After a month of waiting, the granite ballast finally went in today!
A crew of five spent the day with shovels and wheelbarrows putting
down the ballast between the wooden ties and
levelling the backyard dirt around it. The kids and I got home just
as they were finishing. A supervisor is out there
now making things pretty. John is up at the
JavaOne Conference
in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, so we will have to wait for
tonight for him to see it.
When I called John to tell him about the ballast finally going
in, he had to make our conversation short. The
JMRI open
source model railroad interface software he has been working on
just won the
Duke’s Choice Award in the “Java Everywhere” category.
John had to go up to the Moscone stage with team leader
Bob Jacobsen. As the web page says, Duke’s Choice “awards spotlight
some of the most clever, practical, and inspirational Java technology
applications on the planet.”
It has been an exciting and busy day.
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