central market update

overview
Originally uploaded by Archigeek

The construction's coming along swiftly. I look at a shot of the site like this and wonder how the hell the construction teams keep everything in order.

In the upper right corner is the residential tower: foundation complete, concrete testing in progress (I hope the poured the right stuff!!!), and the bottom two parking levels pretty much finished.

We're racing to get the remaining construction documents for the tower out by Friday. I'm currently working on the penthouse levels, which are about the 85th story. I think it'll be a while before they get that high up!

pattern language

A Pattern Language, Towns Buildings Construction is now available online. Woo woo!

finally, two screens

finally, two screens
Originally uploaded by Archigeek

I've been itching to get two screens at work for at least the past year. It finally happened today, as well as pumping me up to 4 gigs of ram.

I guess what might be more interesting is that this is my view at work, more or less. Note the assorted items of necessity: moleskine notebook (with grids), fancy new fountain pen, aluminum scale, phone, calculator, wallet, headphones. Heh.

Time for Monday workday to end. Ciao.

happy new year n all

Happy 2008, everybody! It was Monday night that I was reflecting on the absurdity of the world using the change of a number as an excuse to get blitzed. Then I drank some more.

Today has been the mother Monday of all Wednesdays. It took about 8 hours and too many cups of coffee to wake up, 2 hours to figure out where I left work before the holidays, and a solid 2 minutes at the gym to remember how long it's been since I touched a weight.

I'm thankful this is a three-day week.

I'd also like to thank these folks for helping me set up this music search thingy. Enjoy!