Building Department

 Down at the Town Hall

our Building Department Manager

has had the flu all week.

Same lady who got the "vid" earlier

this year...

So she has been out.

And I've been covering for her.

Luckily, it has been pretty quiet in the

building department this week,

which meant I had plenty of time

to work on some projects I had for myself

without a bunch of interruptions.

I'm trying to get us to go ... if not PAPERLESS,

then at least paperLESS.

Which means LOTS of scanning of the PILES

and PILES of paper sitting around.

It's looking better though!

And then this afternoon I remembered a report

that needs to be submitted to the state before

the end of the year... but early is good, right?

I spent the last couple of hours pulling numbers.

We have really nice software...

but I'll be derned if I could get it to pull

the specific report I needed.

So I'm pulling reports and them fiddling with

the data to get what I'm looking for.

Initial numbers today...

433 total building permit applications for this

past fiscal year.

187 of them are incomplete!

Which means I have a BIG job ahead of me...

researching what their status SHOULD be...

And then I turn my attention to the inspections.

At first count there are nearly 1,000.

But I'm sure those aren't accurate numbers.

Anyhow.

Research isn't really my thing.

But its what I'm doing right now.

Meanwhile, the black eyed peas are kicking it!

They look GOOD!

(unlike the pathetic bed of broccoli behind them...)

Kyle ordered another bag of bean seeds 

and they came yesterday.

We are going to replant the okra bed (I pulled them)

in beans... and maybe the brocolli.

Waste of a big ol' bed for maybe 6 heads.

I can buy it frozen at the store for $1/bag.

Just not worth it to grow it ourselves.

However,

yesterday Kyle got new tracks on his Cat.

(See his company facebook page...)

And this morning Travis (friend from church)

called him with work to keep him busy for

today AND tomorrow!

Exciting!!!!!

Which is good cuz I'll be back at the town.

I don't have any students registered for tonight's

Zoom. I'll open the webinar at 6:30 and we'll see...

Sometimes I get "walk-ins".