Land 'ho!!!!!!!!!

Finally some progress.

For the past few years I have been tasked with the unholy assignment of getting the vessel I am supposed to operate rebuilt, to code, with little to no formal or former Marine Engineering experience. The next hurdle because, how do I get someone who specializes in this sort of thing to do the extensive electrical and radar/satelite systems repair?

Finally I found someone who can do the work, but what would I have him do exactly?

I needed to get a specification made so that a Marine engineer could come and make a specification so that an Electrical contractor could come and do the required work. Keeping in mind every process has to be either transparent or risk losing my awesome job by hiring someone who would split up the work to keep me under a spending limit. That wasn't happening (though it was considered briefly at many of the major obstacles I came upon).

Now I have created a Work description for the work to be done so that the work that needs to be done can be awarded to the best bidder. Tell me about it!

So today I receive word that my saviour comes to me in the form of a 1st Engineer who has experience with our fleet and would love the chance to create a specific work description for our fast Command and Control vessel. Awesome. Might even be something worth looking at once Grampa and Gramma come to visit.

Help my buddy ROD

Get him some votes y'all!!!! This is the Roughrider insider (Pedersenmedia) listed on the right in my links section, he is great and never misses a day,info is better than Riderville!!!

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A Promising Forecast

With our temperature hovering near zero for the next week or so, looks like winter will hesitate to resume in February. I can handle that!

Winter Break

IT's a girl!! Actually, she's nearly 3 months old and she is absolutely perfect.

I somehow doubt that I get any more traffic on my little corner of the web, but I figure I will keep on the way I started, low key.

Winter broke for us last week, the piles of snow disapeared and I actually caught up on the fall chores that I had slated for October that got neglected while awaiting my daughter's arrival. I raked the backyard, cleaned the gutters, took down my Christmas lights, cleaned the dog dropping all over the yard and removed a pear tree that served more as a wasp feeder than anything significantly useful.

My wife cleaned the car and went for spring-time walks. It was a lovely and relaxing weekend.

Today scattered snow flurries and rain arrive and the temperature is set to drop over the next 5 days. I don't mind though because unlike a lot of my family, I got a break.

Now if only the moisture would disapear and afford me one more day of wood cutting to stockpile my supply for the remaining winter weeks (likely 8 or so).