I doubt I’m alone in this experience—you’ve just had a success of some sort and you’re feeling good about it . . . so something else goes wrong. After every high, a low will follow. The universe may be trying to keep things in balance, but it would be nice to be able to celebrate an achievement, big or small, without having to wonder what will happen next.
Big News for The Advertiser
Our July issue was our largest to date—100 pages! We even released it on Friday, June 30, so that we could enjoy our Fourth of July plans knowing it was already out. Yippee!
But then, we stumbled upon a problem. Our website hosting company might have thought it made an insignificant change, but it created a monumental problem for our magazine. They installed code which would downsample the primary online reader version every night. (The posted PDF was unaffected.) They didn’t even inform us—we discovered, by accident, that the magazine was posted but you could not read any of the text!!! After several days of re-posting the issue and arguing with tech support, we eventually devised a version that could be read 24/7. The problem was fixed . . . but the balloon of our first 100-page issue sure was popped by the inability of people to read it during that period.
How About That House?
Perhaps you remember the custom home we featured in our March 2017 article? Brought to us by James Clinich of Noltex Truss, the two-page spread displayed several photos of an impressive project in Midland, TX. Well, they’re going to get to build it again!
Unfortunately, the house made the local news on June 27 when it was the site of a two-alarm fire. According to KWES, “Authorities said the only thing standing at this time is the beams and frame of the home, everything else has burned to the ground.” On the bright side though, no one was there so no one was injured.
Promoting Deck Safety
A different piece of news that makes us very happy—Frank Woeste’s July article, “Anatomy of an Inherently Dangerous Deck,” is being referenced in several educational and technical forums. In fact, a link to it is included on the AWC website, under the section for “Deck Inspection and Other Resources” on the page for DCA 6 – Prescriptive Residential Wood Deck Construction Guide. Nice work, Frank!
Now, let’s hope more people heed the advice in that article as well as this month’s, “Evaluating an Existing Residential Deck” on page 66. Let’s not follow this high with a low that brings more stories of deck collapses. Let’s decide that the lows have come first, and we can end on a high instead!