Brief Update on Interior Efforts

Much work was completed Wednesday on the interior of Speedy Willie. 

The journey south to Rockdale, Illinois was a treacherous one, featuring emergency stops, emergency swerves, and emergency response!  The emergency stop was the result of an ill-timed yellow light in the middle of a 50 MPH zone, which are always killers. 

The emergency swerve was required when a band of asphalt laborers sprung from a shadowy ditch alongside Ridge Road in unincorporated Grundy County.  If you check Wikipedia, the demographics for Grundy County are made up mostly of asphalt laborers, so I guess I shouldn't have been that surprised.  That and amateur race car drivers. 

Emergency response was not called, though it probably should have been!  There was rust in eyes, sparks flying everywhere, and a potential four alarm blazes around every corner.  Luckily, disaster was averted.  God truly is smiling on us.

Anyways, it took about a half hour to get all the seats removed from Willie's belly, and that is when the engineering began.  I had my attache case with me and promptly retrieved all of the tricks of the proverbial trade.  Sharpened Pencil.  T-Square.  Graph Paper.  Plumb Bob.  Theodolite.  You know what I'm talking about.

Three and a half hours later, we had ourselves a brand new seating configuration.  There is much work to be done in the coming weeks, but we've taken the first, key steps. 

And I learned how to handle a MIG welder.  It looked hard, but you know how a couple of frosty Miller Lites builds a young man's confidence!  I'm kidding.  Kind of. 

Comments

[Manny]

Who else helped you with this? BECAUSE I've never seen you swing a hammer, get your hands dirty or use any sort of tool in my lifetime! Let alone a MIG welder.

[Dominic]

Very Funny, guy.

Just because you spent a summer bringing coffee and donuts to a framing crew doesn't exactly make you an expert!

[Manny]

Beg to differ guy... since I spent a summer framing houses and working at the rental company plus building a high rise/barracks/dining facility and homes. I think I have one up on you.

For once in your credit, Bob did say you did about 30% of the work.

AND where is the update from Sunday night? That had to be exciting.