Grinding into the new year

Sort of nice getting back to work after a week off and New Years Day. It didn't take long before I was in the thick of things at the office with technical posters submissions on two fronts besides intensive proposal graphics sandwiched in and around some smaller efforts. In November the office received a state level engineering organization honor award for a river sediment leakage remediation project we had submitted. That entailed the project management doing a write up of the the project and providing me with text and imagery to develop a 30 x 30 inch photographic display as a supporting visual for display use. The honor level award made the submission eligible for the national level so that needed some adjustment to submit for the Friday deadline, shipped the day before. Then there was the annual conference on remediation and management of contaminated sediments that is a forum for sharing research results, practical experiences, and opportunities associated with remediating, restoring and managing the environmental and economic vitality of waterways. Now there's a mouth full. For that I laid out 6 eight foot wide by three foot high posters of technical information and imagery from an assortment of engineers and scientists from my company and including some associates from other companies. I'd been working on those for the past month all of which when finally approved I arranged for laminating, picking up, packaging in shipping tubes and sending to the hotel Friday that our attendees are staying at beginning today. I've done posters for these events once or twice a year for several years now. They look great when done but it all needs to get done amidst everything else I have to do. It took up to today to catch up with it all.