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A month or so ago, with construction crews still plugging along, Ted Koerner lost sight of the finish line.

"It's like giving an old electronic a new battery pack. Instead of tossing them out, we are plugging fully-charged batteries from healthy cells into diseased ones."

Rookie mistake number one, though: not bringing industrial strength ear plugs.

In an autobiographical summary of his career, Meyer said his favorite toy design was Lite-Brite, which allows people to create colorful designs by plugging plastic pegs into a grid.

"We've got a little bit of that early rehab to go through to formulate where he may plug into the series, but we expect him to take some part in the series."