Day 19: Yes Sir Dawg

I worked on the ceiling crew again today, but this time I was with the guys punching holes. We use this air-compressor attachment that clamps down on the I-beam and slowly pushes a hole in the steel until it finally pops through. It makes a really loud sound, so the crew working on punching the holes has to wear earplugs. Most of the crews that work adjacent and around end up wearing some earplugs or just covering their ears before it punches the hole.

I started out working with Brad, moving scaffolding around for a while, but then Alfredo moved me to the hole-punching crew. He and Brad worked with the mag-drill doing some of the holes that the punch can't reach. The mag-drill takes forever, cause instead of punching a hole in a few seconds, it actually has to hang there and drill through a half-inch of steel. So they spent the entire morning until lunch doing one row of holes and hanging the blocks of iron. In the time it took them to drill those, we had 4 or 5 rows done.

I mostly pushed scaffolding, but during the second shift, I actually worked with Felipe, punching the holes. That kept me awake a little better than standing around waiting to push the scaffold. I punched holes the second half of the third shift also, and those two hours went by a lot faster than the two right after lunch.

Alfredo always says, "Yes Sir Dawg," really fast, instead of only saying "yes" or "yes sir." It's pretty funny, and I get a laugh out of it every time. He's a weird guy. Brad says he makes him laugh a ton, just with all the weird looks he gives Brad.

Occasionally I'd see Skye and Josefina walking back and forth, transporting materials or talking to each other in broken english and hand-signals. Josefina really only speaks spanish, although she's learning english, having to work around us all day. Skye worked pass-thru all day, as well as Quinn.

I found out this morning that yesterday we got another "Safety" personnel. Now we've got "Safety Joe" and "Safety Shelley." Thank goodness for "Safety Joe," who basically walks around and looks at stuff all day. It's a good thing we've got "Safety Shelley" around to help, in case Joe doesn't quite cut it.

Brad told me today that while he was leaving yesterday, he was almost Magneto. It's his dream to be Magneto, haha. They were moving these giant metal box-room things into place and one was on a forklift, but Brad didn't know it, and he started to pretend to move it with his Magneto powers. Then they moved exactly where he commanded them, and he was freaking out until he realized it was a forklift. Good ole Brad.

Ron was trash-talking us all day, after he played basketball last night. He's excited because we decided to play once a week with him. We were talking with him, and realized that both he and Skye's dad went to Cottonwood High School at the same time. When Skye told Ron that his dad was Bryce Larsen, the starting running back, Ron got this weird look and sat there for a minute, as if lost in thought. Then he said, "I know him! Bryce Larsen....I know him." Then Skye told him that he ran track and stuff and Ron was like, "Yeah, we were good friends!" Skye had to leave after that, but a few minutes later, Skye's dad came walking across the grass to see Ron after about 20 years. "Is that Rone Atine?" he said, happily. They laughed and started talking. Quinn and I had to go, but it was cool to find out that Ron and Skye's dad knew each other.

Anyway, today went pretty slow and it was pretty uneventful, other than when Brad and I picked a section of the FAB and figured the number of holes in the tiles in the whole area. Turns out that there were 1,789,952....


Quote of the Day:

"I want 'Safety Joe' and 'Safety Shelley' to get married and make 'Safety babies.'"
-Brad


Ron's Trash-Talk of the Day:

"Yeah, better play inside cause it's gonna be raining...........raining three's!"
-Ron