With butter

You can eat your cauliflower pizza. And you rock hard bread substitute and steak with bacon deep fried in coconut. I will be over hear eating my potatoes, potatoes with butter. Also my salad with no oil and fruit lots of fruit. And maybe a skinless chicken. But I won't spend all evening telling you about how wonderful my diet is or how much weight I lost or when I expect to have my heart attack! 

Carbohydrate

To all my Banting- cult following friends. Just like to point out that cauliflower is indeed a carbohydrate. It is low in them but still a carbohydrate. Consider this helpful piece of information. 

Day job

Email director. Architect. Really what's the difference. 

Your email is important to us.

Some times I wish they had told us in university that about 89 percent of my day would involve fielding and sorting though and writing all the millions of emails that are "vital" to the construction of buildings. 

Bought a book

I bought a book. You know the second hand kind that smells like, mildew and other peoples sweaty pictures. Actually I got so exited I bought 4 of them, it was scintillating. This is not because I don't read I read all the time, I have a kindles and all my books are synced between all my devices. This is because it has been years since I've been on a book browsing evening. I was amazed to discover that the book shop was still open. (apparently someone still reads hard copies). Gues what else it had really good stock, all the great reads where in. Some times happiness can be contained in simple little acts that you really love to do, remember to do them sometimes. 

Soul

On dying well. I believe there is such a thing. My grandmother passed away yesterday. I went to the park into the wild autumn expanses and imagined that her soul was a million butterflies in flight. I though she would have liked that image. I hope in her last moments she found a glorious and vivid end to a life well lived. 

But why

So times architects dispair of these kind of questions but why does city council require x or y. I don't know why, they made this requirement up last Tuesday after attending "training" entitled useless requirements your department needs to implements and drinking a bottle of wine, or smoking a splif. Honestly no one knows you just have to comply and play within the boundaries of their rules. They are like god but without the warm cuddly love your Neighbours part. Resistance is futile. The life of an architect birth, city council , death. 

Brain power

Yes, yes, yes it's been one of those weeks. You know when people say architects are such know it all,I'd say yes have you any idea how many things you have to know in order to design and co ordinate the construction of a building? 

Here is a random list of things I've had to lean about in Oder to design things. 

How ballistics work, 

How hospitals function

How schools function

The process involved in film productions 

How 20 family's live and relate to each other ( surprisingly not the same at all who knew?) 

How super evangelical churches function ( why there can be no loss of eye contact between crazy preacher and people coming forward for prayer / alter calls)

How to move and display a car collection of 20 cars up a steep hill in a private home. 

How bank branches work.

The history of the Xhosa people's

How cellphone stores sell you stuff.....

UH, You get the picture..... 

Another question I don't really want to know the answer too is why are there so very many photos of DIFFERENT,  atomic  bomb explosions when you search for images of atomic bomb on Google? 

Anyway on that cheerful note happy weekend everyone!