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Workin... eh… at Kanawha gutter.

27 Dec 2013

Forklift moving supplies.

27 Dec 2013

Dozer in the mud on the north retaining wall.

24 Dec 2013

Backhoe and Hole-poker working on southwest corner of retaining wall.

24 Dec 2013

Forklift moving supplies in the rain.

23 Dec 2013

Puttering in the rain.

23 Dec 2013

17. Week of Monday, 23 December, 2013

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Monday, 23 December, 2013 to

Saturday, 28 December, 2013

Blog, Photos and Videos in reverse chronology.

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This week has been a testament to man’s

machines. Not only is man more productive with

machines, but visually he appears more productive

with machines. It is easy to anthropomorphize and

attribute the productivity to the machines

themselves. A four to six man crew worked on the

retaining walls all week sans Christmas. In

addition, a crew -- not confirmed as associated

with 5333 -- worked on the south side Kanawha

gutter at Connecticut and Kanawha. However, the

only time the site appeared productive is when

the forklift moved supplies, the backhoes briefly

tidied the site, and to a lesser extent the

retaining-wall-hole-poker machine worked on the

retaining walls. There was no spectacle of dump

trucks removing the site.

• Saturday, 28 December, 2013

Same activity but even less intensity than the

rest of the week.

• Friday, 27 December, 2013

- YouTube Video - Busiest of the Slowest

Baby backhoe spent the early morning digging

down the northwest retaining walls. A white, full-

jumpsuit with orange helmut (regulatory or

management) investigated around site all day; he

can be seen milling down front starting early the

first half of the day and milling to the right side of

of screen the second half of the day. Off camera,

work on the Kanawha gutter continued. Another in

a queue of visually uninteresting workday this

week. (3:02 min)

• Thursday, 26 December, 2013

Visually unappealing day of work on the retaining

walls.

• Wednesday, 25 December, 2013

Merry Christmas! (Bah humbug to the PC Police.)

• Tuesday, 24 December, 2013

Today, everybody danced to one song -- but most

of the day four crew worked on the retaining walls

and work stopped at noon.

• Monday, 23 December, 2013

Three to four crew “puttered” around the site in

the rain or drizzle, working on the retaining wall

and powering up the forklift and baby backhoe to

move supplies.

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