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Queens Boulevard
Rego Park, Queens, NY

What a day

My wife called me and stressed me like no other day. She was in a bad place with her mom and she was hammering me because I haven't completed the cleanup and sale of the coop. Not really on the completion part but on the failure on my part to give her an estimated time of completion.

I guess I wouldn't get as stressed if I wasn't as stressed at work. I just can't handle the work right now. I'm getting sick of working on one project day after day.

Price of gas

Queens Boulevard
Rego Park, Queens, NY

Interesting turn, pricing is the same as it was 13 days ago.

What a dreamer I am

I'm watching the world baseball championships as Puerto Rico is playing against Cuba and I'm thinking event though it's too late for me my son can still come up in the later years and play for either Puerto Rico or USA.

I'm of Puerto Rican descent for those of you who are wondering. My wife is of Swiss and English descent so I think as far as my son is concerned US is one, PR ois second and the reet follow.

I don't know how my son would choose to go but if it was up to me I would choose to play for Puerto Rico.

Maybe it's just a pipe dream for me for PR to play and eventually beat US.

I can only hope.

Yet another crisis

My work has been placed on hold right now. I have to concentrate on issuing proposals to the Construction Manager and chrages back to sub-contractors on a project. The main problem is no paperwork has been pushed out in the last 2 1/2 years. We now have to push out all the work in a few weeks.

Had the project managers and staff maintained proper records we wouldn't have to backtrack and look at everything.

Can you imagine the amount of paper that is generated on a public works project on a daily basis? We literally have hundreds of pounds of paper to pore over.

Good news and bad news

I had another visit to the orthopedist, he gave me one more Cortizone shot. That's the third one in a year.

He said that the bone is actually scar tissue that has built up in the tendon. If this shot doesn't get rid of the pain I'll have to have surgery.

I have a dreading feeling that I will need the surgery.

At least the problem wasn't my bones, I thought I would need the surgery because my fear was the bone was becoming cancerous. I've been informed pain is the first sign the bones are in the early stages of cancer.

Recent metting

We had a meeting today to close out open change order on an existing project.

That's usually a good thing however the Construction Manager thought it was fine to try and take advantage of us and short change us of about $100,000.

We discussed and negotiated what we can but I had to balk at closing out the open change orders at zero dollars. I'm leaving that for the owners of their company and ours to hash out.

While I have a level of freedom to close out these change orders I always defer to my superiors before finalizing the big items. For me anything over a $5,000 loss from our target number is a loss. by that criteria the $100,000 number they wanted to void was unacceptable to me.

Necessary work

I went out early today to clean the ice off my car and to move it closer to our apartment. I have a big meeting and I wanted to make sure I can drive my car because I left my car parked on a big pile of snow and ice earlier.

I got stuck for a few seconds but I got it moved.

Quiet time

I took a very lazy day today. I didn't do a darn thing.

Not in the mood.

Lucky me

I took the railroad into the office again. It's a good thing too because the roads were iced over in the blocks surrounding my apartment.

While the blocks surrounding my office were cleared in the morning last night they were all iced over and the driving was treacherous according our office staff that were driving.

It's costing us a small fortune but it's worth it if I can prevent having to pay thousands in damages to my car.

Another train ride day.

I took the railroad in today because the weather reports are saying that the ride home is going to be a mess. Between rain and then the cold weather there is going to be alot of ice on the road. Considering that the area in work in is very hilly I don't want to take the chance of sliding around and getting into an accident.

I don't like to take too many chances.

Price of gas

Queens Blvd.
Rego Park, Queens, NY