{"id":570,"date":"2014-11-28T15:07:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T20:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modarchitect.net\/Archive\/?p=570"},"modified":"2015-06-04T17:09:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T21:09:34","slug":"architalks-4-a-day-in-the-live-of-jes-stafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modarchitect.net\/Archive\/architalks-4-a-day-in-the-live-of-jes-stafford\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life of MODarchitect"},"content":{"rendered":"
The fourth post in the #Architaclks blog post series.<\/address>\n
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Introducing The Client to the Super at the topping off ceremonies of Fletcher Town Hall<\/p><\/div>\n

The following is a somewhat accurate recollection of\u00a0“a day in the life”\u00a0on nineteenth of November, two thousand fourteen. Information is\u00a0omitted to protect the guilty, my privacy, your reading pleasure and the innocent from the thoughts I have or things I say when I am waiting a computer, repeating commands on or to a computer, forcing a portable computer to do something I should be doing on the desktop, driving around a bunch of people that do not drive exactly like me and talking with contractors. Pictures have been added from some other days in my life…for effect. \u00a0Move along now, nothing to see here.<\/p>\n

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with what might be a familiar routine to some of you.\u00a0 The radio comes on and my eyes open and search for something to focus on \u2013 a star peering through the part in the curtains.\u00a0 Morning Edition on NPR is a comfortable volume, thankfully. Although, I do not comprehend much of it as I have been laying for some time, wheels turning, thinking of the day before, the day ahead and visualizing design problems, solutions and grand visions of buildings that are free of budgetary constraints or perhaps free of any constraints from the physics of our Earth.\u00a0 I try to quiet all that a few minutes before getting up and just listen – radio voices, wife stirring, dog paws on the tile floor outside the bedroom door.<\/p>\n

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Now up, we head down the stairs, Nadine, Tiger and me.\u00a0 Nadine is a female basset beagle mix rescue dog that Annmarie and I adopted. Tiger is a male orange tabby that I rescued a few years before Annmarie or Nadine came alone. Heading out the back to find a nice and brisk morning, they roam and do their business and I take this time to get the blood flowing with the same warmup routine we used to execute before baseball games back in high school.\u00a0 After all that there is a moment I look forward to, walking around the side of the house.\u00a0 The lower part of our driveway makes a clearing that frames the pre-dawn sky between the woods and our 6 in 12 slope gable end roof.\u00a0 This moment, so sweet, only to gaze into the sky, scout for constellations and planets, spot satellites and breathe the mountain air before going back in and setting about the day.<\/p>\n

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A video posted by Jes Stafford (@modarchitect)<\/a> on