Day 275 October 9, 2002

OK so the meeting is tonight, not last night. I figured it out right away by the empty parking lot. D'oh! I'm not ashamed to say I don't know what day it is. You all should be so lucky. Anyway, I walked around on my nice finished floors for a while, them got busy applying polyurethane to the loft ceiling. I had polyed everything from the collar ties up when I put the ceiling in, leaving the last part for another day. That apparently is today. I can't wait to be done saying "poly". When I finished up the first coat, the electrical inspector arrived for my final electrical inspection. He has a tool that he plugs into random outlets and every GFI outlet that checks voltage, voltage under load, impedance and polarity. It has a button he pushes to simulate a ground fault to ensure the GFI works correctly. He counts the outlets, smoke detectors, lights and such to make sure I didn't miss anything. He was pleased and passed me. He suggested I add another light in the basement and one outside the basement doors. I will. He signed off and split. I was happy to have that over with.

Next I turned my attentions to the driveway. Since it has been so dry, the driveway hasn't stayed packed down and is now rather bumpy. I took a left-over roll of metal reinforcing wire and folded it over several times, chained a few cement blocks and boulders on top of it and attached the chain to the back of The Big Yellow One. I then dragged the drag up and down the driveway, smoothing out the high spot and filling in the low ones. It was quite effective, although I need to do some more when I get more diesel fuel. The machine was running low and I didn't want it to quit in the driveway and block me in. I left around 7:30 PM to go to a meeting about property taxes.

8 hours, cool and breezy.