Was up at 0700, an hour later than normal, and on the road to the station again. If it’s electrical on this pipeline, it’s mine, so I needed to make the trip. Forty-five minutes later I”m at the station.

Yeas, indeed, a truckload of parts came in. It looks like they loaded up just about everything they ahd and sent it to us. However, when we got a few of the boxes open, we noticed that some parts were missing, some support shelves to replace those that got smudged and scorched in the blast when those big transistors failed.

We had a few spares from the last blow-up. Sad, isn’t it, that we have had previous blow-ups from which we’ve kept parts? They’re not EXACTLY the same, but close enough it the manufacturer can’t get us the right ones. More phone calls were made and more pictures emailed, but I foolishly thought that the pictures we’ve ALREADY sent showed that damage well enough. Silly me!

Anyway, the last word I got was that the proper replacements will get to the airport in HOUSTON tomorrow at 3 PM and then we’ll have a hot-shot service pick them up and deliver them to us in the Louisiana piny woods.

There’s and old engineering adage that says: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick any two. Looks like our project managers went with fast and cheap, and we’re going to have to suffer.

Anyhow, made it home and threw together something with sausage, tomatoes, garbanzo beans, onions and garlic and served it over rice. Not bad.