Here Comes the Bride

See, I'm making a valiant effort at keeping this ball rolling. When I have time. Maybe.

Picking up where I left off:
By the by, my sister got engaged last July during one of the fishing trips. This is how I found out:
cast...drift...cast...drift... (dad) "Hey! Robin just got engaged." cast...drift...cast...drift... "Oh." cast...drift...cast... "Caught anything yet?" cast...drift...cast...

Back to the New Year, January was the time when the wedding planning was starting to increase. Somehow, coincidentally, I got really into crossfit and started taking housesitting jobs at that time. I was hardly ever home. Wedding planning is actually bearable when you're never home. My simple bachelor life of work, activity, and sleep was at a prime during this period.

February: work, activity, sleep.
I was asked to do a part of a big company project, and was given no deadline. 3 weeks into February, I was told "first week of March". Wait. 2 Weeks??? So I got to fly down to Homer twice, stay the night once, drive all over the place, and create routes for the pipe project. Then I return to the office and fight with drafters to get stuff done. I heroically battle comments such as, "that can't be done", "no way", "shouldn't they have asked us earlier?" Well, yes, they should have, but I was allocated enough manpower and it looks like I actually got it done. Amazing.
It's sort of funny when a department director says "I'm tired of doing the project manager's job."

March: work is exploding. It is not funny when you sit in a meeting with 15 high ranking company people, you are the lowest on the totem pole, and as these titans of companies argue, your task list gets longer. And longer. And longer. I've got so many hydraulic modeling jobs now it is not fun...
However, then you have your year end employee review and your boss says that they really appreciate the work and effort I do and the energy and enthusiasm you bring, and everything is suddenly all better. "Do you have any questions?...Should we change anything?..." No sir, I'm happy as a clam.
Hopefully I'm not the horse that always says "I will work harder" and then gets sent to the glue factory.

As of yesterday, there is no more wedding planning. HOORAY! But my life won't return to normal until... a few weeks from now because I get to travel for work soon. (I love my job)

Out of words for the day.
During the wedding ceremony, my only task was to be the level head. (It would've gone better if I was actually given a plan) so when a wedding supposed to start at 2 hasn't started by 2:10, there's a problem. Solution, I grab the microphone, "SIT DOWN!" The response, "who gave the engineer the microphone???" Hey, I'm getting stuff done. So what if I lack tact.