Melanie Stone

I wasn’t sure if it was Academy, or Star Trek: The Cruise related.

During my divorce, my wasband’s lawyer insisted I’m not really disabled, because I’m not on disability.

Uh, if I WAS on disability, then you’d want to take my kids cause I can’t support them on that.

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Had such a great time presenting a session at AECTechCon again this year.

Even got to pop into the executive session for a couple minutes to talk about Facility Owner/Operator roadblocks and successes.

There were a lot of brilliant folks sharing experiences and trying to integrate with others.

I wonder what I was saying at this point that needed both hands to emphasize?

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Well, closing was delayed due to a job change.

Now closing is NEXT week.

Updated my initial floor plan sketch based on dimensions from the surveyor.

We have an appointment for closing on our new house next week!

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What a relief vs renting.

And feasts… don’t forget feasts, and cookies.

As a teenager, I was left to die, because “preexisting condition” and “lifetime spending cap”.

I was a lucky one, as I was in a time of paper health records.
So I survived long enough to get a desk job and lie my butt off and finally get treatment again.

That would be ideal.

As a computer based worker, I have not worked for a Missouri based employer since about 2015… that’s not likely to change.

In other news… I had a hysterectomy this fall, after trying all year to get one.

My original surgeon’s office, her backup surgeon, and the surgeon’s office I ended up finding an opening with were absolutely SWAMPED and always commenting about the workload this year every time I was in there.

That is so cool. Lol

I just burned 600 calories in my morning workout…

Donating blood 🩸 at the #redcross

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For the #aec #aeco #bim #cad #autocad #revit #c3d #bricscad #bricsys #architecture #engineering #design folks out there, the #AUGI #AGM Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 11th, and noon pacific.

It's Monday. Attack it with the confidence of someone who just assembled an IKEA bookcase and is trying to convince an onlooker that all those extra pieces are just "spare parts..."

#monday #construction

The vicious cycle of monopolization:

1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market.
2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers.
3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations.
4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement.
5) Repeat.

No idea.

This was a competition I participated in during my senior year of high school.

2 years later, I had my first professional job and had a REALLY big and fancy $$$ “flat screen” CRT that I used for over a decade longer before replacing.

Man, the IT guys hated me, that thing weighed like 80#

Okay, I ran across a pic of cats with #stem jobs.

And one of them reminded me of… me.

#aeco #aec #cad #bim #autocad

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

Group of women and men in a meeting room, with a presenter teaching.

Slide listing upcoming design engineering events in St. Louis, MO in 2025.

The #stlrug is grateful to Christner, Inc. for hosting our #revit #whatsnew session, in their beautiful offices!

Great to network and learn with #aeco #aec #contech #bim #engineering #design colleagues.

Okay, I’m gonna have to Google this one. 🤣

I could’ve gotten the old drafting table from my first job at the hospital… older than my parents.

BUT at one point, our Director (when he was still an engineer) sawed the legs down, so it’s the same height as a file cabinet.

WAY too short. I need something to stand up at.

What a year this month has been…

Logging off work for now, to rest up for a busy weekend.

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Lovely to see so many happy(ish) new faces over here!

Happy to be here and finding my way around.

I miss my finely curated list of great AECO and software dev people from the platform previously known as twitter, but I hope to build a new one here.