The Musing Mill

Today is my birthday. Actually, there are a string of birthdays in April. The 26th is Martin Taurer, 27th is Keith Cornella (guitar player), 28th (me), and then 29th for both Steven Rozmanith and Rachel McCartney. Happy B-day all!

I woke up and immediately went to see a doctor. I was talking to Sue in the kitchen and she took one look at me and said “somethings wrong with you - go see a doctor right now.”

Basically, all the muscles on the right side of my face stopped working this morning. Scary. Turns out it’s not a brain tumor, but the side affects of a recent cold/virus called Bells Palsy. It should clear up in several weeks. Until then - medication.

Joe took the concrete countertop out of the form today and it busted into 6 pieces. Oh well, looks like we’ll have to try something else and punt on the concrete for now.

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Sue was out of the house early (7:45 am) to meet the carpet estimator over at Middlesex. Karen (Sue’s mom) and Pete are here for the weekend, and will be helping with the kids while we pack up the Stanley house.

I went to the Middlesex house today to prep the formwork for the concrete countertop pouring, hopefully this weekend. Had to caulk them around the edges. Somehow, I need to get the other one caulked too. Hmmm…tomorrow? Then the rebar. With all this, they better look good.

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Many conversations about how product planning on Revit might be structured with the org changes at Autodesk. More to follow tomorrow.

On the house construction, the tile guys have all the bathroom walls done and are doing the floors tomorrow. Whew! That means the plumber can come back in and finish his fixtures in my parents place. After the the hardwood guy can refinish the floors and Joe will install the countertop, also on my parents unit.

I’ll probably take a shot at pouring our concrete countertops this weekend. Tomorrow, I have to go to the Middlesex house straight from work and finish the formwork and reinforcement for them. Also, the painter shows up to paint the trim and doors in our unit. After that, Gary can install the locksets in the doors. Finally, the electrician will be back tomorrow to finish their fixtures on our unit. Oh - and the siding guys are blasting thru their stuff too. Well, it’s just money.

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I took today off work to catch up since last week was a total bust with Leonid’s announcing his departure. We’re prepping and packing up the Stanley house and trying to get the Middlesex house wrapped up.

Yeah! the tile guys showed up today. They are critical path to getting my parents moved in, since the fixtures can’t be set until the tile is in.

The siding guys also showed up today and I asked them how they were handling a few things. The answers were really good, so I think the exterior will look really sharp.

I also met with a couple realtors who are doing market analyses based on the Stanley house. We’ll review those this week and pick someone to list the house.

Getting close to pulling the trigger on the big move.

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Today was the day Leonid told me he was leaving. Well actually it was yesterday afternoon, but I couldn’t post it since Rick and I had been busy splitting a bottle of scotch last night.

Who knows what the real story is, but no matter how you look at it, the design meetings just aren’t going to be the same. Besides, I have 5 years invested in a working relationship that is now soon going to be history.

There’s going to be a lot of organizational churn to deal with - motivation is not my greatest quality right now.

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After stumbling across other peoples blogs and reading posts without knowing anything about them, here’s a bit about the author.

MartyrOz is AKA Marty Rozmanith. I/He is happily married and a father of 2 sweet kids living in the Boston area. Marty is one of the creators of the Autodesk Revit building modeling software. The most notable project designed using Revit is the rebuilding of the new World Trade Center Freedom Tower in New York City.

I/He has been employed in software technology in the building industry since 1996. Before that he was a practicing architect and structural engineer in California.

Marty’s teams are the Red Sox, Patriots, Philly Eagles, Penn State Nittany Lions, and whoever plays the Yankees.

Marty publishes the Musing Mill because he can’t help it (see this).

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So I’m reimplementing the blog to be more robust.

As this thing takes shape, I don’t want to forget why I put it here, so here’s some of the reasoning behind the blog. Here’s one reason’

I have several creative friends who share a common problem with me. That is - we keep coming up with ideas that then evaporate since they don’t get captured anywhere and we’re all too busy to execute each one as we think of them.

So that is what the Musing Mill is’a place to put them until later. And maybe to show how they work out when we do something about them. So the way this will work is that a few people will get access to post and experiment, and the results will end up here.

The point is; creative people NEED to create. It’s a compulsion. Without a place to intercept these efforts, good things vanish into the ether. So this place is like a distillery so that the stuff can condense and we can sort thru it, picking and choosing the interesting stuff from the heap of the rest.

There’s more to the infrastructure than just this blog. This is just the public face of a bunch of technology junk. Hopefully it will be apparent as stuff gets posted - but even better if it’s transparent - nobody needs to see the ghost behind the machine.

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The blog went live yesterday, 10 years to the day after Kurt Cobain?s death. For GenXers, the date is a little worn through. Yes, he was a good songwriter, and I love the book. Maybe I?ll post some images of it.

I first started looking at a weblog in 2001 for about 2 weeks, and immediately realized I wanted control over the server backend. I got way to busy after that to think about it. Now it is done - correctly too. This thing should live for a good long while.

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Welcome to WordPress. This is the first post - made automatically by the installer. Can’t fake this one [smile]. It’s an artifact of my successful PHP, SQL and Apache hacking. Gonna leave it as a memento?

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