The pier arrived at our friends’ house today.  Seemed to be in decent shape… need to file a little bit of metal to get the wedge to work.  We’ll hopefully do some digging Friday or Saturday for the concrete base.  We also got to see the ISS and Shuttle Atlantis fly by at about 9:20… very nice sky conditions.  The shed, etc. should work decently given the view of the Southern sky we’ll have.