THE PEOPLE MUST HAVE THEIR DAN MILLER

Thursday March 31st – also known as Day 2. Normally our Thursdays are pretty busy with piano lessons and Cub Scouts, but for various reasons, both of those were canceled, leaving me with a full evening to work on my Build and Grow!

First order of business was emptying out the other two boxes and organizing the rest of the parts.

Then, it was time to inventory

We had all our pieces. There were only two moments of confusion

• We couldn’t find our “P23″ pieces.  But when we went through all the pieces, we found them mixed in with the P22 pieces.
• There were two pieces that did not appear to be stamped with a letter/number combination.  Some of them were very faint and hard to see, but there were two that didn’t have any at all.  When we went through all the pieces, we found that we were missing our two P28 pieces, and thankfully the manual gave the dimensions for each piece – our missing pieces were in fact the P28s!

We were making sure to check EACH piece in a pile. So rather than say, just counting our pile of P16s and making sure that we needed 16 and there were 16 in the pile – we checked each piece in the pile to make sure it had the right stamp. Seems like a bit of overkill but that’s how we found our missing P23 pieces.

Then it was time to start! We read, and read, and triple-checked Step 1 – “Lay Tower Legs B1, B2 and B3 on ground, per diagram. Attach H11 Top Floor Rail….”

We actually only made it through Step 1 on Day 2 before dark.

Sorry for the dark picture but I wanted to take a picture of our Day 2 progress. I originally had agreed with a co-worker to come over on Saturday morning to help me with but, having seen where we were at, I decided to reschedule that. I wanted to make sure that I felt a bit more comfortable with how things were going before adding in another person.

Day 2 time: 2 hours
Total time: 3.5 hours
Mistakes made: 0
Steps completed: 1 (of 103)

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