May 31, 2006
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Task Requires Heroes
Okay, finally time for new site music. This last one received so much positive feedback it ran from Valentine's Day to Memorial Day! Bobby Zee and Zoe, the epitome of smooth.
And besides, I've been busy and never got around to changing it.
Which leads me to this new track you hear now:
"Task Requires Heroes". It's from the ill-fated movie "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," which actually I enjoyed because I like the premise so much. And because I saw it with my son Nathaniel, who is still impressed by any high-effects action adventure. Whatever your opinion of the movie, the soundtrack at least is awesome.We are at a tough point in the construction process. Interior trades are beginning (electrical, plumbing), while the structural trades haven't quite finished yet (block/concrete, rough framing, steel... all held up by missing steel... Emil...). Exterior trades like wrapping, roofing and stucco are fidgeting in the wings.
Two concerns: the various subcontractors may be tripping over one another and held up by one another, costing time (and money). And, funds must flow much faster, which means I need to be ready and able to pay folks quickly and completely. A million details will need attention and coordination. It will take a heroic effort to keep things moving along.
Hence the song: this task requires heroes. Happily, we have several on our team:
1. Jerry Nelson - he who earned all the money that made this possible. Thanks, Dad, for setting a little aside for me every year since I was born. Sorry I'm putting it all into a home in the 'hood instead of a house in Scottsdale or something. Thanks for understanding and supporting me, even when we have not agreed.
2. Robert Sawyer - architect and general contractor, he who designed all this and orchestrates its construction. Thanks for your patience with us as we shot down all your great artistic ideas and insisted on our own prosaic ones. You have gone the extra mile for us through unusual opposition and delays.
3. Cynthia Farr - the first neighbor to befriend us, the first to defend us, even when she thought we were crazy. Not that we're less crazy now, I guess. She's just used to us.
I appreciate so much your gracious attitude toward little things like property boundaries and fence problems... lesser persons could have made those into major issues. Thanks for your forgiveness and encouragement.More "heroes" keep coming to mind, like Kevin Piero and Danny Castro and Hector the FireSuppressor and Joe & KC (a father-&-son plumbing team), and many others. Hope you find yourselves in this blog, because you are certainly part of the saga. Thanks, more than I can say, for all your hard work and attention to detail. Don't be strangers.
Grace and strength to all our heroes!
