Well, this weekend went pretty much as planned, except I got the date wrong for the pot luck dinner. Instead we stained the straight side of the desk. One coat down, one to go. Unfortunately its been rainy and I've been busy the reamaining portion of this week to date, and have not gotten to the second coat.

Monday went fairly well, and the new hire is off to a good start. I showed him how to operate the WJ and how to do moisture travellers. I was able to get to break some compressions and slice up another balsa panel by hand.

Tuesday was also good. I showed the new guy how to run compression, apply a strain gauge, soldering leads, and running a gauged compression. I was able to knock off some other ungauged testing in the 22 kip frame.

Today's objective is to knock out making 4"x4" squares to be shipped for fire testing, and keep instructing the new guy on procedures. Let's see how well this goes...