Category Archives: Buildipedia

Reading, Writing, and…Demolition

After a busy weekend last weekend, painting the walls in the family room and stripping wallpaper in the downstairs bathroom, I took it easy on the physical labor this past week. Did some light work in that bathroom, removing bits of paper we’d missed. Put some pictures back on the walls, and restored some other …

August 22, 2010 – 10:30 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Buildipedia, home improvements, reading, Suite 101, Writing | Comments (0)

A Full Week Ahead

Yesterday was restful, sort of. I began the day with lots of aches and pains, especially in my left arm, after the home improvement work of Wednesday through Saturday. Even the after-church walk down the trail to the Crystal Bridges Museum construction site overlook was restful. Ten minutes each way in 95 degree heat, but …

August 16, 2010 – 12:44 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Buildipedia, Engineering, flood studies, Life Group lessons, Suite 101, Writing | Comments (0)

Deck Invasion

Yesterday was a better day at work. At least part of my mind has now followed me home and is no longer in southwestern Kansas. I got more done at work than I did the three days I worked last week. In off hours I was able to better concentrate on writing tasks, and did …

August 10, 2010 – 12:23 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Buildipedia, Suite 101 | Comments (2)

New Gig, First Article Posted

I arrived home last night at the usual time, anticipating a busy evening, and hurting greatly due to my rheumatoid arthritis. Clean-up of the basement from the hot water heater leak was on the evening schedule. That had consumed most of the at home hours Friday, Saturday, and (less so on) Sunday. I also figured …

July 27, 2010 – 12:29 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Buildipedia, miscellaneous, Suite 101 | Comments (2)

Time Short for Writing

Yesterday I turned in my first article to Buildipedia.com. If accepted, and I feel confident it will be, it should appear on the site in a week or so. Payment is supposed to come in not more than a month. I can sure use the payment. And I’m looking forward to the next assignment… …so …

July 12, 2010 – 2:51 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Buildipedia, Writing | Comments (0)

A Long and Busy Weekend Lies Ahead

Well, the boss just sent out an e-mail: Anyone not pushing a tight deadline may leave at 3:30 PM. I may just do that, if not quite at 3:30 then at least somewhat early. The pick-up needs an oil change, so I may go and do that. We have Monday off for Independence Day, so …

July 2, 2010 – 7:01 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Buildipedia, holidays, Suite 101, Writing | Comments (2)

Expectations: Some met, some Waiting

On Monday I wrote that this would be a week of expectations. Many things of somewhat momentous consequence in my life all seemingly coming together. It’s now Wednesday, and I thought I’d give an interim report. The stock trade I wrote about was for a down market. With the market plummeting yesterday, I made money …

June 30, 2010 – 5:43 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Buildipedia, flood studies, Health, stock market, Writing | Comments (0)

A Week of Expectations

Well, a number of projects from last week remain loose today, part of the mix of things that need to be done. One is the stock trade I wrote about on Friday morning. It’s a trade that should make money as the market goes down. The market went up on Friday and the trade lost …

June 28, 2010 – 10:12 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Buildipedia, Engineering, flood studies, Suite 101 | Comments (0)

A New Writing Gig

On June 16th I reported that I had applied for another on-line writing position, something to counter my Suite101 writing and perhaps earn some real money from my writing. I said that I was waiting for “the other shoe” to drop, meaning for something to go wrong in life, since something always seems to go …

June 25, 2010 – 7:55 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Buildipedia, freelance writing, Suite 101 | Comments (2)