Yes, it’s definitely a personality type. Patrick has it, too, but with less outspoken grandiosity.
There is a lot of variety. He went to three different sites one day last week and did three different things: run seismic waves through the soil under a parking lot; watch cement being poured; wash a soil sample to determine its particulate ratio.
Much better than restaurant work, and I’m sure that they’ll pay him more once he’s been at it for a while.
It sounds encouraging for Tom, anyway, and I wish him the best of luck.
Mona has been and gone this morning. She came over yesterday and borrowed a box of salt and promptly put it on her sidewalk. She did this late in the afternoon when the temperature was dropping so this morning, when I looked out, I saw a sheet of clear ice on the sidewalk.
I gave her a cup of coffee and listened to her rattle. I don’t know what she’s on, but she’s really hyper lately.