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Taipei: The End

January 5th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Grucci

With continuous night shifts and working like crazy right up to showtime, here is what we accomplished when the stroke of midnight finally tolled on Jan 1st, 2011: This isn’t the best-quality video, but it shows at the start a bit of the craziness over at the Dajia site with the racetrack of bursts running […]

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Taipei Days Twelve and Thirteen

December 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Grucci

The 28th was the first day up on 101 where the visibility was greater than 10 miles. Wow! It feels like you can see the whole country, and this is only the 66th floor! I’m on a 6-hour work break right now so I can rest up to return to 101 and work the night […]

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Taipei Days Ten and Eleven

December 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Grucci

Me on the 82nd floor of Taipei 101 – slightly better weather today! (12/26) We’re in the shit now, boy I tell ya! It’s unfortunate, but various delays and problems keep cropping up that force us to curse whatever fireworks god has a decided to take a dump on us for this show. Despite the […]

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Taipei Day Nine

December 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Grucci

Translators Kris and Orophin helping me spread the holiday cheer. It was another 6:45am morning today, the only difference was that here in Taiwan it was already Christmas Day!! So I was finally able to unpack my Santa hat from the suitcase and plop it on my head. Downstairs in the lobby on the way […]

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Taipei Day Eight

December 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Grucci

The day started off bright, sunny and clear – visibility wise at least. You usually can’t see Taipei 101 and the mountains so well this early in the day Managed to roll out of bed at 6:45 today, so was able to do a quick check on the computer and grab a more substantial breakfast […]

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Taipei Day Seven

December 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Grucci

The lovely “green tea green” (as Ian puts it) safety vests they have outfitted us to wear. When did orange go out of style?? Holy crap I’ve been in Taipei a week already? Time just seems to be flying right on by. After last night’s shenanigans, I don’t even remember hitting the snooze on my […]

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Taipei Day Six

December 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Grucci

Morning mist shrouds Taipei 101 as seen from the Dajia site. It cleared and was around 70F again today Despite how great things are going here in Taiwan overall, there is one thing that continues to worry me – weather. It’s been way too nice around here for my liking. It will have to get […]

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Taipei Day Five

December 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Grucci

Another silly translation Today was another halfer – that is to say half was spent at the 101 building and the other half at the Dajia site along the river. We cabbed it over to Taipei 101 in the morning after breakfast and split into two groups – half of us ran the rest of […]

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Taipei Day Four

December 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Grucci

Some drummers get ready to welcome some VIPs to Taipei 101 this morning – we didn’t stick around to see who they were though Today was the first day I spent completely over at Taipei 101, although it was the less-glamorous side of pyro work that had us climbing through the bowels of the building […]

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Taipei Day Three

December 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Grucci

My newest ID badge, this one from Big Show, to get me into Taipei 101 So today was another mish-mosh of activities. Breakfast was, as usual, at 6am although realistically most people don’t show up until closer to 7. At 7:30 we all piled into the big bus and headed down to the river site. […]

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