TNUTS an we love caps

T-nuts have arrived so the wall building can continue. The over hang is about 2/3 of the way complete. if school and work finally screw off some progress may be made on the rest of it. alas some more capital expenditures are due which will be handled by Senior Ledfoot Satan McGee as he was just paid, and I got the last round.

Pictures should be up soon. There are a number of them on Collins Camera. as soon as they get downloaded they should get up loaded and side loaded into your eye holes. That is about enough out of me plus it gets you up to speed.

enjoy

Beer and wall update

BEER!

The nut brown that has been fermenting for 2 weeks was bottled on Thursday night. The consistency was fairly light unfortunately. The flavor was good with no contamination. It id currently carbonating and will be drinkable in two weeks. The Amber we are fermenting will be ready to bottle later this week. Then there will be a complete blank slate. We are slated to brew three batches of beer for the upcoming tahog trip! the last weekend in November we will brew a porter, a nut brown, and an amber. the hope is to be able to keg these. Bottling is beginning to get a little cumbersome with 2 batches brewing at any given time. 5 gallon kegs unfortunately cost $100. Oh well capital budgeting. I bet the net present value of all future beer (cash) flows is win!!

Wall!

The structure for the overhanging wall is all in place. half of the paneling is up as well. The hold up is T-nuts. we have screw in t-nuts ordered for the sections of wall already up. For the rest I have an order of 1000 pound in t-nuts. we'll need to purchase more but will do that when the sections of wall are ready to go up. Things are progressing but never fast enough. As an addendum to the previously mentioned time line the ultimate deadline on the project is January 20th. This day will be spent in celebration all day by climbing and all night drinking to no more bush in office.

hanging issues still for the wall mainly consist of pads. I am not sure where or how we are going to get padding to fall on when climbing. we have a number of crash pads but I am sure that we are going to need more. we'll start scheming on that when I see what Will was able to dig up and what we have.

Wall Updates

The passing of an era has occured. due to some family ailments and ensuing shifting financial burdens, Will (coolest part-time roommate ever) will no longer be able to keep his climbing wall in the dungeon. Thus rent has been raised and Collin and I are faced with replacing the wall. being ones to not fear change but to grab it by the oversized round steering wheel, shifting it into reverse, slamming the gas, dropping the clutch, and pulling donuts in reverse while the other is wielding a semi-automatic shooting at whatever is passing by the pink cadillac in revere. . . we venture on!

Supplies have been gathered and construction has begun. To date we have been working on replacing the 40 degree overhang that Will removed. once this is fully in place, the expansion will begin. Included in the upgrades are a a verticle wall for less insane climbing, a dyhedral for stemming and a proposed top out area. A spare bedroom will be added, a good amount of storage space, and a bike rack are all in the works.

The largest and surprising cost is going to be t-nuts. we are going to spend close to a grand in t-nuts. Timeline: the overhang should be completed within the month and the rest of the walls should be up before the end of the year. hoping to have a party before the end of the year in celebration of climbing and beer!!!