{"id":2252,"date":"2007-07-07T09:38:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T13:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2007-07-09T06:55:46","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T10:55:46","slug":"the-eye-of-god-part-3-of-3-finis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/07\/07\/the-eye-of-god-part-3-of-3-finis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eye of God  (part 3 of 3 &#8211; finis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/coj3_enlarged.jpg\" title=\"coj3_enlarged.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/coj3_enlarged.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"coj3_enlarged.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The captain stood there with his arms crossed looking upwards.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look safe.  I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  His men silently nodded knowing assent;  my confident explanations fell on deaf ears.  We said a few more words, but I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t inherently their problem &#8212; there was no fire, and slowly they drifted away, back to their waiting trucks, another alarm call resolved with no risk to life or limb.  Not yet, anyway &#8212; and my stupidity wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to happen on their watch.<\/p>\n<p>After they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d left, my clients all stared at me questioningly.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Are you sure about this?  This isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worth anyone getting hurt.  Maybe we should try something else \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nope,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure.  Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s see how this lighting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to work.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  And rung by rung I started up.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m writing this, so I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t die, and no, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t set off the beam detector again \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I think we called the insurance company and got them to authorize us to shut if off for the duration of our mockup, I forget.  But I did miscalculate a couple of things &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At that steep angle, and with my notable weight inducing the inevitable curve to the ladder, by about 30\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 up it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s becoming tangent to the wall.  Barely enough room to get my fingers around the rungs, and oh-so-little purchase for my toes.  Standing tippy-toed in size 13\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, in other words.  Oh, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hot.  Heat rises, and 40\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in the air I was into a whole other climate zone.  So there I am having a high-dive moment, my clients now toy figures below me, dripping sweat, holding a 10\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pole with a small but not weightless light on it as steadily as I can while holding on with one hand to a ladder effectively applied to the wall.  On tippy-toes.  Shouting back and forth to people far below who want to evaluate the effect from multiple positions, having me aim at various locations, each change requiring lowering the pole, adjusting the light, raising it again &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>It worked, the lighting concept was a good idea, I survived.  But the firefighters \u00e2\u20ac\u201c duh \u00e2\u20ac\u201c were right.  Just not about the aspect they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d identified.  Just in general, it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t safe.  But I was never afraid, exactly.  Wearily anxious towards the end, maybe, but after all &#8212; and especially given where we were &#8212; we already knew the eyes of god were upon us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The captain stood there with his arms crossed looking upwards. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look safe. I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d His men silently nodded knowing assent; my confident explanations fell on deaf ears. We said a few more words, but I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t inherently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/07\/07\/the-eye-of-god-part-3-of-3-finis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}