My first job site visit to a project remotely located ... When my wife asked me how it was staying by myself, out in the middle of nowhere, with no one around, I told her "the murderers could take their time".
New Year, New Adventures ... that might just kill me.

I am exactly where I want to be … at least, that’s what I tell my daughter. One of the neat side effects of being a parent is that I have a daughter that asks me a lot of questions and she will not accept “because I said so” or “that’s just the way it is” as a response. My daughter is going through some academic adventures on her own right now and whenever she feels uncertain about what’s coming next, I typically tell her that this is the most exciting thing about being alive – not knowing what’s about to happen. As those words come out of my mouth, I start to thinking about the cabin project I am working on, which is getting built in a climate that is completely foreign and unique to me. When I use this as an example to my daughter, she asks me “Aren’t you scared that you’ll make a mistake"” The answer back is easy – “Of course I’m worried that I’ll make a mistake, but that’s true about everything I do. Doing a project like this is tremendously exciting and its an adventure I wouldn’t want to miss.”Until I thought I was going to die when we were coming in to land. Seriously...