8/7/07

One month ago I was at the Tail of the Dragon. I've been showing the pictures around all day today. Tony sent me a CD with about 400 pictures he shot/bought from the trip. I've got them loaded into my screen savers on the laptop and the work computer. Well, not all 400 pictures, just the ones that are relevant. Anyhoo, after looking at them I'm ready to go back. I wonder if either of those lodges needs an experienced Audio/Visual guy. Of course I said the same thing when I got back from Alaska. But I didn’t have nearly as much accumulated junk back then. I could have packed it all in and moved away at that point in my life. I don’t think I could make a major cross-country move as easily nowadays. Wow, “nowadays” is actually a word? I never would have thought it. Well, speaking of thinking, and moving for that matter, I've been giving the Boyd shop idea more thought. I think I really want to consider planning to start working on thinking about getting the ball rolling on preparing to work on the process of looking into what it is going to take to get a 60’ x 80’ building built out there. I know I'd get more work done on the various and sundry projects if it weren’t so damned hot in the shop. I want HVAC in at least, well, a large portion of the building. I guess it depends on how big an apartment I want in the corner of the shop. Well, that and if I want the apartment to be on the second story above the work bay portion of the shop. I'm thinking that if the apartment is on the second story, I could have an equal amount of HVAC shop underneath it. A 60’ x 20’ apartment would be 1,200 square feet of living space. 1,200 square feet of workspace would probably be plenty, I would think. Then again, I do have a plan drawn up of a place with 1,800 square feet of HVAC shop under 1,400 square feet of apartment. Where’s the lost 400 square feet? In my drawing I have an opening in the middle of the apartment looking down into the main work bay. I'll probably forego that idea however. What would make more sense would be to have a windowed off section looking down on the work bay. Of course it does eat up 400 square feet of the apartment. No, what makes the most sense is a finished apartment above a work area with HVAC and no overlooks or anything silly like that. I believe going up is cheaper than going out. So, a “two story” 60’ x 80’ building with a 60’ x 20’ apartment above some of the shop space, would be cheaper than a 60’ x 100’ building with the apartment on the ground level. Of course the whole upper level could be “finished out” to some extent as well, doubling the floor space. I don’t know. We’ll see I guess. Well, I've dozed off twice now staring at the screen trying to think of more to say. I think I'll shoost this off to Spiderman and call it a day. It’s getting close enough to quitting time for me. Have a day.