Recently I've been on a forced hiatus from the forum. For starters, I got the very short end of the stick when I took vacation to TN a few weeks ago. For those of you who don't know, I do structural engineering inspections on projects that we designed and are the Engineer of Record on and I am a one-man show. For a full week prior to leaving on vacation I schooled the management on exactly what needed to be done to ensure that the inspections were handled while I was gone. When I opened the schedule my first day back at work there had not been a single inspection done while I was gone. There was a full week and a half backlog of work staring me in the face. I was absolutely livid and almost quit right there on the spot. Never having quit anything in my life, I figured I'd just gut it out and try to get things back on track. Of course as I was catching those inspections up, more kept coming in every day and it looked like I'd never get caught up. Add to this melee, I started into a couple more welding projects in the garage that I've been pushing trying to get done and I simply have not had time to do more than just pop in and take a quick glance at what's going on in here. I know I've missed replying to a ton of great posts but there simply has not been time to do so. There is a large contingent here who all support each other and share positive, fun, entertaining commentary so I feel like I've dropped the ball on a lot of you. As of yesterday I got the last of the two welding projects done and it appears as though the inspection schedule is back on track. Been a rough three weeks but I'm seeing light at the end of the tunnel. I just hope that light isn't from an oncoming train Although no picnic for me recently, what I've dealt with is nothing compared to what our friends in Florida and points north have dealt with and my heart goes out to them. A few quick glances at threads indicate that things are starting to come together for them but they are still a long way from back to normal. Hopefully I'll have some time to spend here catching back up with friends but there's no way I'll catch everything and for that I do apologize.
Coming home...I hope,
Robert
Coming home...I hope,
Robert