A Busy Winter

When it comes to blog­ging on a reg­u­lar basis, I’m incon­sis­tent. Being incon­sis­tent is prob­a­bly one of the worst ways to attract a reg­u­lar audi­ence on the Inter­net. To be frank, hav­ing a reg­u­lar read­er­ship has never been my goal with this web­site, nor was it meant to make any money (hence no adver­tise­ments.) It’s meant more as a one-off type of site in which I might come across some ideas that might prove use­ful or inter­est­ing to oth­ers. Try­ing to be use­ful to oth­ers also serves some level of pro­mo­tion for my field of work.

That being said, I’ve had an extremely busy win­ter con­cern­ing my archi­tec­tural ren­der­ings and illus­tra­tions and haven’t got­ten around to writ­ing here much. Every win­ter for the past eight plus years, for some odd rea­son has been usu­ally busy. The pat­tern usu­ally lasts until the spring, calms down, then picks up again late sum­mer only to be fol­lowed be another slow spell. I don’t know what it is about this line of work which cre­ates this cycle. I’ve often won­dered if it is related to other com­pa­nies quar­terly bud­gets, or fol­lows a sea­sonal build­ing and con­struc­tion pat­tern. I’ve asked both devel­op­ers and archi­tects to see if they have had any insight, and so far the response has been blank.

Many years ago, I worked at a start-up com­pany in which the owner had a track record of being a good busi­ness­man. He told me to always answer the ques­tion of “how are things going with your busi­ness” with “great” although his new busi­ness ven­ture was strug­gling. His patent answer never really sat well with me — it always struck me as a bit dis­hon­est, although I can see where he is com­ing from and what he’s get­ting at. Are things always per­fect? Hon­estly and objec­tively no, but I sup­pose it depends on whether or not you view your glass as half empty or half full. The hon­est answer is that the econ­omy kicked the crap out of peo­ple in my line of work for the past few years. I think it’s def­i­nitely improv­ing after the col­lapse — this year has already shaped up to be one of the busiest years in recent history.