So very, very tired.
We have the theatre, we have a lot of funky new toys. Of course, for every roll of Spectra, there’s a few dozen spreader beams to hang, at a couple hundred pounds each. Nonetheless, there is Spectra. If you’re not a rope nerd, just use your imagination.
So, work proceedeth apace. There’s a bit of “Oh, that beam you hung yesterday? Can you move it 3 inches?” as the blueprints meet reality, but you get that on the big jobs, and oh boy is this a big job. And it’s nowhere near as bad as I expected.
Unfortunately, finally getting into real work (== 10 hour days and much tiredness) has coincided with the 3-month blues. I was warned about this – 3 months in the thrill has worn off, but you still don’t feel at home or speak the language, and you miss your friends, but haven’t really made new ones yet. I’ll cope, it’ll pass, but I’d kill for bacon and eggs at the Blue Train right about now. U.S. bacon, quite frankly, is not worthy of the name. I now understand the “Move to Macau, eat at Pizza Hut” thing, though we eat “local” food most days, on the grounds that we can stuff ourselves for about $10 AU each. Unless we go for Japanese, which is shockingly expensive. Last night, we had 5 dishes, including tempura prawns and mixed sushi platter, and a couple of beers, and it cost MOP410. That’s nearly $30 AU *each*….
On which note, goodnight. Bedtime for this little black duck, to do it all again tomorrow. But it’s glamourous grid dust, because it’s *circus* grid dust….
jai.
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January 16th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Dear god, you use Spectra by the roll?
I’m trying to remember if there were sailing applications where it was *not* a good idea, due to snap loadings (mostly sheets). But yes, everybody lusted after Spectra vangs and halyards.
January 16th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
We have, in the rigging shop, 2 rolls of 1/2 inch Spectra. I think they’re 100 foot each. We also have some cord on order for tool lanyards. We fly a lot of people, and when you have a 40 metre grid, you wind up with a really long rope run, so the low weight-per-metre is as important as the ten ton rating.
jai.
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