a bit of history

My irritation isn't recent. Here's an email I sent out in mid-August. I've already stopped using the architect, but that's another story.

We got another bunch of rain in our foundation trenches last night, and the forecast is for more rain this evening until tomorrow (Sat) morning. But next week is forecast to be sunny all week! Yay!

Saturday afternoon I'm going to drain the trenches again, dig out the mud, and blow dry the rest. I'll also assume you folks manage to get the seals, permits, and other aspects of your acts together so we can pour soon. Mario, I can still provide info on the small batch cement supplier's name if you don't have it, and if you still think it'll speed things up to start on the garage before we pour the foundation. I'd like to see actual movement on Monday morning.

I'd really like to see more action and fewer reasons why this isn't moving ahead. I'm upset with the delay, but I'm interested in solutions, not blame, and no one believes any of the delays are their fault anyway, so let's don't go into why we have delays. Let's go into what we're doing to eliminate them. Make me glad to be shelling out this money--you have a sales job to do, and I'l telling you what to sell: progress, action.

Send me a daily (M–F) emailed update, even if it's short. That's progress report, not inaction report. Tell me what you have done, do not tell me why nothing is happening.

 I got maybe two emails.