Senior Project May 10

 The second day of senior projects. Today went pretty well.  I actually got started on my senior project.  In order to make up for lost time, I decided to get to work around 8 am. I spent the 4 hours cleaning out my garage since this will be the place I will be working in for the rest of the senior project. After cleaning up the garage I set up my table and laid plastic on the floor to protect the concrete from any glue.  When that was all done, I at last opened up the surfboard kit.  Two days into the senior project and I'm just opening the box.  All the content inside was what I was expecting, however, I didn't expect the building manual to be so long. I didn't have much time to look everything over before having to go to baseball practice.








Hour:5

Total hours: 5

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