small job

today is a soft day, a day for the Dublin Mountains a thousand miles from here.

Take the camera out of the case, that wondrous do it all Nikon wide angle zoom, the normal lens so oversized, and the tiny fisheye.

More is not needed.

Pack it all into the shoulder bag.

Leave the office, lock the door, use the stairs to the first floor, which is also the top floor. The corridor is very long, it goes the whole width of the building, maybe one hundred metres. 

In the last wall cupboard on the left, a metal ladder has been fixed. This is the ladder that leads to the roof.

Climb the ladder up into the attic, there is a low door there that leads out onto the flat part of the roof. The roof is surfaced with tar and small pebbles, in places the rain has made puddles. The wooden construction below the tar is probably starting to give away, this is a flat roof construction from the fifties of the last century. At some stage it will need replacing, but not this year nor the next.

The objective of the exercise is now clearly visible, a clear view over the building site for the new Institute for Physics. They are digging a huge hole for the basement. There is one loader there, and after a short while a huge truck arrives and is loaded up with earth from the hole.

Take wide angle pictures of the whole scene, it is still quite early, the sun has not risen too far.

Take a picture of the new parking garage, a building that took almost four years to build because the specifications were changed many times.

Take a few more pictures, enjoy the fresh air. The level indicator in the camera is not as accurate as would be ideal, but small failings can be corrected later.

Walk back to the access point, that is that small job done.