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"Don can be difficult" V Jane

Let’s see –Jane’s Proposition -"Don can be difficult”

I refute this.

Bombastic, opinionated, mouthy, inconsiderate, impatient, insensitive, lacking in intimacy (hey I’m a guy eh),

- maybe, but difficult – that’s a bit of a stretch isn’t it?

Well, OK I may have been a bit obtuse on occasion

Actually, quite a bit when I think about it – OK so more than I care to admit

Alright so I have required patient handling at times,

Yeah, I suppose

OK so most of the nearly 40 years we have known each other – but she can be a pain as well

The mood swings, the artist’s confidence issues, the tidying up thing –(I can never find my stuff), the unending to do lists, the wacky projects, you having most of the home work space etc.

But the killers are the logical arguments, and the infallible memory of every sin, mistake or faux pas ever committed,

And why must they be dragged out and remembered every so often – I know how Paul feels about the sponsorship thing

Anyway – I have some good points – I think – I’m not wracked by doubt, I can be decisive (and stomp all over peoples feelings without even realizing it) except about art stuff and ideas, and blogs, deciding on cameras

But difficult? Wouldn’t complicated sound better?

Difficult is so, so stubborn, so intransigent, so not listening, so hardnosed –

I don’t really think of my self as hardnosed – but I have to convey this persona at work a lot to stare down the contractors and get the “patching made good” – really really good, as good as the original or better and at no cost even if their families go hungry and they die – really hardnosed and tough, and not artsy fartsy – no nonsense, all business,

But, at the same time persuasive, and charming, and genuinely likeable – that’s it - a tough, but fair, firm, likeable persuasive good guy,

But someone you don’t screw around with – yeah – maybe a wee bit difficult!

Sometimes – but rarely.

The Boiler House Mezzanine

hollow sounds emanate from the floor
heavy chain dragged across the slab
rotten concrete.
years of salt storage, humidity
moisture clings to bagged crystals
like sweat on an athlete's chin.
the liquified solution
gradually slips out
slides to the cool hard surface.
looking for hairline cracks
working its way into the slab
eating away at the calcified remains of sea creatures
from eons past and the modern day steel bars.
again and again it drips
until the surface spalls and flakes.
now too far gone
it must be scarified
hammered and chipped.
prepped for Sika topping
patched - made good to the eye
but not safe and sound.

The accuracy of survey information is not the consultant's responsibility

Make repair work undetectable in finished work

Confirm exact location of plumbing fixtures prior to rough-in. Patch and make good.

The inspector shall monitor the installation to determine that all plies of connected material have been drawn together

Provide shop inspection reports on the measured geometric accuracy of all members and assemblies