gil told ben that when he was working as a roofer in sacramento , california - it was such a long way away to fix roofsgil always went such a long way to do such unimportant thingsnot to say that roofing was unimportant , it just seemed to ben that he could have stayed in stansbury to fix roofs or do any of the other hundred or so jobs he had done in other places before he lost his arm and had to come home - that these developers just kept on building long after the market demanded their buildings .