Day 12

What lovely weather! Actually it was more interesting, than sarcastically awful. It went back and forth between downpour and sunny.

Today I was tasked with making sheets. Unlike previous days, my work was geared towards a useable product. First I printed out some sheets Nathan had already finished. Using the gargantuan printer named Walt, I printed out a few large pages of important documents. These documents were anything from building schematics, to spreadsheets of doors.

You would think printing would be mindless, but there was a fair amount of detail in the work. For starters, it's not just your home printer. There are a few settings you have to adjust to ensure the scale of the items being printed doesn't change. One time I forgot to orient the picture correctly, and that wasted a fair amount of paper. Also, the pages are put together in a makeshift book. So I had to trim them all to the same size. This took a few tries to perfect.

After I finished printing and trimming all the sheets for Nathan, it was my task to make my own sheet. I started by scanning several pages that contained wall detail sketches. These drawings detailed the masonry of each wall type. Using Vector Works, I put all the scans in one file and arranged them on a sheet. Nathan already had the titling and the bordering down, but I had to trim and organize the sketches. Eventually I had semi-finished sheet, ready for use.

On another note, Wednesday was "Man's Lunch". A lot of the guys from the office took me to Ringlers McMenamins. At the restaurant I met Brent who used to work at the Portland office, but now he works in New York. It was a nice break from the busy work of architecture.

The End 

-Jesse

"With all their lions, with all their might and all their thirst" -Passion Pit