What follows is a record of our progress building this thing. I will use this meager platform to offer only one bit of advice... if you decide to build a building yourself, for the love of everything holy, USE PRE-ENGINEERED TRUSSES. They are not fun to design and build, and even after you do so you'll find out how much the tiny mistakes you make (and you WILL make them) add up to huge problems when you try to install them.
That is all. Now let's roll that beautiful bean footage...
