Today was pretty much a wasted day for me. I did very little work, and then sat around killing time for the rest of the day. I originally thought we’d have at least half the building up today, but by 5 o’clock we had only one corner section assembled and ready to go. Most of the day was spent waiting for the other groups to catch up, and finish their part of our corner section. Dave and I helped James move the last log building the previous years course had made, then I pretty much sat around until lunch.
The highlight of the day was Silvio getting told off by Dave, and then storming away (this is made all that much better by the fact that Silvio has to get a ride home from Dave every day, so he flips out and storms away saying “I’m fucking out of here!”, and then goes to the classroom and waits for 3 hours for Dave to take him home). I can’t imagine how fun that car ride across the island was.
The most productive part of my day was when I got to see my friend Peter. Unfortunately, when I got back from seeing him, I discovered that David was having a board meeting in his living room, so I was sort of unable to make dinner or shower. I talked to Holly for a bit, then Don showed up here asking me to fix his spread sheet for James. He had been working on it for hours he said and couldn’t figure out how to fix it. He had ONE cell that he somehow aligned the text to the vertical axis. It took me 3 clicks to fix it. He was both happy, and pissed at the same time.
Earlier in the day I had to explain what π was to Don. He was trying to figure out the area of the end of a log. He said, “How do you figure out the area for the end?”, I replied, “π r²”. Don’s response was an incredibly confused “what the fuck did you just say?”. I repeated myself, and he said “what are you talking about, pie?”. I then went on to explain that π is the circumference of a circle divided by it’s diameter, and that as far as we know it π is infinite. At this point he was completely lost. After about 20 minutes of examples, he remembered it (I think), and carried on without me.
After Don left David’s, I used his intrusion as an excuse to go make dinner and in doing so I missed my chance to talk to Holly before bed. I passed out at my computer, woke up about 2 hours ago (1:30am) incredibly thirsty and spilled juice all over me and my room. Now we’re both all sticky, and I can’t sleep.
Hopefully the building goes up well, and by noon so we can fuck off over to Ike’s place to have a tour of it.
The top photo is a shot of all the logs it’s taken to build this house. The bottom one is the corners for the house. We make them all together first, then cut them into quadrants to make 4 separate corner sections. Mine and Dave’s is the one closest to the camera.
