Ya know, its hard to complain today when people down in the south east are having their lives ripped apart by the weather... I tried to keep that in perspective all day... Somehow though, today just decided to screw with me...
I've been dealing with the headache of plumbing for some time now... It doesn't seem to get much better, but tomorrow, I start actually putting pipe and fittings together. That should make that a bit better mentally... I was foiled yet again today in trying to get the fittings I need, but the hard one is on order, and should be in soon. Until then, I will be installing fittings, with valves on them, so the missing components can go in later, and I can still pressure test the system once I'm done... It still causes a headache though...
I came home from my office to work on the plumbing plans today. I told the client that called with the very rough design to call me at home as I had sent him a very rough estimate. I knew it was a high number, and since they had supposedly sent it to another shop, I thought they might not bother calling back. Apparently either they only sent it to us in reality, or the other shop was even higher, which I doubt... At any rate, we chatted a bit, and I managed to get out of him what their budget was. They have less than a quarter of what I guessed the show would cost. Yes, I can cut costs for the show... Yes, I can even cut my profit margin a bit... Yes I can suggest things that will bring the price down... In the end though, I don't think I can cut the budget in half, let alone a quarter and still put what they want on stage... I don't like doing half-assed scenery, and generally I won't try... However, a little payroll would really help at the moment, so I'll re-do the quote with some changes in mind...
I then went up to Home Desperate, as I had to pick up some screws... Naturally, they didn't have them, so since the project isn't that important I decided to come home again... Walking toward my truck, I noticed the tail pipe looked off a bit... Sadly, it sheared off the muffler such that I can't just stick a new pipe on there, I will have to replace the muffler and tailpipe... Glad I have so much extra cash hanging around right now...
So all I really wanted to do was sit outside, with a beer, and try to forget the day... So as I sat there, talking to my girlfriend who also had a shitty day, the strapping on my chair broke, and I almost broke my skull falling through it...
It's too early to crawl in bed and sleep the day off, but I'm somewhat worried that the day has more time left to get me some more... Somebody get me another beer...