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mountain

22:32 Sunday 5 December 1999

The mountain is pretty much complete. Well, except for the painting it part. It basically looks like a big pile of shaving cream. I love it! I have had such big great fun building this thing, and testing it... I think I will build a fountain to install permanently in my living room somewhere. Some kinda fountain with a long and winding path for the water to traverse.

Today we spent pretty much all day on this project, though a lot of time was required to simply let the Great Stuff harden for 2 hours after each application. I worked on Indigo Angel website during one 2-hour span, and in the next 2 hour span, Wende and I went to Indigo Angel where we grabbed some quartz crystals to decorate the mountain in some manner, and then zipped back home just in time to watch Simpsons and Futurama.

From Indigo Angel, to Wende's house where she fed her cats and we peed. Then she was all, "okay, let's grab a bite to eat at Taco Bell, then zip over to your house for The Simpsons." It was 6:43; that left 17 minutes. "C'mon let's go!"

Zipped to Taco Bell; I dropped her off and turned the car around to wait for her. Soon as she came out, I pulled out of the spot, she hopped in saying, "you're not going to believe this," and we sped away.

"What, you forgot my taco?"

"Nope."

"You got Root Beer instead of Dr. Pepper?"

"Nope."

"What?"

"They were out of cheese."

"Heh. That's funny."

She wasn't kidding, but it is still funny.

Zippy zipped home and ran upstairs. Turned the TV on. 30 seconds later the chorus of voices called, "Ahhhhhh The Simpsons..."

I greatly enjoyed the episode.

Futurama was pretty funny too.

By then the mountain was ready for a test run. Took it outside to the parking lot, tossed an extension cord out the window to run the pump, filled a bucket with water for the pump to use, plugged it all in, and watched it run, checking to see if the water would drain down the mountain the way I wanted. Mostly it didn't, but simply poured down into holes between the lumps of hardened foam. I marked the spots with a pen so I could fill them and try again.

Filled the spots and I think it's pretty much ready to go. I'm in the latter half of a 2 hour hardening phase.

Work tomorrow and then on Tuesday we will all meet and hopefully get all this stuff finished up.

With Love
- Rob permalink

work

Yay!

Great fun at work today; got to learn some new SAS stuff.  I pretty much 
don't like the language - it's not strictly structured like C, sloppy 
variable typing and sloppy function calls.  but I can handle it!

Oh, and the best thing of all- I asked if I could be paid today for the 
past week of work instead of waiting until next official payday, and Karla 
was like, "no problem!"

YAY!  I need the cashola to cover the cost of the water altar and stuff. 
 And to buy some happy gifts for my homies!

See ya!

	With Love
	- Rob