Tim went off to Niagara on the Lake. He took an electric planer and a floor scraper with a long handle on an early bus. Today Pascale and her crew installed lighting fixtures for the Toronto installation. Here they are, with Mike Brisbin on the right.



Again Jaz did ant steps on the website, before being called off outside by JC to transport ice flats and clean up the small tent. It's been like this for a month now. The website (which is Jaz's 'other' job) keeps him busy after hours when everyone else has put in a days' work and can put their feet up over a beer. Then, the pressure is on - to concentrate and do detail design work, and translate that to Flash! Last night he stayed up until 1 PM, and he finished! This morning, he arrives at the tent early to work with Andrea on another pour.

Here is JC's magnificent accomplishment.



This is only half the plates as they stretch out in the huge tent. JC and Mike Brisbin are having a mutual admiration festival. I always see them talking and smiling AFTER something has been resolved (no problem is ever too big) and each speaks well about the other when they're not in each other's presence. I know JC has sent some curve balls at Mike and the Mike I know just goes with the flow.

Finally JC can take a few days off. He's been alternately energetic and edgy, but keeps a lid on the pressure he must be feeling about working so hard almost uninterrupted for a month now. With Gord in Niagara, it's almost been a one man show, (if you don't count crew working with him). He's done a huge job orchestrating the must-do of everything to do with the two tents, the plates . . . He's so capable but he's had enough of us - and we'll miss him at the opening in NOTL.



Gord said almost everything went awry in NOTL. Other than a beautiful blanket of snow; they've been working non-stop 12 hour days. At one point he averted disaster when staff taking the tent down dumped glycol onto the grass(!!); they'd made a mess, slowed everyone down. But the good news is: the print show in The Shaw looks fantastic! And Hayley, the gal who made Gord a grandpa, went for her first walk. Look at those blue California skies!