Star Spangled Banner

The Star-Spangled Banner I was hired by Geep Mechanical in 1999, and little did I know I wasn’t just hired to a company but instead had entered what would be a six-year university. Everyone at Geep Mechanical was at least twenty years older than me. The first few years at Geep Mechanical were probably when

Life’s Memorable Moments: Stories that didn’t Make the Book

The FDIC Building Downtown Dallas: Part One During the summer of 2002, the plumbing company I worked for, Geep Mechanical, picked up a project at the FDIC building in downtown Dallas. The task was simple enough: drop a pair of chilled-water lines down from the roof of the twenty-two-story building through a pipe shaft to

The One-eyed Cow Vs. Two Combat Vets

God often has to teach us lessons; those lessons are often at the cost of our egos.