09-01-2010, 10:26 PM
I wish I could ... but ...
I know in the beginning I said "Plant" and I was seeing the big main Building ... then I got into the processes performed in a manufacturing/processing facility and the once I got into the mock-ups I just got carried away! (Hey! It was more fun building little stuff out of nothing than I had had in many years ... I was having actual FUN!!!) It's not like any of that work will go to waste -- it was all good planning and what was learned will be put to good use as the different structures are completed. They just won't all be completed -- all seven buildings and three banks of different diameter silos -- by the September 7th deadline! I'm not super-human ... just an older guy who's been away from the hobby for twenty years and forgot that this was not going to be a bunch of "throw-'em together right out of the box kits" and that kit bashing and adding detail takes longer, even when you are not being exasperated by the clerical errors of some clueless, obviously unqualified government worker which is causing your life to be turned upside down and then having it all on you to prove that it is, in fact, clearly a stupid clerical error.
"Throw the bums out!"
I guess I can put off the VA and the other government agency that's being a pain in the tookus for a few more days and finish this little structure up ... I think I can get the Packaged Goods Shipping building finished on time ... and the name of the Challange is "structure" ... singular!
So ... I will soldier on, remembering ... Structure, singular, and not worry that my eyes may have been bigger than my brain back there at the beginning!
I know in the beginning I said "Plant" and I was seeing the big main Building ... then I got into the processes performed in a manufacturing/processing facility and the once I got into the mock-ups I just got carried away! (Hey! It was more fun building little stuff out of nothing than I had had in many years ... I was having actual FUN!!!) It's not like any of that work will go to waste -- it was all good planning and what was learned will be put to good use as the different structures are completed. They just won't all be completed -- all seven buildings and three banks of different diameter silos -- by the September 7th deadline! I'm not super-human ... just an older guy who's been away from the hobby for twenty years and forgot that this was not going to be a bunch of "throw-'em together right out of the box kits" and that kit bashing and adding detail takes longer, even when you are not being exasperated by the clerical errors of some clueless, obviously unqualified government worker which is causing your life to be turned upside down and then having it all on you to prove that it is, in fact, clearly a stupid clerical error.
"Throw the bums out!"
I guess I can put off the VA and the other government agency that's being a pain in the tookus for a few more days and finish this little structure up ... I think I can get the Packaged Goods Shipping building finished on time ... and the name of the Challange is "structure" ... singular!
So ... I will soldier on, remembering ... Structure, singular, and not worry that my eyes may have been bigger than my brain back there at the beginning!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln