Day Seven
Today started out on a high note when Grover took his toast in the bathroom with him so he could finish his breakfast while on the john. Work-wise it was pretty mellow. We pulled in around 10:00 and began to fill in some extra ribs in the flat bottom. Then we scrounged through the dumpster looking for scraps of 2×4’s and plywood so we could begin the very tedious process of leveling out the flat bottom. Even more tedious was all the arguing about the various methods of doing so. There were lots of wacky high-jinks, especially the battle between the Grover and Gordo methods of leveling. As soon as one person left, the other would undo other’s work and redo it his own way. Super productive! As a result, the whole ramp probably got leveled 5 times over. We sent Gordo out for more missing supplies so that we could start attaching the transitions without arguing. He came back and liked what he saw. We continued the slow and annoying process of attaching and leveling the trannies with only the occasional break to watch Grover lip sync to Billy Idol on the new wave radio station. Every so often a local would stop for a gander. One guy actually asked us if we were going to cover the ribs with snow. Yes sir, that’s exactly what we’re going to do! I guess he’s not a big X-games fan. By 5:00pm we had everything attached and somewhat level. We didn’t have the right screws for the first ply so we called it a day. We were also sick of leveling and lifting. We figured that if hadn’t been for all the needless delays earlier in the week we would be on the second ply by now. We were looking forward to skating at night but Marine Supply was closed and Real Ride was having BMX night again for the love of Joseph Smith.
Next Day First ply!
