When I say I am going to register serialinjury dot com, it's not entirely because I'm trying to be cute. It's because it keeps -bleep-ing happening! And the reason for my livid-ness is that the recent batch are completely baffling. Low-Twist-blankety-stance last night while running conditioning, just a normal, everyday, run of the mill low twist stance, and a muscle on outside of my right calf goes into bleep-fits, and decies to completely seize up, which has me hobbling today. I didn't even do anything! Dr Fuji's out of town, so I may try to see Dr Wong, even though it's not really his specialty but it kills me to walk and bleep-dammit, I want to work on Koy Moon a lot tommorow!
At least Iron Palm before class felt blanking amazing, it was a most blissful series of strikes.
Crisis is the word du jour at work. It would appear the structural engineer on this one project, well, quite frankly, blanked-up and placed a column in the wrong place. Now that the foundation has been poured, we can't move it. The radiused beams that are to rest on these columns and support beam now cannot work at the desired readius, as the centroids do not line up. So we have to make a muckery of the whole thing to get it to work. Basically, we were screwed no matter what we did, it was a matter of chosing how we wanted to be screwed. Radius changed, panel has to be modified (and they've already done the entire formwork for the panel too, that'll be fun to re-do), work points moved, gah. Much to fix. Dimtwit!
Edit: Now with photo.
Posted by kannik at July 30, 2004 09:35 AM in Daily | TrackBackAnnoying about the column thing eh?!
On my school I cannot believe how many "simple" things were missed or just done without any thought...in fact it had to be with even less than thought or purposely done wrong, if you get my point.
One of the funniest things was the mechanical/plumber decided that it would look great to have an 8" steel water line and another 4" line running under the joists about 9' off the ground in the Library. Yes the library is open to structure and the guy had 4' deep joists he was supposed to run them through. The MORON actually put bends in the lines in the rooms bordering the library to bring the line down so that he could run it under the joists in the Library.
He actually did not want to bother trying to feed the line through the joists.
Needless to say, you’ve got yourself a beautiful open space with curtain wall system on the outside wall….and all you can see when you walk into the room is 2 large UGLY water lines running across the room right in your line of sight.
His answer when we told him to move it..
“I think it looks great�
No crap!
Bone-Head
Anyways, it took about 3 weeks to FORCE him to move it…a lot of kicking and screaming later it was moved to where it was supposed to be.
Yes, we all accept “stupid� errors on our projects…they happen ALL the time, but things like that you go-to-war over :)
Heh, yeah. There's 'go with the flow' errors, there's 'no way in hell, fix that!' errors, then there's 'oh man we're screwed... how can we screw ourselves the least' type errors :P
I'd feel better if the twit acknowledged it was his error, though.
Kannik
Posted by: Kannik at August 5, 2004 12:44 PM