kicked in and he had to be taken care of. My dad did the deed, and I knew it was for the best, but I still think it was a bit on the sad side.
...At least this helps the kids go to college.
Friday, January 06, 2006
Happy New Year!
Well, I'm a bit late with this but things are crazy as usual. Last year was pretty good to me, with the haircut, new car, work promotions, dodging hurricanes, no funerals, a wedding or two. Went to New York City, and actually making a valiant attempt to get out of my house and actually get a social life.
Personally, I am really thankful for the good fortune that I have had this year. Some of my friends have not been so lucky, but I try to help them in any way I can. Hopefully next year will be better for those who are less fortunate than myself, especially the people I cannot help.
Well, I'm a bit late with this but things are crazy as usual. Last year was pretty good to me, with the haircut, new car, work promotions, dodging hurricanes, no funerals, a wedding or two. Went to New York City, and actually making a valiant attempt to get out of my house and actually get a social life.
Personally, I am really thankful for the good fortune that I have had this year. Some of my friends have not been so lucky, but I try to help them in any way I can. Hopefully next year will be better for those who are less fortunate than myself, especially the people I cannot help.
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