These are indeed interesting times. Changes abound in technologies, practices, and the economy. Where will it end? Got news! It never ends! It goes on and on. Up or down. That's why they call it 'life'. The main concern should be, 'planning'. Where are you going to be in the Spring of 2010? What strategy are you implementing for the building industry and it's needs for the next boom? How will you exercise your rights as property owners? As professional contractors? As American working citizens? Gearing up for the future seems a daunting task at the end of the year 2009, when so much is going wrong. But considering negatives should be an avenue for gaining insights for positives. Otherwise, the game is over, we loose. The building industry has so many avenues of advancement, it is inconceivable to imagine doom and gloom. If this were not true, the construction talk radio business would have no future. But the field is alive and continuous, sustainable, adding facets in the rough, with polish, will become as bright as the clearest diamond. But polishing takes work, just as any home on the street takes building.We have some serious irons in the fire. Some local, some national. It is truly exciting to think of the tremendous influence the building industry has on American life. As the future becomes ' today ', we hope to have planned in such a way, as to meet the needs of some very technical questions of our time. It's exciting to expect these issues manifest for the benefit of our trades. So stay tuned in here, because the issues now kept in secret for a time, will be revealed in their maturity. " Building the Building Industry,"  Ken Swanson