Well that was just downright horrible

Just downright no good very bad horrible couple of days here in Cleveland. I don't mean to knock on the group that put it on, or the idea of trying to learn something in a very short period of time, but this just was not fun.

Here's what I went through, just to give you a little background.

There is a program that focuses on building "green" buildings. Its called LEED. You may have heard about different buildings around the area becoming LEED certified. There is a Cub Foods in Phalen that is LEED Gold Certified. This certification has to deal with a whole bunch of things like where the building is being built, what materials are being used, is the energy being used efficiently, etc. etc. etc. Basically the "greener" the building can be, the more credit it earns in the LEED system. The reason why more buildings aren't becoming LEED certified is because it costs a LOT of money to build a building like the Cub Foods in Phalen, over say a normal Cub Foods.

Basically, this week was a class to try and cram for a test to become a LEED Acredited Proffesional. The material I need to know is in a 400+ page book and has a very large amout of detail that requires memorization to take the test. I basically walked in knowing about 3% of what was on an 80 question test, and I'm walking out with knowing about 15%. I don't take the test until early april, but the amount of studying won't be easy. I'm really more upset at how grueling the whole class was. We were in our conference room for 24.5 hours in 2.5 days staring at Powerpoint slide after powerpoint slide pouring over this huge book. Trying to retain that much knowledge is like trying to drink from a firehose!


Anyway, enough about work.... how bout this wedding we got coming up!

The invites went out and it was pretty funny because I got to be the one to send them out. I'm reminded of an episode from Scrubs where Turk mails out his invites. I had to laugh a little bit because I realized that its starting to become very real and VERY exciting! Rich was with me and I think that having someone there for "moral support" was nice. It also helped because we had to weigh each letter individually because we were so close to the limit of the normal postage. Here's a little tidbit.. if your invite has a Ram stamp.. you owe me $.17!!

Kelsey and I went to pick out our wedding rings, and I found the one I wanted. Nothing special, pretty simple, but it feels right. I'm not a jewlery guy, but I don't think I'll have a problem wearing this ring on my finger for the rest of my life. :-) Now I just have to hope i don't lose it!


Still got another 2 hours before my plane boards, but I should probably get going. I can't wait to get home, not learn about LEED, maybe play a little video games, and hang out with my dog. Kelsey has a shower tonight, and if she gets home, i'll enjoy hanging out with her too.

HO K Peace out!