The last couple of days I’ve been getting robbed of my Holly time. Because of the time difference we usually only get to chat for about 20 minutes in the morning on msn, and maybe an hour in the evening on skype. The last few days though we have been getting even less than that. She’s been busy socializing and being a mom as well as a professional, and I’ve had my nights eaten up by trying to teach Don and Zack how to use Skethcup. It’s been going well, but hopefully last night was the last night of late evening skethcup class for a little bit. While I don’t mind teaching them I also have my own work to do. It’s not possible to do my stuff while helping them, so I have to wait until they leave. Not a huge problem, but I feel like I need to start getting more sleep – probably due to the fact that I’m working really hard all day, every day, in the sun, with little water, then biking to and from school ontop of that. I keep falling asleep at my computer and waking up in the middle of the night to close it. That wouldn’t be so bad, but I sit awkwardly in bed, and it’s starting to kill my back.

With no spare time to do my work, I’m forced to try and do it while James is speaking to the class in the morning. Right now my priorities are as follows: layout the triple hammer bent (frame, foundation, and fireplaces), finish my log course notes, finish James’ book, and then, finish modeling a jig James and a friend designed to make log building simple enough that one person could do it with little room for error.  I spent the entire hour we were in class yesterday working on two drawings. The top one is cool. It’s the jig. I made that drawing in less than 5 minutes. It’s simple looking, but some of the things I did to make it, would have taken me hours to figure out a few months ago.

The other drawing is just a foundation and footing drawing for the triple bent. That building is kind of annoying from my point of view, but it will be a nice place when it’s finished. And I will hopefully get to be involved in erecting it, so that will make up for any annoyance I’ve encountered so far, I’m sure.