More construction updates (now bulleted for easy reference!)

[muckefuck]

• The road out back has been asphalted and is now being steamrolled flat. Bear factor: One portly Hispanic daddy driver with curly hair, glasses, and a moustache and one tall, sandy-haired, moustachioed overseer-type.
• Another huge clump of junipers back of the building has been hacked out and uprooted. Fuck you, rodents and birds! Find your shelter elsewhere! Bear factor: None. Another reason why I hate groundskeeping projects.
• Another brief blackout. Bear factor: The BIT came by to apologise again, assuring us this was the "last one today". You know, if each one comes with a visit from him, then they're almost worth it.
• The Yellow Cap Daddy is one of the men rewiring the connexions to the electrical closet in the Marking Room. I am so doomed! That is to say, I've just recalled a lot of very important work that must be done in the Marking Room as soon as possible. Bear factor: [faints]