Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Can't sleep

I suppose it's due to the large amounts of coffee I've been drinking lately. I've had multiple deadlines this week (oh wait, it's only Monday), and I'm paying the price for not having worked weekends the last few weeks. It's just been hard with the short days and feeling like I don't have any daylight hours with my family.

I will probably end up going in to the office soon, in spite of the Dark and Stormy Night. I have a meeting at 10AM with a particularly needy client who will want to discuss three different projects. I haven't even plotted anything yet.

I got sidetracked the last couple of days by a project that dropped out of the sky and into my lap. We needed to put together a working presentation drawing for a public workshop, and unfortunately, the files were in Microstation. After spending several hours trying to plot something decent from Microstation, I finally had to give up and convert everything to AutoCAD so I could have more control over lineweight and overall printing. That took about 6 hours!

I have a grading plan that's due to another client by Wednesday, and I've hardly even started. Never mind the fact that I'm taking a road trip on Wednesday to visit yet another project I've never even seen, yet have done nearly 85% drawings!

If I can only make it to Wednesday, I might make it to Thanksgiving.

Friday, November 9, 2007

A sign seen on the way to one of our projects


I *think* Canada's the best option....