Well, I’m always telling you guys how busy I am – I feel like I am either saying or writing, “Sorry, it’s just really busy here.” ALL THE TIME over the past few years…
Well, that was just a JOKE – NOW I know what it’s REALLY like to be busy!
Work started on the new shop around the 4th of July. The previous tenants left the place an absolute disaster, and in addition to a MAJOR clean-up effort of all of their industrial strength trash, the building itself needed total renovation. So that’s what was going on in July and August – being done by outside contractors, and we were just in a holding pattern waiting for them to finish that up – drywall, some minor framing, new ceiling, spackling, paint, etc… Well, I shouldn’t really say “holding pattern” – we were really busting our humps to get jobs cleared out and stock the shelves with as many panels as possible since I knew the storm was coming…
Then, on August 25th, Brent and I went over and started preparing for a big work day on Saturday August 29th when a bunch of my friends came out and we built the mezzanine in one long day – it was like an Amish barn-raising!
Since then, I have worked 7 days a week, 16 hours a day – in a pretty intense heat wave no less – building out the new shop. I think I’ve lost about 8 lbs so far – but it has to be all sweat – Holy Cow was it HOT! It is coming along GREAT though, and if it doesn’t kill me, it is going to catapult Monocoque Metalworks to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL!
I have alot of photos to share – including photos taken on the very first day I saw the space (and what a dump it was!) – all the way up to the present day, and I will blog them, I PROMISE, but I just don’t have the time right now. But just so this isn’t a text-only post, I am including one photo to give you a taste.
This photo was taken by my buddy Stan at the end of that long Saturday when we put up the mezzanine. He was using a panoramic photo app, but I though he was taking a video, so I was jumping around, probably yelling something like, “Oh Yeah, Baby!” – and so that is why my face looks all deformed like Quasimodo in this shot…
This is a weird shot that makes things look a little smaller than they are – it’s a BIG space – although it’s getting smaller every day I think – hopefully we won’t outgrow THIS shop before we move in like the last one!
So stay tuned – it’s going to be nuts for probably about another month, but when the smoke clears, expect great things from us! – Chuck
