Friday, February 23, 2007

Days like this...

What a long week. My work has once again exploded. Truthfully, it never wound down; I just slowed the shop down for a few days to keep the guys’ spirits up. My boss, the owner is in panic mode, dealing with the fallout of her own reality. Overtime is not mandatory and having the production schedule almost doubled in hours hurts. She is expecting me to put the hammer down on these guys. I just tactfully explain to them the situation and the cool ones comply. The ass clowns can dig their own hole.

Here at home we are gearing up to move. Our house is once again on the market and things look good this time. Knowing it could all fall apart at any given moment, I have planned for the worse. If you want to sell a car, give it a new paint job. Using that same philosophy, we’ve been up to all hours of the night this week painting, laying carpet, cleaning up, boxing up items, you name it!

My few hours of spare time has been spent planning the Pitching and Catching Clinic we are holding at the end of March inside a local sports facility. Over 50 kids have signed up so far and I need to have enough coaches there to handle these kids for 4 days. Volunteerism is not what it used to be. Plus I relatively quickly threw together an information related web site for the league. It’s live and in color but still needs some rough edges sanded down.

I kind of feel like I have been letting my friends and extended family down as of late, but I just can’t quite keep up. I love being there with the kids, in whatever sport it may be. It’s too bad the ‘job’ is so thankless, but that doesn't matter.

Friday, February 16, 2007

Normal life resumes for a little while.

It’s finally over. The road was a long and rough one, full of challenges and hurtles. There were some says that I didn’t think he was going to make it. Constantly feeling defeated and loosing over and over again is hard on any person, regardless who you are yet, tonight he stands proud. Proud to finish what he started, proud to finally get mad and try his hardest, proud to finally find out what strength he has, proud to go up against a 3rd generation all-star without backing down.




Finally, Boo’s first year of wrestling is over. It’s a great relief to him, and even more so to my schedule. I just might get some stuff done!

My cell really takes shitty pictures!

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Let the snow fly baby!!!!

The official forecast from the weather channel web site is as fallows:

“THE SNOW WILL CONTINUE...AND GET HEAVIER OVERNIGHT. IT WILL LAST THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THE HEAVIEST OF THE SNOW WILL BE LATE TONIGHT...AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. THERE IS STILL A CHANCE THAT THE SNOW COULD MIX WITH SLEET AT TIMES...WHICH COULD DECREASE THE SNOW TOTALS SOMEWHAT. BUT...BEFORE THE SNOW TAPERS OFF LATE WEDNESDAY...THE STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL WILL LIKELY BE IN THE 12 TO 20 INCH RANGE.”

I say let it fly baby! I hope we wake up to 100” of snow. All the more to play in! So commerce stops for a day. Even if I were waiting for a UPS RED delivery at work that could hold up a project for days, I still would call for snow. Let’s face it, sometimes you just have to say the hell with work, and life in general, and just have some fun!

Friday, February 09, 2007

Half way

TGIF never meant so much. We finally shipped out what we generically call Exxon-03; the third of six nearly identical projects at a cost of $1.5 Million each. These projects are huge to us, yet are dwarfed by the ‘plant’ they get installed into. I can’t say much more than that but would be happy to email some links to anyone who’s in the loop.

The last few weeks have been hell, to say the least. Although I have a commitment to my work, I also have a commitment to my family, especially my kids. The struggle of dealing with both can be a real pain in the A** as times. Yesterday, I left work at 3:30 for the sole purpose of taking my son to his wrestling practice. For the first time ever, I returned to work just after. Normally I will not leave him until his practice is over, but I needed to finish out the night with our second shift. This morning, I was back in by 0430, going nearly without sleep because my dog had another seizure.

It all good… We only have another 11 units to get out the door: 3 in one week and the rest by the middle of March. Oh, and yea, we’ll just add another 8” to that reservoir. Monday is calling.