Measurement Issues and Lift Malfunctions

Went up around 3:30. Finished priming, but realized the last coke oven on the right didn’t line up exactly the way I had thought with the bricked up window. The window was a little lower, which threw the perspective off a bit. I spent some time trying to figure out how to make it work, then dropped the chalk line down again to get the lines on the primed surface.

I lost about an hour when I called Mum to tell her All That Glitters was having a sale and when she came up we went over. Mum bought some jewelry (she won’t tell me what) and I found a salt & pepper shaker (for my ever-expanding collection) and a pie pan (because one can never have too many.)

I started chalking in some of the design, but ran into some trouble. First, the lift suddenly stopped working. While I was half-way up the building. Just after Mum picked up a pizza. It appeared that the lift was out of power, which was not ridiculous as it hadn’t been charged in two days (Dad had told me yesterday it didn’t need charged -___-) So he plugged it in, but the thing doesn’t work when it’s charging. I had to be handed up some pizza so I could survive. About fifteen minutes later it had enough power to lower.

I'd figured out what to do about the coke oven/window situation, but unfortunately, I realized something was off about the measurement of the wall and the grid I’d drawn on the design. I had thought the high part of the wall on the right was 25 ft high and the lower part 20ft, making the difference 5 ft. But it’s realy 55 inches. I didn’t realize this until George Washington looked like an egg head. I had primed it following that grid, so I’ll need to fix that area. I ran out of pink chalk (I was using blue for the horizontal grid lines and didn’t want to draw the design in the same color) got stuck another time almost at the roof, and then decided to call it a night around 9:00 when it was getting dark. Dad had to keep plugging in the lift when I wasn’t moving so it would charge and I’d have to yell down to unplug it when I needed to move. I told him to charge it even though I won’t be home to work on it until next week. That way it will be fully charged when I get back.

To do: make a list of the colors of paint we'll need so we can place the order.
Hours worked: 5
Total hours to date: 12
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