Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Back Breaking Work


A friend of mine who designs and builds impressive dry stone walls sent me a Sketchup file of a clever looking thing he's going to be building for a client. I texted back to tell him I thought it was pretty cool. I made a casual remark about how much easier it was on the back to draw than to build.

He texted back. "Actually it's hard on the back. 

"That's funny" I replied

"It took me twenty hours of work in a computer chair to get that far. My backs actually killing me."

"Crazy! Getting the build on grade was difficult I bet?"

"Yeah the straight part went super fast. The graded bits were exponentially slower.  I basically had to build the wall in cyberspace... and then there were the copes!!!" (frazzled emoji face)

He went on "It's funny but sitting in a chair is way worse on my body than walling. And I have a good chair. I could never work in an office."