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Best Friend

2008-09-15T19:06:50Z

It's in time of sorrow that you really learn who your true friends are... I've grown really close to one of our foremen... He's been an awesome mentor and has helped me through more then most people know... He's had a really rough time today dealing with our president's death and has been constantly calling me to check on me when it should be the other way around... He told me tonight that he was asked by Jeff's parents to come to the house and be with them, Jeff's wife Kim, and the baby and just have a drink with them... He wasn't going to go he was so upset... He actually turned to me and forced me into yelling at him to go... I've never had to do that before, but it brought our friendship to a new level... I realize I'm ranting, but I do better with written words then I do with spoken... And I've done more listening and comforting today then normal, so I just needed to let it out...

In Memory

2008-09-15T18:55:07Z

My boss passed away this afternoon... Jeff was 31 years old and just had a beautiful baby girl last November... He passed away while learning to parasail at his house in Chassell, Michigan... The only good part is he had just gone on a vacation with his entire family... He had one of the best weeks at work in a long time... And while I was away for training, he was able to take out a good portion of our office staff for a ride on his boat Friday night... He just celebrated his birthday a month or two before... He had just gone to X Games for Rally Car which was a goal he never thought to accomplish so soon... His business had nearly double in size in the three and a half years he was president... And he had just purchased a new home with his wife Kim and daughter Gracie... He will be greatly missed... He was a wonderful guy... I can remember many Friday nights when we would stay late enoying drinks in the kitchen and discussing business and life in general... I looked up to him and had the greatest respect for someone so young to have done so well... He offered me a job right out of school with little experience and saw potential... Jeff, I miss you already...

Happy Birthday Mom

2008-09-15T19:12:24Z

It's my beautiful mother's birthday today...

New toy

2008-09-09T20:14:33Z

Family Reunion

2008-09-04T21:44:09Z

Day at the beach

2008-08-16T19:19:23Z

Schutte's

2008-08-16T19:18:47Z

Not the greatest picture, but all I had was my iPhone... I went to see a local band tonight with some friends from work... Schutte's is one of the oldest buildings in Calumet, so it's only appropriate that it's a bar...

Cathy & Shawn's Wedding

2008-08-09T11:22:10Z

Cathy from work got married today... She was one of those that jumped on the 8-8-08 bandwagon... They were married on top of our new condo building by our in-house engineer/Mayor of Hancock... It was such a pretty wedding and the rainbow at the end was awesome...

Storm rolling in

2008-08-09T11:25:18Z

I was getting ready to head home from Cathy's wedding rehearsal and we saw this storm front rolling in over the portage...

Building a dock...

2008-08-07T19:31:08Z

I love my job when I'm not crammed in my cubicle in front of a computer with only a skylight 16 feet above me for a little view of the outside world... Lucky bastards... This is my jobsite in Dollar Bay... My guys fell putting in this dock... The property used to be used by a power company as a dock for barges to deliver coal for the power plants... It's a Brownfield site which means we can't take any of the contaminated material off the site... Instead of staring at this ugly sheet piling, we decided to cut it down to an even height, pour a curb in the corrugations, and pour this cantilevered deck on top... Eventually we'll get some cleats for boats to moor, but I've gott bigger things to worry about like the beach the owner decided to make without getting permitted... Not my fault... Nope, not taking the hit for that one...