One More Reason to Celebrate

Posted on my company's intranet yesterday:
Please extend congratulations to JT in the Portland Office for passing the LEED exam. This places JT as the third LEED™ AP in the Northwest office! In addition, JT was just notified that his Washington State License is forthcoming. These accomplishments are very important to the success of the Portland office, as we solidify the World's Best Company's foothold in the Northwest.

Names changed to protect the innocent...;^)

Here's a video to celebrate:
MIA Paper Planes

Site Visits

As part of my job I have to go to job sites to perform construction services like making sure the curb is at the right height or the bioswale is constructed to our design. This is a screenshot from one of the remote cellular camera the school district has installed at the school construction sites we designed and are performing construction site services at. I pulled up the photo during time during the weekly meeting, my little grey car can be seen under the weather stats (I expanded - so cool!). It is really cool, you can have the website do a time lapse video, I need to perfect it because right now it will only do one day of photos, I want to see a few weeks.


This is a photo of a detention pond for the stormwater runoff, the water will hang out here, to settle out any sediment before it is released off-site, they also put little growies in the pond to make it like a real pond. The green stuff is hydroseed: a mixture of grass seeds, fertilizer, cellulose fiber (newspaper), and mulch - all of this is specified by the specifications and construction drawings including the amount of coverage and weed purity.




This is great! An up close picture of a brown praying mantis that I spotted while walking around. It is sitting on a traffic delineator. The close-up look at hydroseed is also neat.

Creamy or Chunky Shaving Cream

I'm out of shaving cream and so I thought I would try using peanut butter to shave with, I heard it could be done - I probably read it in Men's Health or something. I only have Adam's Chunky Peanut Butter, as you can probably guess it wasn't good, the chunks gummed up the blades of the Mach3. I had to run the blade under water longer and use my finger to clear the blades and the little rubber ridges.

I got the job done, but I'm gonna have to get some of the real stuff, makes me think about Burma Shave. An English teacher in middle school would have a book of old Burma Shave road sign advertisements and read them to the class. I can't remember any of them except that they were catchy and they ended with "Try Burma Shave."

I don't think I smell like peanut butter, but how hot would it be if I did? ;^)