Bid Day

So earlier this week we had a really big bid day.  We had two bids due and I was helping with the one for the high school.  It was lots of work and I worked 'til 9:30pm the night before and then went back to work at 6:00am so that I could get everything done that I needed to do.  Also all morning I was doing whatever I need to help with to finish everything up.  In the office everyone was running around like we were an anthill that had be kicked.  It was probably the first time that I had really been involved in the bidding process on a big job.  It was an eye opener to a different type of engineering that I knew existed but had never really seen.  It was a lot of work but kind of exciting.

New Direction

So I have decided to write about my daily experiences with school and work.  I am in my last semester of college and only have three classes that I am taking.  I am taking Manufacturing and Nutrition at SUU three days a week and then I am taking Programming at Dixie State on Thursday night.  I am working really hard to pass all of these classes.

I am also working full-time for Interstate Rock in there engineering department.  This week we are really busy with bids.  We have four jobs bid on Tuesday so it is really crazy at work.  I am helping with take-offs and anything else that needs to be done right now.  Normally I am doing AsBuild drawing and keeping track of extra items on our SR-9 roadway job.

All of this is really keeping me busy and I do not have lots of free time.  But I hopefully will be able to write and share my life challenges and victories.

Fablehaven completed... Finally

I finally finished the last two books in the Fablehaven series.  It took me so long to finally finish them because I didn't have access to them and I couldn't buy them on strict orders from my wife.  But I have finally finished them and here is my thought about these two books.

First, for Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary I must talk about how surprised I was with how the book panned out.  I was not expecting the twists and turns that Mull put into this part of his series.  For those of you who know me know that I am obsessed with dragons and so with the picture of a hydra on the front cover I was skeptical about how he was going to describe his dragons.  I was very pleased with his new take on dragons and not just sticking with the main view of dragons.  I like that his dragons at Wyrmroost coming in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and abilities.  I enjoyed the plot and the storyline of this book.  I give the plot 4 out of 5.  The book is very easy to read and I found that I flew right through it with no trouble with the vocabulary or the writing style so I give it a 3.5 out of 5 on readability because there were a few spots that just seemed like the way it was written distracted from the overall story. For enjoyment it gets a 3.5 out of 5 because it was really fun to read but it just didn't suck me into it the story. So overall this book gets a 3.67 out of 5.

Now for the final installment of the Fablehaven series I read Keys to the Demon Prison which continued with the great plot line started in book 4 and just continued to excite and thrill me.  Throughout the book I kept waiting for two things to happen. 1) when Seth would use his tower and leviathan figures and 2) when Kendra would restore the astrids.  Seth never used his figurines which was a let down for me but the restored astrids more than made up for it.  I was trying to figure out who was on the front cover and what was the importance and I didn't realize it until I finished the book and looked at the cover again which made things all fall into place for me.  I didn't really like the way that this book ended.  With this being the final book I wanted a good conclusion to the story.  I felt like things didn't get wrapped up and Mull left it open for another book. So for plot I will give it a 3.5 out of 5.  For readability it gets 4 out of 5 since it was a great read and I had no problems reading and understanding what was going on.  For entertainment it gets 4.5 out of 5.  I was sucked into the story as I read this book.  I just couldn't stop reading it.  I tried to find time all the time and I stayed up late, it truly had me intrigued. So overall this book gets 4 out of 5.