It has been hard for me to write lately.
Life has been full of changes and I have been as busy as a city dog sniffing around a barnyard.
I have been making changes in my life and, among other things, have taken to bicycling again. This last week I rode over 60 miles and more the week before. I squeeze in time to do this right after work when it is hot and unpleasant, but do it nonetheless.
These changes combined with working out of town and spending more time at home have drained the creative juices a bit.
I am not empty, just reduced to snippets and bits that are hard to inflate to something entertaining. I even have a crew that does not make my life complicated, and that is a blessing.
The job itself is a bureaucratic nightmare. I am installing a high profile job on a government facility and everything has to be exactly right the first time and no nonsense. Combine that with the fact that the engineers are reinventing everything as we go, and it means fun for me. They are testing my patience and my people skills daily.
Some of these people delight in making you go back and touch “home” every time they can, and make up new rules just for the sake of being able to do so. I have come to believe that they do so in order to make a case for having a job. The ‘cover your ass” mentality is how things are done here.
If I did everything like they wanted me to, we would still be waiting on approval to begin installing. Some of the other trades are still trying to come up with reasons why I should remove what work we have already done for their convenience. I am on schedule, they are behind. It must suck to be them.
It is about time for me to see if I can talk the sleeping wife into picking me up in Albuquerque. It is a wonderful bicycle ride into town from here with only a couple of uphill runs and plenty of downhill ones. At about 20 miles from here to there, it is a great way to begin a day.
