Realized that this was the perfect day to test the parachute for the balloon. So Oksana came over and we went to the rusty tower over in Liberty to test it. This time there was no wind so it we climbed up to the second platform (higher than that did NOT look safe) and tossed…
We attempted to find a place to toss the capsule off of to test the parachute, but it got so damn windy in the afternoon that it was next to impossible. We climbed an old radio tower by Liberty village, but the wind was going in the wrong direction and would have sailed the thing…
Alicia found someone on Craigslist that was selling their ballpit balls for $25 per garbage bag full. I called her up and offered to take them all if she would deliver them. A bit of easy negotiation and $180 later and we were dumping over 2000 more balls into the ballpit. That puts us well…
Woke up a little hung over (as usual) and got straight into the WNtStG website. Then Alicia suggested that we get some brunch and finish the ballpit. These things simply took higher priority over the website. After stuffing ourselves with food we headed up to Walmart to get the rest of the supplies for the…
I’ve hit some blockers with The UK website today, so I decided that I was time I actually followed through with getting WhatNotToSayToGirls.com up and running. I figure that if I’m constantly in development for the Find A Wingman app, I’m not going to want to work on anything else until like November. Therefore, I…
Today we picked up all the wood we will need to build the ballpit. The wood came to about $200, and we had to lie to the cabby about how long some of the pieces were, but man was this going to be an amazing ballpit. We built the ballpit frame in about an hour.…
Rented a cube van today to pick up my new living room furniture and the balls for the ballpit. The couches were easy, but I had a bit of trouble getting the six giant cubes containing 500 balls each into the van around the two pieces of couch. Thankfully, years of competitive Tetris with my…
Alicia and I went and looked at the ball pit balls that the guy was selling. They took up way more space than I though they would so i think we’re off to a good start with these. I guess I’ll have to rent a truck next week and get the couch and the balls…
Oksy and I met up this afternoon after Salsa to work on the balloon. We made some serious progress and finalized our task list for the launch. Turns out Oksy somehow lost the camera we were going to use so she’s going to buy one of those hi-def video cameras that sky-divers use. We watched…
Oksana told me she knows a guy who is selling 3,000 ball-pit balls for cheap. Apparently he was trying to do a mobile art installation but lost funding from the city (unfortunately not until after the balls had been ordered) so he’s trying to unload them and recover his losses. It’s very rare that you…