Easy day ahead

Today will be a blow-off day if there ever was one.  Today from 9am to 1pm I'm attending a class explaining the new IRC (International Residential Code) that goes into effect soon.  Every few years the deadwood engineers at the building code writing board update things, which is just an exercise they go through to show their bosses they actually DO something that's worth a paycheck.  


If you read the code you'd wonder if they had personally ever built even so much as a dog house.  Their college textbooks might have said XX, but no one ever tried to sync the world of academia with the real world we live in.  It's a farce!  Building inspectors will tell you their inspections are based on their interpretation of the code, and that's what causes problems for builders.   One inspector's interpretation will often not match another inspector's interpretation.  One inspector requires something, another prohibits it.  They're pretty much making it up as they go along.  (Another reason houses cost so much.)


Oh well.  I'll sit through their class, nod and smile, and eat the lunch provided.  It's supposed to be 99 degrees again today, and I'll be in a cool classroom.  Could be worse.  ;)


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