9-22-08 Week in Reveiw

On to this week.

This week was filled with lots of meetings as well. I got to spend a day in Waterloo and a day over at Harvester in East Moline. The most exciting news of the week is that on Monday the concrete crew showed up (3 weeks late). I was rather impressed with the 'lean' principle they applied...standardized work, one piece flow, asset utilization, just in time production.

Monday - tore everything out...probably took less than an hour, a second crew came an framed things up

Tuesday - another crew came and poured the front walk and drive. They didn't have a cement truck but rather a truck that held the various components of concrete and mixed them on demand and only as much as was needed

Wednesday - Someone came and poured the spa pad

Thursday - The aggregate on the spa pad was 'exposed', all the framing was torn out, and then a last crew came and back filled dirt and seeded.

So I guess I'm left with a bit of a mess and lots of landscaping to put back in place. I made good progress Thursday and Saturday.

Thursday I headed down to the River Music Experience for a class on microphones. I learned a bit...other's learned more (like that metal thing that holds a microphone is called a 'microphone stand'). One interesting piece of trivia...do you know how the microphone got it's name? I'll tell you later.

Finally, on Saturday morning we got a visit from the cops. He let me know that the neighborhood had been vandalized including the tailgate of my truck. The good news is that I was able to clean things up with no permanent damage. The bad news is that there are a few kids in our neighborhood who should be living with the fear of God in their lives! There are about 12 household who 'wouldn't mind meeting' them.