Thursday, September 17, 2009
Done
Have you ever been "done"? I am "done" with a huge project at work, in fact, I just finished up the final edit of a new catalogue that I had been tasked to do since I hired on with my company. I thought I was "done" about 3 times ago but there were always edits, corrections, additions, subtraction, etc. and my "done" wasn't "done" but now I think I am "done" for now or at least until out next run when we might add some pictures or further descriptions. It looks good. I like the feeling of accomplishment of being "done". I remember when I was a kid, I worked on my uncle's farm moving sprinkler pipe. For those of you that don't know, sprinkler pipe is about 40 feet long sections of aluminum pipe with a rainbird sprinkler head in the middle and I would move each one about 50 feet twice a day. Each line had was about a 1/4 mile long, approximately 32 pipe. The 3" diameter pipe were all right to move but the 4" in a low area would fill with water and get heavy, about 250 pounds minimum when all was said and done. (parenthetical aside: I remember one 4" pipe was REALLY heavy down in a low area of a field I was moving. I remember picking up the pipe and it actually bent in half it was so heavy. When I showed my uncle he couldn't believe it. He had never seen anything like it. He thought I had done something to the pipe to bend/break it like that because you supposedly couldn't do that to those pipe but I did. He thought I was pretty strong after that. Aside done) The reason for this stroll down memory lane was the sense of "doneness" I would feel after the sprinklers came on. You could either tell if you were "done" with that line or not by whether all the sprinklers came on or not. If not, there was a blow-out and you had to walk the line (pain in the butt) to find and fix the blow out. In my 4 years of moving pipe for my uncle, I was always "done", I never had a blow out. So, I am hoping that my "doneness" with this particular project doesn't result in a "blow out" (I don't think it will) and I will be able to see the sprinklers all start up (the sales guys will REALLY like the catalogue and, more importantly, my owner will like the fininsed project. So, am I "done" with this? I don't know but I know that I am close to "done" and that is a great feeling right now. I like being "done"
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You are AMAAAAZING!!!
ReplyDeleteWay to go!