
Mid-Year Book Stack Check-In
It’s June, 2025. Halfway through the year. It’s as good a time as any to do a “What Are You Reading” pit stop and post an update on what I’ve been soaking in for the […]
It’s June, 2025. Halfway through the year. It’s as good a time as any to do a “What Are You Reading” pit stop and post an update on what I’ve been soaking in for the […]
Good Morning. Wednesday, June 18th, 2025. Firefighter Success Podcast #006 with John Spera. Hit a nail on my head today. Training. Purpose and why. People set a fitness goal, health goal, something goal, January 1st […]
In this episode, I revisit (somewhat…) some concepts from Episode 20 – Preparing for the Operation. but with several new twists & angles. Question: How prepared are you for the workday. In this episode: –I dissect […]
We are all inundated with information coming at us. Threads. Emails. Teams. Notifications. Critical overload. We are also getting a lot smarter. Understanding that our time is a commodity that we don’t give away like […]
It’s 2025 National Surveyors Week! The Joliet Junior College AEC 125 construction layout crews have been making the best of the winter weather by getting their hands-on training done indoors. The crews spent the first […]
I’ll start of with a question: What did you read this year? Be honest. Reading LinkedIn posts does not count. Sorry. That’s not real reading. What books did you read in 2024? Which ones resonated […]
Thanks to the great fall weather this year, the Joliet Junior College AEC 125 construction layout crews were able to get plenty of hands-on work done around campus. We put the #Leica levels & total […]
The headline was certainly an eye-catcher… I’m not familiar with this type of system – I’m sure there will be an AAR once more details are gathered https://www.firerescue1.com/its-a-new-one-for-us-underground-fire-causes-collapse-of-parking-lot-at-va-shopping-outlet
I find it interesting, as I see more and more of my “everyday carry” items being referred to as “retro,” “vintage” or “classic.” Am I really getting that old…? I started using the Niji 350 […]
In the Midwest, corn & soybeans are our predominant crops. It’s not uncommon for people to enter cornfields and become disorientated and lost. The Will County Emergency Management Agency organized a training session today on […]
The Joliet Junior College AEC Construction Survey team has been getting some hands-on work using different measuring devices. Sounds like a pretty boring assignment, right? Really, who doesn’t know how to measure something…? Using a […]
I’m grabbing this Short from Ryder because it’s worth exploring-The concept of data hoarding. What am I doing with all of the source data I’ve collected? How many PDFs do I really need? A library […]
It’s always neat to see how people with common interests find collection points through the Internet. I received an email from Dany over at LED Lighting Supply letting me know that they curated a list […]
Fixing things yourself is becoming lost craft. It seems like, more and more, society is becoming apt to dispose and replace, as opposed to repair and maintain. I, for one, will ALWAYS try to tackle […]
Note: I originally wrote this on June 5, 2022 – It’s worth sharing now…. Having just hit “Submit” on the semester final grades, I thought it would be a good time to open the laptop […]
On May 24, 2024, I had the chance to participate in the Chicago Veterans 10th Annual Ruck March. The 17-mile ruck was chartered to raise awareness to veteran suicide: It is estimated that 17 former […]
I know that I should have been honoring the Lord’s Day by resting today, but I had a lot of chores to complete as we have some work being done around our house tomorrow. Not […]
Interesting development in the Illinois Senate as a proposed bill is making its way through the review process. Senate Bill SB2849 proposes to allow Illinois municipalities to write local legislation to “…adopt reasonable rules…” related […]
For the past several months, I’ve been working on a municipal improvement project. The project is located in a residential subdivision in a southwestern Chicago suburb and has required me to keep dozens of plates […]
One of the key attributes of a good construction engineer is the ability to keep track of what is going on. Open loops. Tasks needing attention. What problems need solving. Who is solving them. I’ve […]
If you’ve been around the surveying world for the past few decades, you can appreciate how far and how fast the industry’s adoption of technology has changed the way we work. The instruments, the data […]
You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects. Gary Keller, from “The One Thing” Mike Pertz captured this book excerpt from “The One Thing” by […]
I always enjoy reading articles that are just a bit outside of my day-to-day duties. I thought this article on rigging fit the bill. It’s good to hit the Refresh button occasionally, even if it’s […]
As I was debriefing this past week (and really, much of this past month…), it occurred to me that I ought to consider sharing my personal “Lessons Learned” with the crew, thinking & hoping that […]
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