Waiting for FEA

I'm waiting for a finite element analysis of a two way slab to finish. Now, I bet that sentence made most of you go YUCK! But, I really do love my job. :-) GEEK

Ian and I had a bit of a rough weekend. Wednesday night the little guy was sick. At one point he puked all over his Mom. Now that's YUCK. Then Mom was feeling ill on Thursday and ended up leaving work early. We still chose to go forward with plans to go to Michigan for Aaron's Grandparent's 60th wedding anniversary. On the way up, Ian got sick in the car. Friday night I was sick... so rather than risk passing this onto Grandpa (who is going through chemo) we decided to pass on the party and stick close to Mary's home and take it easy. It turned out well and there was no more puking. The weekend turned out real nice and all of us went to dinner at Bombay in GR (one of my favorites) for Aaron and my anniversary. Five years - very cool.

Analysis Complete - time to get back to work.

Bored at Work

I have nothing to do... my desk is clean. I know I should cherish this time because we have several jobs that are about to start and I won't be bored for long but I have never been good with down time...

Interesting jobs that we won and I will soon be working on include: Cellular One Field (aka Comisky Park) and the Chicago Theater. That combined with a 24 story residence hall for Columbia College, the job in Dubai and the work on the Sears Tower should have me complaining about too much work and long hours in no time. But for now I am doing all those little things that are meant to be put off until days like today. Problem is, is that I have run out of little piddly things to do. So I am blogging.

This weekend we went out and bought ourselves a dining room table. We got a nice one after much ado. Aaron and I have been debating over this. Do we spend the money or not?? Then once we decided to, we had to pick out a table. That was one afternoon at Ikea... then we changed our minds and decided to just buy a couple of chairs and make do with the table we have. Second trip to Ikea. Aaron brought home a couple of chairs that weren't finished, however we didn't know that until we opened up the box. So we decided to return the chairs and go ahead and buy the table we liked. Third trip to Ikea. I bought the table and brought it home. It was solid oak and heavy as hell. We cart it upstairs after Ian goes to sleep and open the boxes. As we are panting on the couch trying to catch our breath after hauling the thing up, I am reading the fine print. There is a page of notes on how to take care of the table. It too is unfinished and needs to be oiled and no leaving anything wet on it, and no hot stuff, and no cast iron, and, and, and we think this is not the table for our family. So Aaron hauls it back to the car the next morning (Father's Day). Fourth trip to Ikea. Yesterday, for less money than the solid oak table, we came home with a nice birch table that is finished and two white chairs. We have it set up and we both like it and the chairs and we have no desire to go back to Ikea for a long time. Well... we will have to get a couple more chairs but that will have to wait until July or until I can stand the idea of returning to Ikea.

Happy Father's Day

To all the Dad's I know - Happy Father's Day.


To my own Dad, the quiet unsung hero of the Windsor house... thanks for loving me through it all.

And to the best Dad I know, Aaron... there is too much to say. I love watching you with Ian and I think Ian is one of the luckiest kids in the world to have a Dad like you. Ian idolizes you - you can see it in his face when he looks at you.
From both of us...

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

Spotty at Best

I thought that I would have more time now that I am not at school... hmmm... thought wrong. I am under a little less stress and my days are much more structured which I like, but I definitely do NOT have more free time. And I can't blog at home anymore. Ian is now of the age that if I am at the computer he wants me to show him videos of trucks. He is VERY insistant that I show him video's of trucks. Under no circumstances should I be paying bills or blogging. So forgive the lack of information from Oak Park. I do my best but, at least for now it appears that my blogging will be spotty at best. Ok, back to work now. Which is all good because work rocks! Life is good.