{"id":5411,"date":"2013-04-22T20:21:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T00:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/?p=5411"},"modified":"2015-02-18T12:57:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T17:57:42","slug":"growing-pains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/2013\/04\/growing-pains\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Pains!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I’m still alive – barely! It has been a CRAZY Spring around here – and I’ve hardly had time to eat and sleep – let alone blog!<\/p>\n

March 4th was the day that construction was supposed to start to finish off the new building – we actually started on March 5th. SO, February was spent trying to finish as much stuff, and sell as many projects as possible – just to clear space!<\/p>\n

Then, once the construction started, it just sucked me in… I actually thought I would be able to stay out of it, but I should know better. My father is cabinet-maker, antique wood boat restorere, etc., and when I was a kid, he was a general contractor and home-builder. So I can do all of this myself, but it’s just too much for one guy, and I have a good friendship with my contractor, so we jumped in with his help.<\/p>\n

Well, I’m a perfectionist I guess and a micro-manager, and this whiole thing turned out to be bigger and more expensive than I had planned, so the next thing you know, I have put down the hammer and dolly and picked up a claw hammer and, well, the rest is history…<\/p>\n

I’m doing all of this to try and get the business out of my house and my life (but mostly out of my wife’s hair! And so moving the shop to the new building is only part of it – I need to take everything with me that I come into the house for as well. That includes: Bathroom, desk, computer, packing area – the works. And so somewhere along the way, I decided to turn the parts attic into an office and packing area – with a bathroom. And well, as you’ll see, I may have gone a little overboard…<\/p>\n