Bragging rights

So, I'm going to brag on Mike a little here, because well, he deserves it! His office has been planning a workshop for the last couple of months. As a part of this workshop, Mike was going to be one-on-one with some attendees from surrounding municipalities and talking with them about their needs and basically outlining a rough 5 year plan for them during a breakout session. Needless to say, Mike was a little intimidated, because there was no way of knowing which town he would be paired with, or what kinds of questions they would ask him. So, being the proactive person that he is, he pinned his boss down this month and got a lot of questions answered for things that they don't teach you in school. I even learned something interesting in the process, because I helped quiz him a couple of days before. Did you know that when a city plans a water tower, they plan for each person to use 100 gallons of water a day? This seemed like an astronomical number to me!

Anyway, after all of his hard work in preparing for the workshop, it went super well yesterday. He was able to talk with two gentlemen for awhile, and I think he really knocked their socks off with how intelligent and knowledgeable he was. Because it went so well, he (and his boss) are hopeful that the office can start doing some work for this town. It was quite a bit of pressure to perform well yesterday, and Mike passed with flying colors!!

Let's see. Other news. Mike is in the basement as we speak mounting his new projector. I don't know all the specifications as how it is fancy, I just know it is. He ordered it before Valentine's day and has been working ever since getting the basement ready for it. This included rearranging furniture, buying a new couch, running wires in the ceiling, mounting shelves and painting the wall that we are going to project on with special white paint. I'm going to work on painting the other wall after I find curtain fabric. No, I won't be making the curtains myself. Anyone who knows me knows that I hate, no, make that loathe, sewing. One thing Mom wasn't able to pass on to me. :) So I've recruited her to make them for me.

The rest of life has been pretty normal lately. Just school and work and back home again. About the time April hits, life will start picking up and not slow down until September, so I'm enjoying this current lull for the time we have it.