hmmmm...work problems?

Well, yesterday the president comes to get me and we meet in my office. He has been on job tours with one of the VPs, and while they were discussing warranty and window repairs, the thought occurred to them that perhaps someone was stealing? I'm still a little fuzzy on how they got there, but that's a pretty serious accusation and I don't know where this is going to end up. Fortunately, it has nothing to do with me and my work, but this is still just hard to believe. IF it's true, this is going to rock this company to the core of it's being. I hope it's not and our guys are just doing stupid shit and not thinking about why they're spending money on projects that have been finished for over 2 years.

On a vaguely work related note, is the housing and construction market going into the proverbial crapper? I don't have reams of contacts across the country, but I know if you read the WSJ and various other magazines, it's worrisome. I know that in my neighborhood, there are 2 houses going up for auction soon. Both are 3,000 sf single family homes and the starting bid on each is $50,000. I'm seriously considering putting up a bid, if I can get someone to loan me the money. I'd probably only go in at the low end, 50 - 75K and then chicken out if it went above that. But, at that level, I could rent the house to someone for a year or 2 and then sell when the market recovered somewhat and theoretically make a pretty good profit. I promise you can't rebuild 3,000sf for $50K.

Back to a personal level.....no word from my guy with the jeep. I've called and left a couple of messages. If he keeps screwing with me, I'm just going to blow this off. It's too bad because for all the problems with the Jeep, I might have been interested if we could have reached an agreeable price. $2,000 was a little much in my opinion, but I tend to be pretty cheap when it come to these things.

Looking forward to playing a little golf this weekend. Not that I'm a good golfer, but I do enjoy it and it's a tournament so it's free (for me!)

Happy Mothers Day!! Tried to send Mom some flowers and we'll see if they get there in time. Hope they do, it would surprise the crap out of her.