General Jackassery

Okay, I admit it, the concrete canoe is in my blood! I realized this weekend when I didn’t get a chance to work on the cross-section that I’ve been building that I actually missed it. I’m not sure if it’s becuase I didn’t want to be here at work or if it’s because I really wanted to work on the cross-section. I think it’s mostly that I wanted to work on the cross-section. I have a goal of being done with the mold part of it by the time the club is ready to lay-up the real boat. That way we have plenty of time to make it look perfect. I believe for the first time in the history of the competition the cross-section is actually being judged for craftsmanship, so it’s sort of important that it be done right. I’ve got a really good start on it and we’re looking at doing something pretty diffrent with it from what we’ve done in the past. I think it’s going to be pretty awesome when it’s done. Anyway, I’ve started looking forward to going to the competition in March. I mean it should be really fun to get to go to Tampa, FL for a couple of days, but I think the kids have a pretty good chance of winning this one. They have to get their collective butts in gear in the water though. It’s really time they started practicing a little more seriously and getting into better shape, but they have a good bit of time to get in shape and get good.

In other news, we got the 95% submittal for the Access Road we’ve been working on done this weekend. The cost was Thad and I were here virtually all weekend. I worked 9+ hour days on Saturday and Sunday, then got here at 7:00 Monday morning and worked until 9:00 on Tuesday morning, but we got it done. There is still one more iteration, the Final Submittal, so we’ll have some clean-up work, but there shouldn’t be any major changes. It’s looking like Thad and I will have to go to Pueblo one more time to pick up the last bit of survey for this project, but it should only be a couple of days. Anyway, we should have this out of our collective hair in a couple of weeks. Then it will be time for the next Pueblo design, upgrading the roads in the area where the weapons that we’ll be destroying are stored. So for now I get a little bit of a break. I’ll be working on creating new files and preferences to make my life easier when we start new designs, and I have to do some touch up work on the design that we have to get it ready for the final submission, but things should be much slower for the time being.