First Hurdles

Today I cut myself with the stanley knife. Graeme and Al went home early as the steel for sub floor is not all on site. Several phone calls and we think it's on a little truck somewhere between Gladstone and Mackay. Gotta love One Steel.

I have been able to secure a boarding arrangement with T, the neighbourhood helping hand. It's pretty handy, being only a few doors up from the building site. Have learned how to use my new gadget for phone calls (don't snigger, it's not as easy as you might think) and have developed the habit of asking everyone I see about it and they all seem to be able to show me something new. Thanks Paul for working out my PIN number for messagebank. My next big step is to figure out how to use the bluetooth headset. B reckons I'll look like a clown, wandering about talking to myself.

Topic for discussion this morning was tie downs - for cyclones etc. We appear to be over engineered for what what we are building and the builder expects the tie downs alone to take almost a week to complete. I guess the engineer doesn't want to get sued.

The master of our domain informs me during huffing, that he has had another stick go through a tractor tyre which meant a 2 km walk. Poor man, I wish I could split into two and leave one of me home. It's a two person job to take it off and put it onto the vehicle to take home for repair.

I tried to take a photo of the site this morning so I can start one of those time delay sequences and speed up the building process but our resident user of stuff (S) has flattened the batteries.

I am going over to Ned and Dulces (next door) later to show Dulce the joys of eBay. In between cleaning out the shed and putting the end caps on all the joists. Someone once lived in the garden shed and has left carpet and a bed - the carpet is saturated from 20 inches of rain so is pretty rank. That'll be fun.

All that and I've found an internet cafe up the road. A feed and a read, who can ask for more?