Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Modulo 72

It's not that I intentionally quit posting after my Minnesota breather, it's just that life just seemed to make convenient excuses. In fact, quite a few posts were started, and abandoned, in the last month or two out of loss of interest. But here we are, halfway across November. Weather turning, outdoor projects coming to a close.

The big news! The official ground breaking for the Research Building (aka CS III) took place 15 November 2010 with the trenching of the footings and, later in the day, string setup for the footings. Today (the 16th) supposedly the footing formwork will go in and the pour will take place. The weather is set to hold this week, though about 10 degrees cooler than last. Next- wall formwork, grading and compacting, and then the finished floor. Meanwhile, the lodge is getting buttoned up for winter and the pole building is now set for steel siding which is enroute.

Job wise, I'm in maintenance mode. Riding it out 'til things get heavy, or the soul-less burden becomes too much to bear. Unfortunately, it's a catch-22. Some people are able to be creative wherever they are. While I may have once had that skill, these days it takes the right setting, the proper surroundings, to get my mind into gear. It's like trying to compose a proper email with a radio blaring in one ear and someone trying to have a conversation with you in the other. Just doesn't work. The research building should help alleviate that. A place for everything and everything in its place- to soothe the mind. The proper tools and benches to tear into a project, or play around with an idea. The equipment to get me back into a place where the mind can run; productive or not. That…. and working garage doors.