Monthly Archive for May, 2008

I owe Mr. Fabulous. I begged him to be on Blog Talk Radio back in March for a June show, and then had to back out. No problem for him to fill the time, but after I pleaded, I had to poop out on him.

If you like sound with your slide shows
Try Abba – Dancing Queen
Or Drama Queen – Beethoven’s 5th

Here’s his latest, and one of his greatest. If you like crude humor, and don’t have him in your RSS, you should.

Here’s a little meme deal I picked up on and thought I would give it a go. Heads or Tails provides a theme to write about on Tuesday. Today the theme is “jobs” – about my job or one I have had.
I was an architect in Santa Monica, CA early in my career. It was a pretty good gig, I had a nice home office in addition to a downtown location. Life was good until my wife died. I thought about giving it all up, but I had a great housekeeper who helped me put one foot in front of the other until I was able to live with the loss. My three boys and I pretty much drove her crazy.
I almost gave up the whole deal when a big client asked me to redesign a building and “look the other way” on some specs that I thought were important – if not required. He fired our firm and hired another, but on Christmas Day, the building had a massive failure. He called me to consult and while inside, another collapse had us trapped for a few wild hours.
I had met and married a woman and her three great girls.
It was a lively time with my three sons and her three daughters, all about the same ages, going thru girl things and boy things and learning to live together in a three bedroom home.
For a while, before our oldest boy left for college, my wife’s young cousin moved in for a brief stay.
Hardly a day goes by when I’m not reminded of those days as an architect.

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