Something else is happening in Juneau soon that helped get this thing off dead-center:  the annual convention of the Western Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (aka "WASHTO") begins this weekend and goes through next Thursday.  It will bring hundreds of visitors to Juneau and they have reserved every hotel room in the city.  So it's either they get the job done in the next day or so, or come back either after the event is over or after the 4th.  Or camp out in their offices, or whatever.