Oh, Friday! What a week - time is flying by so scary fast, work is coming in faster than we can shovel it, it's just insane.

Yesterday was a good day - I learned so much by spending an afternoon with the client - he lectures engineers on the subject of foundation repairs so he was primed and ready to spend four hours talking non-stop about his business. And talk non-stop he did, I learned SO much, and I probably didn't absorb half of what he told us, but I came away with so much more understanding of the business and the processes. I've been dealing with the legal and practical aspects of foundation cracks for years, I could "read" a geotech report well enough to spot obvious bad things, but now I really understand what an n-value is and how it is calculated and what it tells you. That alone was worth the drive.

We took a side trip to watch his company grout a sinkhole under a large commercial site. I learned the many ways to grout a sinkhole, from the guy who invented a lot of them. I got to get up close and personal with foundation piers and hear how their load capacity works until my brain overheated and started melting - or maybe it was the sun and dehydration. It was a long hot day, much longer than I'd anticipated, I was starving and tired and my feet were killing me by the time I got home, but it was very worth it. I wished Boss could have been there so he could have soaked up the stuff I'm sure I missed. This guy is our client but I feel like I should have paid him to tutor me like that for an afternoon.

Okay, so now you know that I really am a total construction geek, and this is also why it would be hard for me to leave my very annoying employer and find another job -very few paralegal positions offer this chance to play with geotechs and other types of engineers, and go see sinkholes being fixed. Most paralegals do stuff like real estate paperwork, and send out form discovery on routine cases. They rarely get out of the office. I could not do that for the rest of my life, I need variety and the occasional road trip adventure, or I get crazy. Every time we deal with a new problem, whether it's an HVAC complaint or foundation or roofing or structural steel or drainage or what-have-you, I get to learn new cool things about how the buildings we live and work in go together and function.

On days like yesterday I really love my job and wouldn't trade it for anything. Too bad those days are so few and far between.

The problem is, I come home from my job too brain-fried and too information overloaded to have any urge to do sophisticated crafting projects. I think tomorrow morning while I am freshly caffeinated I will cut out triangles for mindless patchwork throw pillows in pretty colors. Yes, pretty colors. Me like pretty colors. Me like triangles. Only three sides. Yes. Me gonna go knit on mindless felted bag now. Yes.