Monday AM, the house next to us was nothing but floor joists on a foundation. Tuesday AM, the first floor was framed. Wednesday AM, the second floor was mostly framed. Thursday it was 40° and raining all day. So when I got home Thursday PM, I didn't expect to see anyone working there. But the framers' trucks were all there and they were blaring that accordion-based Mexican music that they always listen to. But nobody was hammering anything or sawing anything or moving wood around. They were just hanging out. OK, I did plenty of that when I worked outdoors - though I probably would've driven home rather than stand around in a skeleton of a house on the last day of winter. But, no big deal.<\/p>\n
About an hour later, I looked out my kitchen window and saw some bright blue and red lights flickering in the house's garage area. A TV? I looked some more and saw that the lights were being projected on the plywood wall, A projection TV? Why would anyone bring a projection TV to a construction site? Are they watching college basketball? I looked closer and figured out that it wasn't a TV at all. It was one of those multi-colored disco ball light things<\/a>.<\/p>\n A crew of a half-dozen house-builders, all men, all Hispanic, brought a disco ball into a cold and wet shell of a house and had a little party until 7:00 - their normal quitting time. I hope they billed the builder for the hours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday AM, the house next to us was nothing but floor joists on a foundation. Tuesday AM, the first floor was framed. Wednesday AM, the second floor was mostly framed. Thursday it was 40° and raining all day. So when I got home Thursday PM, I didn't expect to see anyone working there. But the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22026,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22025\/revisions\/22026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}