Where in the heck did I leave off the last time I put in some build time on the RV?  I am almost embarrassed at my lack of progress on the project in the last 9 months or so.  Many builders I was keeping up with, have smoked me and are well into their fuselage and I am still stuck on my wings.

Having a 3-day weekend this weekend, I decided that I needed to get the "shop" organized and get back to the business of building that RV.  Since the time I last was serious on building, my work bench has collected a small pile parts that needed to be organized.

Late last Fall, Tami got me a cheap pleather rocker chair and foot rest.  I had complained about how uncomfortable my plastic chair was to sit on when eating dinner or studying RV prints in the garage.  Like a good woman, she went out and bought me some cheap furniture that was actually comfortable.  Lets review my garage setup here and figure out why I am not making very good progress on the project:

• Satellite TV, with TIVO and a DVD Player.
• Garage is heated and air conditioned.
• Comfortable rocker with foot rest
• Laptop computer with wireless high speed internet access.
• Wife / waitress who delivers dinner to the garage so I don't have to stop working on her plane.

Yeah right, with all these amenities, I will be lucky to get any building done. With a little discipline tonight maybe I get at least get that workbench cleared off.

While contemplating my task tonight sitting in my comfortable, imitation leather chair, I decided to treat myself to some premium root beer Tami had in the fridge. 

When we went to Osh in 2003 for our first time, we made last minute reservations so the closest we could get to the air show was Stevens Point, Wisconsin.  Stevens Point is about 70 miles west of OshKosh so was a little bit of a drive each day.  Anyway, we had went out to dinner one night and the waitress recommended that we try Point Root Beer.  It was bottled by one of their local breweries.  Yes, I know this is just root beer, but Point Brewery actually brews beer as their main product.  However, Point Brewery also bottles Point Premium Root Beer for those of us not drinking alcohol.  Now, I am no root beer connoisseur, but this stuff is great.  The problem with it is that  you can only buy it in Wisconsin (or the internet if you want to pay $17.00 / 12-pack).  Tami recently had a "girls weekend" (you know, the weekend retreat where a bunch of girl friends get together and husbands are not allowed.  They mainly sit around in an hotel and make fun of the "sugar daddies"), and she brought me back a case of root beer.

If you are interested in paying big bucks to have this stuff shipped to ya, click on the link below.  I like it, but even I haven't put down the mastercard to have it shipped to me.  If you go to Osh, and you like Root Beer, look for it in restaurants, or the local grocery store.

Point Brewery

Now, I actually worked pretty steady tonight (5+ hrs) on sorting electrical lugs, stainless steel hardware, and an assortment of other parts that were piled on my workbench.  Even after the 5 hrs of sorting and labeling, you would be hard pressed to see the difference between the before shot of the work bench at the top of the page.   I am going to have to pick up the pace a little bit !!!!!!!!