Iron Man
Another week in at the construction site and all is going well. Dad did a real cool thing and sent me a new tool pouch deluxe model with double metal hangers. Really nice touch with some necessary items like tape measure, pencils, knife, pliers, hammer and a cool old metal square, two finishing nail sets, and a single nail. Arrived Thursday and was able to put it to good use already Friday, enough pockets and hooks to rig up a reel for my tie wire and special rebar/steel worker pliers as the day was spent as iron man tying up rebar in the forms for the future foundation. Pretty nice work because it’s right in front of you and you get a good-looking web of steel when you’re done. The steel is hard on your gloves so glad we have a Building Centre on the island to pick up a few more pairs for next week. Some of the walls are 14 feet tall of concrete, sticking to the engineer’s plans makes it interesting enough not to be boring tying wire after wire and getting pretty darn fast at it after trying a few tricks and working out a system. We have a second labourer and I’ve got a job promotion to “Labourer Lead Hand” and a raise to go with it too. And every day we work with a view of the mountains and ocean, nice!
Two ads in the Undercurrent for a new place to live, one of them way out on Windjammer. Haven’t got hold of them but think it’s the small cabin which is perfect for me but have to find out if there is cable/internet service already in place. If the main house already has internet then I’ll offer to network a few rooms for them and me in exchange for sharing connections. Another one is in an apartment building, passing on that because you might as well live in the city almost as Bowen’s rentals are 98% suites in homes or semi and detached cottages etc. which is the type of situation I’m holding out for. Will see what I hear from the first one tomorrow.