Too Busy

Life has been busy! School work, midterms, work. Just an entire mess of stuff to do. Life has been looking up though, I just downloaded a cost estimating program that has made my life complete. haha. It seriously was the highlight of my day. You can simply scan any house or building plans onto my computer and I can proceed to calculate all costs, including generic furniture and carpet samples. It is amazing! You can even calculate the estimated costs of labor and equipment for each unit of measurement. Pretty sweet!

This has taken up many hours of my week. I will do my homework assignments, but then find myself sitting there for an extra hour trying to teach myself how to calculate the rest of the project. We just had to do the insulation, roofing, doors, windows, and the counter-top schedules on this last assignment, but I continued to hack out the full electrical plan and the lighting schedule. I just find this intriguing. haha. Kinda fun learning what the cost of your curiousity is also. haha.

But the other things keeping my life busy... Work has been crazy with the weather like it has been. We made up 100 man hours in the last week, by working 1 1/2 crews to the bone. We picked up a few extra guys at work, and have just been cranking out the profitability. I have been ranked as the lone wolf, and always land the finicky jobs that only requires one person who knows what he is doing. I like it personally. I like to do stuff my own way and not worry about trying to convince another person how to think like me. haha. But overall, we are trying to get the big stuff finished before the weather turns sour.

Then we have the family. I have not seen them in almost a month, but I got to see them last weekend. Tessa had her All-State Honor Chior thing, and Mary Jo had her 4-H alumni banquet. So, we made the trek down to Sioux Falls and got to see everyone.