General Jackassery

Okay, so remember how I thought it was going to me a nice easy pace up until the final design submittal was due? Yeah, not gonna happen. I took off early on Friday afternoon because I already had 106 hours in for the pay period, normal pay period 80 hours, last pay period normal would have been 72 because Monday was a holiday. So I put in about 34 hours of overtime. Anyway, while I was sitting on the tailgate of Mo’s truck waiting on him to get done at the vet I recieved a call from Thad saying that he’d already put us in for overtime this week and next. “Oh hell, why?” “Rodney says that we can’t have the radius curves that we have without superelevating them (banking for non-civil engineer types)” That means that we have to go back in and replace the line work for the road, do further annotation and replace the road cross sections in those areas where we have curves that need superelevation. Anyway, that means quite a bit of work for us since I’ve never done superelevation with InRoads. That means I have to learn more about the software. On top of that I have yet another software package that I need to learn. The software developers for this package are coming on Thursday and Friday to install and teach us how to use this new Range Design software. Since I have one of the three most powerful machines in the building, it’s going on my computer. That means that Thursday and Friday are going to be Range Days while the rest of the week and Sunday will be Pueblo days. Then there’s the hockey game Friday night, after the hockey game I’ll be at Johnson helping to get the mold and the cross-section ready so that we can lay up the Concrete Canoe and the layers for the cross section on Saturday. Probably be there all day an well into the night Saturday and then I’ll be coming into work on Sunday and could conceivably be here all night Sunday night. It’s “B” “E” “A” utiful man! When this is all over what do I have to look forward to? Another week in the office. But atleast the cross-section will be to the point that I won’t have to work on it every night. One day I’ll have free time again. But for now, I’m not complaining, it pays the bills and that’s something that is of incredible importance.

That’s all I have for now. Just realized I hadn’t posted in a while.

Todder, Out!