All Alone in Hale

It's Friday night and I'm stuck in Hale all by myself...well, Jose went to the computer lab but is coming back. This is actually a regular thing for me. Most of my work is done late at night because during the day I have other classes or group meetings. Tonight I heard about a girl getting mugged last night as she was walking to her car. Maybe I'll drag Jose with me to my car??

Design is coming along. This week was all about FOUNDATION. About half of the class was working on design and all the details of the foundation. I've been going through several sketches with Melody and Janina just deciding what worked best and looked best. We also built several study models. I think what we have now is great and I can't wait to get out onto the site and start digging and pouring. The grade on the site has been kicking us in the butts, but we finally designed a nice solution. In the end, there will be several interesting features involved in the site. I LIKE IT!

Donations are starting to come in. YAY for money! SIPs is looking more and more like it's not going to happen. The price is just too much. This sticks because SIPs would be amazing to use. Maybe we can push some money around in the budget, but even the budget is tight.

Tomorrow the class is meeting at the site at 8am, and Habitat for Humanity will be there too. We will be flagging the boundary of the house and layout of foundation. In a few days hopefully, we will begin foundation digging and pouring. This really needs to start moving along, because I'm tired of sitting at a desk staring at a computer screen for 5-6 hours at a time. I want to get out on the site and work in the sun with power tools that I will handle properly (of course). We watched to first couple of safety videos today. That was some of the worst acting but funniest stuff I've seen. It seems so common sense, but I'm sure accidents happen all the time, and I don't want to talk too soon.

...time for bed...