This post was inspired by some interesting conversations I had at my husband’s holiday party last week. After the many years I have had to endure his parties, I still am surprised at the things/ideas that come out of drunk engineers’ mouths. Basically I was talking to one of his employees who actually had this idea (I am not sure why he was telling me this being that I am the wife of his boss)and was actually thinking about following through. I’ll just say he was very, very tanked. I am not sure what it is with drunk engineers at holiday parties, but they usually spill their guts to me on all kind of crazy things…it’s pretty funny 🙂 However, on a serious note, I will say that the pain of our market is beginning to spill over to other businesses and professionals (like civil engineers) whose business is related to infrastructure, land development, and municipal funds.