Before lunch yesterday I drove over 300 nails by hand, this lead to my first blister of the trip. It was a small blister so it turned into a callus over night, but it still proves that I really did so some work here. It’s been rumored that I’m just taking pictures and blogging but not doing any building, now I can prove otherwise. I didn’t get around to posting yesterday but everyone should have enjoyed the post by UNCA – Freshman, Paul Paddock. Thanks to him I got a small break from the daily grind on the blog. We left the build site promptly at 3:30 to get showered and changed then had a wonderful diner of lasagna and garlic bread before heading out to the play. The play was hilarious even though the first act was mostly setup and only gave me a few chuckles, acts two and three had me rolling in the isle. I did miss the beginning of act two, however, due to a contact malfunction that began two minutes after the intermission ended. Today we are off for another build day from 8:30 – 4:00. After lunch and breaks are taken out, we spend about six to seven hours building each day (at about 600 – 700 calories per hour for construction work, that’s a good workout). Yesterday we also found that one of the circular saws had the safety disabled, photos to follow. This was very worrying to me because I found this out as I was showing someone how to adjust the depth of the blade and the trigger was bumped, I still have all 8 of my fingers though, plus two thumbs. One person needed stitches so far, but that was due to a tragic pencil sharpening incident. Also, it seems that the blog has become quite popular. We’ve had over 1500 visits and 1000 of those are just from the last three days. Tell your friends and any news outlets about this blog so we can try to get it up to 10,000 visits. It’s just about time to hit the road, so enjoy these photos and I’ll post more later.
Busy day
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