I believe I have mentioned the construction going on next to my office. Here is a relatively recent pic of the action.

To give you an idea, my office is the building on the right, the white column thing just to the left of center is a staionary crane that is taller than my 10 floor building. The right half of the site is going to be a huge glass cathedral and the left half will be a parking lot with the church offices and community hall on top.

The site used to be a surface parking lot that was level with the street - they have hauled out SO much dirt...

Wow, MG! That's something!

More adorableness:

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If you scroll most of the way down you'll see a pile of sixteen baby pandas.

If you are slightly higher, you will see one of our own...

I have to drive a kid to school in 8 minutes and yet I am in my jammies and slippers. I think I might have to get dressed now.

hell, just throw on a coat.

hell, just throw on a coat.

I second this. I walk Toto every morning in my jammies. It's just the way things go sometimes.

vw - each morning, after sunrise, I get my tea and then stand in the conference room window (I live in a cube farm, no windows for me) and watch the construction for a few. It is actually fascinating watching this site transform. They have gone from breaking up concrete and digging dirt to tons of ironwork and laying new concrete.

That's so cool, MG. I actually do something similar with the former ManRay site down the street. Each morning when I walk Toto, I try to figure out what's been done since the day before. It's pretty cool to get to see it all come together that way.

Of course, we got to see a house get moved. Did you get that? ;)

They picked up the house and moved it? How Wizard of Oz.

They picked up the house and moved it? How Wizard of Oz.

Yeah, they did. It was bizarre to watch. I should have taken pictures. And the weirdest thing is, it's not like they moved it somewhere else so it could be used. It's currently sitting on a parking lot four houses down from where it used to be. I have no idea what they are planning on doing with it.

They picked up the house and moved it? How Wizard of Oz.

my friend got a break on his house because they picked it up to do something to the foundation or something, and when they were lowering it back down they dropped it so, there something about the structural integrity of the house being slightly compromised. The engineer said that if he lived in a place with rough weather, he should worry about it, but it should be fine here.