Just winding down from a solid three days of working! I keep switching work partners, sometimes working by myself, but I like having someone around to shovel snow so I don’t have to! Being with someone else helps me stay awake while I’m plowing through snowstorms, though. At any rate, I had about 9 hours of sleep for the week going into this morning when Joel and I were working and opening up driveways. In either Spanish or English, I suggested that we take a break for a minute and set my alarm on my cell phone for 10 minutes. Nearly 60 minutes later, I look up at the clock and realize how much slacking I had committed!
This reminds me – my friends drove through the night to a Grateful Dead concert and parked in a farmer’s field with their car running like I had this morning (it was 10 degrees!) but it was a really hot summer and they had the A/C cranking at full blast. Both of them nodded off in the front seat and one in the back. From my understanding, one of them woke up and freaked out, thinking that he had fallen asleep at the wheel and was about to crash! His scream woke up the other two who also began screaming and yelling until they realized the wind was the A/C and that the car was merely idling with the parking brake on. 
At any rate, I should get going – sleep is not scheduled yet for tonight. Unfortunately, my dad had a surgical procedure scheduled for the day before the storm and was recuperating the two days following. Chris tried to help, but it’s fallen on me to manage a lot of things, mostly handling my regular plow customers plus all of his plus helping my friend who had a salt truck breakdown. I’ve spent more time praying! My attitude is improving, too. Normally, I get irritated by the interruptions when I’m trying to plow snow – handling the wheel, the plow remote, the salter control box, the gear selector, the pedals, the window, and directing my co-worker. Then people call up expecting to chat or it’s my dad who wants to fill me in on some mundane details of a job scheduled next month… This time, though, I’m doing a lot better and handling over 150 calls a day on my celly which is a lot more than I’m used to!
Many sincere apologies for not keeping up with my site. I bet if you researched it, cataloging all the inactive blogs of the world, that would be the most common introductory statement! But really, I am keeping busy with 70+ hour workdays and 100+ hour workweeks. Plus being the genius that I am, I signed up for all the projects and presentations this semester in my 4 classes to be due this month so I would have more time for work when the season kicks in. At any rate, as far as I can tell, I owe the world
- a summary/wrap-up on New Zealand with pictures and video,
- the whole story on how my skis were stolen in Oregon,
- a glimpse at what I got for Valentines Day, and
- my most overt attempt for comments ever.
Not a surprise to anyone, but Esther did get accepted to the University of Durham, so I will be in the UK this year in the fall at least once or twice or ten times. Feel free to congratulate her – I think she’s excited about it. Okay back to work!
On May 21st, I will graduate with a Masters in Business Administration. I certainly don’t feel a whole lot different, but looking back, I’m quite different than the 17 year-old high school graduate registering for classes in the summer of 2000!
