][<man, The only thing wrong with you, and frankly, most of this group is that you are interesting. If you see a rock, you want to look under it, over it, into it, and in your case, levitation is not out of the question. And, no matter what you read, you want to find out for yourself. Rebel to renaissance radical. As my son observed yesterday, it is not the physical metamorphosis of caterpillar to butterfly that is so amazing, but rather, trying to imagine what that brain must be thinking, one minute crawling around munching a bush in Leland's garden, looking up at that great grand world, in fear of the shadow of a shoe, the next fluttering around on your way to Mexico. Best, Leland PS Can you get rid of the yellow paper. And who was it that had the nice thin blue graph paper with about one inch squares. That infiltrated from BP and I was very fond of it, but it disappeared during my last upgrade. From: plz practice conservation of histo presto eye blinks [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gabriel Orgrease Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 6:38 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [BP] Ken's progress for today Leland Torrence wrote: You cranked out 22 words a minute and read 16,000 words yesterday. in the morning?! You da man. The word is quicker than the trowel. Leland, I was on a roll... but I also have this lingering suspicion that either I was goofing off or there is something seriously wrong with me. What happened is that it clicked. I also had several business phone calls during that stretch. I want to thank everyone on BP for putting up with me. I have learned a great deal over the last 10 years about how to write, what to write, and what not to write from being here. This morning started out with my watching vid clips of the Gotti family members... it was warm up. I want to write out the story of how we almost went to work for John Gotti at Shea Stadium. It has to do with estimating. Not only must one learn to estimate the job, one needs to learn to estimate the situation that they find themselves in the middle of. ][<en "I once had a project where the owner hired the largest law firm they could get their hands on to write a custom construction contact that the large law firm passed down to the most junior idiot they had on staff. Now, in construction there is a long history of contracts and for the most part an AIA (American Institute of Architects) contract is more than sufficient, everyone knows what it means and the interpretations have been grilled over umpteen million times in the court of law. So the need for a 'custom' made construction contract is a bit daft, particularly if the lawyer drawing it up has no experience in either construction or in law. Though I could very well have interfaced directly with this young whippersnapper I ended up paying our lawyer approximately $10,000 to be in the middle because quite frankly I was worried that I might actually come off and say what I thought and skunk the chance of our getting the project. I would tell my lawyer - an extremely competent and experienced specialist in construction contract law -- what I wanted in the contract, and they would do the polite talk with the younger compatriot in their profession (I like NLP). In the end we got a contract that was very much in our favor. we don't do business out of charity. It was a large enough project, $600,000 range, to absorb the cost and I put legal fees into the cost so in the end the customer paid their lawyer, and my lawyer, both, for what could have been done just as well for $5.00. It was a cost they paid that kept me from swearing." -- Orgrease-Crankbait <http://orgrease-crankbait.blogspot.com/> Video, audio, writings, words, spoken word, dialogs, graphic collage and the art of fiction in language and literature. -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>