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One part of our project at the mall is a 120' X 40' mural... with the bottom of the mural 30 feet off the floor. The two stages are each 40 feet long and powered this time!
The heights didn't freak me out at all, and the swing stage feels real safe as the railings are stable and good and high. The railing near the wall is about 18" high so it feels safe on that side too. We were up there yesterday for about 8 1/2 hours with only one quick coffee break. Like a good swing stage should, it swings constantly from our movements back and forth across the wall.
We made great progess, finishing 1/3 of the mural in just two days.
But after I got back to the hotel last night I had the wierdest sensation... it took me a while to figure it out... my legs still wanted to compensate for the swaying of the stage - even though the ground was stable. When I closed my eyes and stood still it affected me the most.
I guess it was sort of like a sailor's sea legs when they first get on land after being at sea a while.
This morning the feeling had passed and today we were busy doing other things so it will be interesting to see if it happens again next time.
-dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8768 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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Same feeling I had after fishing on rough water all day. When I layed down that night, it felt just like I was on a rolling sea. Durn flatlanders just can hack it, eh?
I went on a Caribbean cruise last year over Christmas, and we had rough seas with lots of crosswinds. Even though we were on one HUGE cruiseship (950ft long) that thing was a-rockin'. Walking down the corridors, it was impossible to walk a straight line.. everyone looked like they were drunk and I think only the drunks could walk straight.
Anyway, after being on that boat for a week, when I got back on dry land it literally took a month for the swaying sensation to completely subside. The first week back I (and my other family members who were with me on the boat) actually wavered back and forth while walking. By the second week that was gone but we all still swayed back and forth while standing still! The third week the physical swaying was over with but there were still some feelings of movement.
Finally after the 4th week everything felt normal again.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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A few years ago, some friends and family members rode the Chihuahua al Pacifico railroad from Creel to Los Mochis and back. This is the train that runs by Copper Canyon in Mexico, over 37 bridges and through 89 tunnels.
As we stood around our campfire after having spent the preceeding two days on the train, we noticed our whole group was swaying to some unseen musical rhythyms. This continued for a couple of days.
Some other time, I'll tell about operating the horn at all the crossings as my brother in law drove the train after the engineer got drunk (it was New Year's eve, we changed time zones and hit January 1 twice in an hour--the engineer made the most of it), riding on the cowcatcher for 50 miles, watching a large cow sailing through the air and knocking down trees shortly after we exited the cowcatcher, and getting hit in the head with a falling rock at a tunnel entrance as I rode on the catwalk on the side of the engine. There aren't nearly as many lawyers on the loose in Mexico as there are here in the States.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5114 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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