Well…finally…my kitchen is done…just got the range hood and installed it and that was the last piece of the puzzle….man, two months of work to take it from the gross, dirty thing it was to a clean, usable kitchen that I am not ashamed of anymore…and I know I shouldn’t be ashamed since I didn’t let it get to the state it was in when I bought this place but taking a year to get to working on it and finishing it is on me….it does feel good to have a room I can be proud of and now I know my color scheme of using the grey for the walls and white for the trim was the right one…it just looks so clean and i hope that the next darker shade of grey will look good in the dining room…not sure what color I’m going to use in the bathroom yet but I wonder if white walls with grey trim would look cool? It would sure brighten it up in there replacing the dark blue that is in there now but we’ll see…now I am taking a week off to just live for a bit and heal my aches and pains…now have I earned a cocktail? Yeah, probably not but it would be nice to do a Star Trek night with the latest season of “Picard” starting today and there is an episode of “Discovery” to watch too…I need some rest….
Monthly Archives: March 2022
I have a functioning kitchen again…
Well…I was going to take the day off to heal up some but, you know me, if there is work to be done, I need to do it so I got to work today cleaning up the shelf that I keep the appliances on and moved it back into the kitchen where it belongs…and that meant cleaning all of the appliances, too and that took a couple of hours…but the result is a fully functioning kitchen again with everything where it’s supposed to be…now, if they would just deliver my damn range hood, I could complete everything and then justify taking a few days off to heal without having to fight my finely honed sense of guilt…I am already planning to redo the masking and trim painting after I give it a few weeks to cure but that is something that has no urgency to me right now….I am going to get out and shovel the dirt off my lawn tomorrow and put it right in the street where it belongs and let the city deal with it as they should have when they dug up my street….and there is a much bigger pile than I thought with it being covered in snow all winter so it may take a couple of hours to get all of it off and get the lawn raked so it doesn’t die….but I do need to be aware of how badly my hands hurt so I don’t aggravate them…oh, well…I’ll stop bitching now….
Idiot boy is going to be indicted…
Well…with the latest court filings by the Jan 6th committee, the only conclusion that can be drawn is idiot boy an his minions are going to be indicted sometime in the future….in a 61 page filing, the committees lawyers have told the court they have enough evidence to show that trump and his cronies tried to interfere with government functions and tried to overthrow the election…and that is nothing less than what one of the oathkeepers did who just pleaded guilty to seditious insurrection…and that is just one of the charges that trump is on the hook for…yeah, I know…I’ve been saying that idiot boy is going to be indicted for a long time now but if it doesn’t happen after this, Merrick Garland has to be fired and needs to take his ‘institutionalist” views back to the 19th century where they belong…things have changed and these serious threats to our country need to be dealt with now…not some time in the future…and there was enough evidence in the Mueller report to charge the idiot with but it just sits there and nothing is done…what the hell is more important than protecting our democracy? I know I’ve said that before but damn, now’s the time to get off the damn fence before it’s too late…geez…
Forgot to talk about the SOTU…
Well…I have been digesting the SOTU that Biden gave Tuesday night and I was not surprised at all…the right wing propaganda that has been pushing the lie that Joe is too old and senile to even walk was exploded as he delivered a Joe speech…lots of truth and empathy and guess what you didn’t see…yep, attacking his “enemies” and bragging that he was able to put his shoes on that morning that you got from TFG…and that was a refreshing thing to hear…policy that will help the country and getting his agenda out on the floor so he can point to it as he succeeds getting some of it passed…now, I’m enough or a realist to know that the repub attacks and obstructionism will continue, but to paint Joe with being naive is just wrong, he still wants to try to find some reasonable people on the other side of the isle but I know he is experienced enough to know that is probably not going to happen…but being a good guy, he has to try…overall, I would rate it a great speech but that is not a surprise anymore…Joe has shown that he is up to it and his passion for what he does always comes through…good job….
March 3rd
Well…that was a pretty normal night with getting up a little after 6 but it’s taken me almost a half hour to get to the coffee and that means it will take a while for it to work…had some strange dreams last night that had a weird perspective…I was an observer instead of being part of it…more like watching a movie than anything else and I wonder why that would be? I was really sore after the painting yesterday and that continues today but I’m sure that will get better after I rest everything today…I did remember something about latex paint that had escaped me when I was trying to figure out why the painter’s tape pulled the paint off the trim…it takes the paint 2-4 weeks to cure before you should essentially do anything to it like cleaning, etc…..and I only had two days before I taped it so it’s not the paint, it’s my impatience that made the paint peel…but there is no way I was waiting that long to get to the rest of the painting in the kitchen….but, I will wait to replace the power feed for the range hood since it needs to be hot glued into the corner and it will just peel the paint off….damn, it looks like we get two days of warm weather and then back into the 30′s for highs for the rest of the month and that sucks…but I am going to try to get outside on the bike Sat and Sun if the wind cooperates but it looks like 15-20mph and that is too much…so I’ll be on the indoor bike for the rest of the month…I did get to 400 miles the other day but won’t make it to the 600 I planned and that is okay…still a good start to the year….not much to do today…only need to clean up the shelf that holds the kitchen appliances and get it back in the kitchen…and install the range hood if it comes today…oh, no cocktails last night…it seems to be easier to not have them than it is to have them…and I think that is a good thing…more later….
Have I earned a cocktail or two?
Well…damn, I am sore after working on the kitchen and getting so close to finishing it…I even went back to repaint the trim pieces that the tape had pulled the paint from and then put all of the new outlet plates on and they look pretty cool in shiny black…and I made sure all of the switches and outlets were straight since they were so crooked before they looked like hell…and all that work leads me to the question of the day: have I earned a cocktail or two? It’s been almost two months of being good and I really like that but I feel like I can use a reward for the two months of work that I did on the kitchen…going from the gross, dirty mess that it was to the clean, semi-modern look that it has now…I know there are lots of detractors who deride any use of greys since they are pretty overdone and now out of style according to them but I like the way it looks and that is the only thing that counts…and the new black range hood is supposed to be here tomorrow….yeah, right…and that will finish what I’m going to do to the kitchen…for now…so, do I or don’t I? Hmmmm….I guess we’ll see later…maybe just one with Star Trek? I do know that I have gone out to the kitchen to just look at it a couple of times….and even with the crazy crooked cut lines, I can live with it….
Chelsea is for sale…
Well…okay folks, this one is about soccer so you may want to skip it unless you’ve found new interest in the English football game by watching Ted Lasso…so, it looks like Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch is going to sell the Chelsea football club and to hear him say it, it is all about his love for the club and English football…I guess the trial balloons about putting the club in trust crashed as the probability of sanctions against him grow by the day and that would mean that he would lose the club and any other assets he has in England….and that includes a couple of huge estates and the normal huge yacht that all of the oligarchs have….now, I will say that he has said the proceeds from the club will be donated to the victims of the Ukraine invasion but who is going to trust him when he has not come out against Putin since most of his cash is from being in the inner circle of Russian business and you don’t get to be a Russian billionaire without Putin approving it and and having a continuing relationship with him….so, let’s take all of this supposed concern for the Ukrainians with a supertanker sized grain of salt…I think he is just trying to avoid the sanctions that are coming and is scrambling to keep some cash when they hit….geez….
Got the kitchen painted…
Well…damn, this was a long time coming..I finally have the walls painted in the kitchen…2 coats and they look pretty good..I like the color and how it looks but there is not a straight line in any corner and that kind of looks like hell but there is nothing I can do about that without chopping out every corner and replastering it and that just isn’t going to happen….and the painter’s tape pulled off a lot of the white on the trim so I’ll need to touch that stuff up but that is going to wait a while until the pain is out of my hands and it really isn’t a big job so I can do that as time goes on…the rest of the house isn’t going to have that problem with much less masking that has to be done…so, I’m done for the day…5 hours is enough for one day….and I haven’t had lunch yet so I guess I’ll go with one meal today since I want to read the news first and that will take an hour or so…the kitchen does look completely different and I have to stop being my own harshest critic…I think I did the best that could be done without tearing out walls and starting from scratch….and over time I’ll stop noticing the flaws and just enjoy my kitchen again…might take a while….more later….
March 2nd
Well…that was okay…slept okay but most of the night it was on my right shoulder and it hurts a bit and is pretty stiff and that won’t help with the painting today…but I can play through that to get the kitchen finished by the end of the week…and that is even with repainting the trim that I’ll be pulling the paint off when I remove the painters tape…and the range hood is going to be here today so I can put that up either tomorrow or Friday and I think it the holes for the screws holding the old one up will fit the new one since it is the same size from the same company…and I finally got the old vent blocked off since this one is unvented and doesn’t need it….and that stops the cold air from flooding into the kitchen like it was…and I really don’t cook enough on the stovetop to need a vented one….and in the year I’ve been here, I only used the old one once or twice and that was just to use the light….I am going to have to get out to shovel the concrete and dirt the city left on the front of my lawn when they dug up the street for water to the new houses across the street…don’t want it to kill my lawn that I worked so hard on last summer….and that is going to be a pain in the butt but it will be warm enough to do that this weekend…it is going to be over 50 sat but then right back to highs in the 30′s for the rest of the week…where the hell is March and the warmer weather? Not much to do today…need to do the grocery run this morning after the bike ride and then the rest of the day will be painting and cleaning up…I really can’t wait to see what it looks like after all of the work to get to this point…and I am looking forward to taking another week off to let my body heal up again after it’s done…more later….
Russian bots are dead….
Well…I haven’t seen much of this reported other than in small comments about the facets of the Russian attack on the Ukraine but it does bleed over into what they are still doing to attack the US and sow discord while trying to exploit the natural divisions in our society. Once the attack on Ukraine started, one of the things that happened was the shut down of access to twitter and other social media sites in the US, and…surprise surprise…once that happened, the comments, likes, and retweets that were supposed to be coming from the US criticizing Biden and stirring up hate plummeted…to the point of disappearing completely…so gee, I wonder where those comments were coming from? Could it be….Russia? This is all of Russia’s plan to use Facebook, Twitter, and every other social media to attack the US and the owners of this media sit on their hands and do nothing about it…especially when they get rich from the ads that come with it…so now, we know that the dems want to do something about it by holding these folks accountable…but not a damn word from the repubs since we all know they benefit from the chaos and hate these bots foster by the dupes giving them money and the repubs amplifying the Russian propaganda that these bots swamp our society with. So, when you see comments supporting this right wing crap, just understand it’s not real people supporting them…it’s the Russian bots amplifying these unpopular ideas….I wonder what the repubs will do now with them being silenced? They sure won’t get any more bot “likes” to their bullshit….geez….