Moving forward

I've decided to just move forward on all fronts, for as long as I can and try to ignore the economy as much as possible. Here at work, I'm busting butt trying to get financial statements, budgets and everything else working correctly and ready to go. At home, I've decided to try and do a little work just to keep the house looking good. On my half-assed job search, I ramped it up a little. I like what I do and who I'm doing it with, but the new owner(s) make me nervous and I like keeping an eye on the market. Maybe something will come of it (and I'll have to change the name of this blog) and maybe nothing will happen.

A few other interesting things going on at work. Heading off to Tulsa next week for visits with our new masters. Not sure exactly what I'm going to do out there, but at least I'll get to meet all the other accounting folks and rack up some frequent flier miles.

We landed several jobs last week for the first time in way too long. Now is not the time to be in construction, and boy does it show. We just picked up about $100MM in backlog and we needed it big time.

Been asked to write a series of articles for an online site. Not sure about this, but I'm going to give it a whirl. If nothing else, it gets my name out there as an expert, assuming I don't fall flat on my face.


My Tigers played Ga last weekend and fell flat on their face. You can read about it at other sites with much more detail than here (I like Bayoubengalblog.com), but you can safely assume they did not play well. I can't decide whether it's coaching and scheme, or if the players are just stupid. Either way, I'm looking for a much higher level of play this week against a Tulane team that really isn't playing that well. I'd like to see a score in the 50 - 3 range, unless Miles plays a bunch of younger players. In that case, I'd be okay winning by only 30 or so.

Didn't do crap on the jeep this weekend....shocking, I know. Planning some work on Thurs night maybe, and definitely some this weekend. I'd like to wrap up a the body mounts and start reattaching hoses and steering linkages and fun stuff like that. If that goes well, maybe get under the hood and start rerunning wiring a little bit so all that's left is the body and dashboard wiring. That's the scary part of the wiring anyway, and coincidentally also the part that requires the most soldering.

Later