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Got a lot done today. We left for Jordan's house at 8 and I spent my day working there while Sam and Jackson went to run errands with Jordan, returning reels and going to Home Depot and Costco. I started my day cutting a bunch of metal pipes in half, making them small enough to fit in a large trash can to be thrown into the dump truck. I used an electric circular saw, and it was cool cutting through metal with tons of sparks flying (I was properly equipped with safety gear). I then took old foam pads from Jordan's boat, and used a box cutter to take off the covering and rip the foam off the plywood boards, which Jordan wanted to salvage, I believe to design new pads. All of that took me about an hour and a half, and afterwards I used a fiberglass spray and a rough sponge to scrub a lot of rust off of certain areas inside the boat. Once I washed the boat down after that, the rest of the guys were back and we got to work taking down a rotten tree in Jordan's front yard. He us...
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