Well…darn, I wonder why I don’t sleep well on the days where I work my butt off? Tossed and turned all night last night and feel worn out today but part of that may be only having a square of lasagna to eat all day….when I don’t get to eat til after 2 in the afternoon, it is too hard to try to force a second meal in before the end of the day so I normally don’t…and I didn’t ride the bike in or out yesterday so I shouldn’t have eaten more anyway…will do better today with the big ham in the fridge and not a lot do today…probably should clean the closet in the bedroom I’m working on since it is still full of dust from the repairs in there and I need to paint it to get rid of the ugly blue…going to paint it the same color as the kitchen and bathroom since I have 2/3rds of a gallon of that paint left and have no plans to use that color again….I wonder if my hands feel like they would from a bare knuckle fight? They are so stiff, cut up, and sore that I know they should be rested today but I still have work to do so that probably won’t happen….thinking of going out to Menards to get my gate repair parts so I can do that next week and check out the bricks I need to make a border around the garden this morning….I need 42 of them and I think I’ll make it red with some grey accents like I did with the trash bin landing pad….and that will be about 150 pounds in the back of the Miata and that is about the load limit for it….not much to do today…need to get on the bike here in a minute to get a ride in and I do have the blinds for the bathroom I can install today….and I need to order blinds for the bedroom window so I can install them as soon as I get that painted and take the newspaper down….damn, this became another house one and I didn’t want to do that…oh, well….more later….
Monthly Archives: April 2022
Bathroom is done!
Well…damn, finally have the bathroom painted and it is such a relief to have it done…but the damn tape peeled off some of the paint from the trim and that is pissing me off..it even pulled paint off some trim that had the old paint on it that has been there for 20 years so I guess letting it cure wasn’t enough…I’m now thinking that it is the cheap HF tape I’ve been using so before I do the bedroom, I’m going to spend the big bucks on 3m tape to see if that is better…it costs about twice as much but if it will do the job without making more work for me, the cost will be worth it…damaged both index fingers today cleaning up the light that goes over the sink on the sharp edges on the back of it…it is just a cheap stamped steel that is razor sharp and rubbing on it to get the paint off that was the last paint job did a number on my fingers…so now I have bandages on both hands and my right thumb has told me enough so I’m glad I have a couple of weeks until I need to paint again…the grey paint looks pretty cool in the bathroom and much more modern than the weird blue they had in there…and the white baseboards and trim add a nice accent to it…but, I am beat and still drinking coffee at 2:30 in the afternoon…and still haven’t eaten anything yet today but I just want to relax for a while and read some news before I get back to work and re-hang the lights and mirror in the bathroom….I guess I could let that stuff wait til tomorrow or much later today…the paint still needs to dry and I don’t want to push it…owww….
April 14th
Well…darn, up at 5:14 this morning…oh, do you wonder how I know exactly what time it is when I get up? Don’t have a clock in my bedroom…at least one that has the correct time, but I do have my phone in the drawer of the small table that is next to my bed and I can just roll over and reach it…I used to be able to tell what time it was innately without a clock and it was always fun to guess and then check the time with a clock…and I did that this morning and only missed it by about 8 minutes…yeah, I know I’m weird…but I did sleep okay and feel okay today but I think I’m skipping the indoor bike ride…my legs are really sore from riding hard outside yesterday and I think they need a rest today with too much wind and cold to go out…and that’s okay since I need to go out and get paint and work on the bathroom anyway…so that leaves me with a little time to do this and have some unrushed coffee this morning and I sure do like it….should be able to get all of the prep work done on the bathroom today and then get it painted tomorrow but it is going to be a pain to paint with how small and tight it is…and then I need to get some garden soil to get my tomatoes started from the seeds I have left over from last year but that may not happen til next week…normally, you can’t plant outside until late May to avoid any remaining frost so I don’t need to rush…it is going to be nice to take the weekend off this week and just fool around on some small stuff around here…and after the last of the dust today, the kitchen and dining room will need to be scrubbed to get it back to acceptable clean….then no more dust! Damn, I’m tired of having everything coated…okay..there will be some dust when I start on the baseboards and window in the dining room over the summer…not much to do today…just out for the paint and then the bathroom work…I may get on the inside bike later today but I’m not going to be anal about it….the bathroom will be enough work for the day….more later…
A busy but good day…
Well…cripes, I may be getting used to these busy days…just sat down for the first time at around 4 and 48 minutes later, I’m ready to find something else to do…got the grocery run in and got my big ham and then hit aldi’s, depot, and the dollar store to get everything I needed for today and found that I didn’t need to stop at depot since all I needed was a drop cloth and the dollar store had them for 1.25 which is half price of depot so I guess I’ll be getting them there from now on…and I got new led bulbs for the fixture in the bedroom, too…then, when I got back here, I got right at painting the ceiling in the bedroom and got two coats on by 11:30 and then cooked the big ham and the rest of the food to go with it and had a huge lunch…so only one meal today I am still so full….the ceiling came out better than I had any reason to expect but it’s just the paint and not me…although I did get lots of painting practice on my son’s house so it’s pretty easy to do it right….and after the paint dried, I hung the fixture up and put the glass shade on it and it looks pretty cool with the shiny copper finish…after that, I decided to do the last repair on the wall above the sink in the bathroom so I can sand it all out tomorrow and get everything masked off so I can paint Friday…need to go out for paint tomorrow….again…but I should be able to finish the bathroom in a couple of hours…and then I am taking the weekend off to get ready to start on the yard as I wait the two weeks for the paint in the bedroom to cure….and I need to order the blinds for the window in there so I can hang them as soon as I get it painted…break time…oh, and after I repaired the wall in the bathroom, I had a two hour window of no rain so I got on the bike and did 15 miles…almost forgot about that….busy day…
Do you need a better reason?
Well…please tell me you’ve been following the news about the criminal Rick Scott, you know the one, whose company paid a 200 million dollar fine for defrauding Medicare? The one who is now a senator from Florida? He said the quiet thing out loud last week when he put out a repub economic plan that they are going to pass if they take control of the congress in 2022…the highlights are raising taxes on 100 million middle class Americans…so if you make 50K a year, your taxes are going up by almost 5K a year…and if you’re one of the rich, you get a tax cut that will be paid for by the middle class….and if that’s not bad enough, his plan eliminates SS and Medicare in 5 years…leaving everyone who needs it to stay alive to fend for themselves or go back to work at 80 years old…essentially saying if you weren’t able to grift the billions he did, it’s just too damn bad and you can just lose everything and starve….this is what the repubs have always wanted…every person for themselves and the hundreds of thousands you paid into SS is just gone…poof…so they can give that money to the rich since they need it so badly…look, do you need a better reason to vote against every damn repub in the fall? We’ve paid our way our entire lives but that isn’t enough for these pricks…unless people are poor and dependent on them to throw them a few scraps, the repubs won’t be happy….we need to stop them…there is no better reason to crawl over broken glass to vote these assholes out…or they are going to steal what you worked your entire life for….just damn vote…geez…
Got the painting done…
Well….got the painting done in the bedroom! The white anyway….and now comes the two week wait for the paint to cure so I can mask it off for the grey for the walls…I am really looking forward to see how the bit darker grey is going to look in there…should be pretty cool…I hope….I am really happy how the trim and ceiling came out even with the 82 year old plaster….and my patches on the ceiling are so much better than the ones that were in there that I can live with them…and I’ll keep chanting French Chateau every time I notice how flawed they are…but they are good enough for me and look so much better than they did…like I almost knew what I was doing…almost….can’t wait to see how the wall patches look after painting and then start to gradually move my stuff in there…not sure how I’m going to set it up yet but I have options I don’t have in the small bedroom…..I think the echo in there is going to be a little weird but putting the bed and dresser in there will probably help with that….man, I never thought I’d get to this point with it when I was deep into it…glad I decided that I had done enough work in there and didn’t keep trying to make it better…cripes I’d still be working on it next year….
April 13th
Well…boy, had some weird dreams last night that included boats, fireworks, and weird house stuff and that was pretty cool…and I slept four straight hours before I woke up the first time…and then was able to get back to sleep for 3 more and I’ll take that any day….with it being over 60 outside right now, it only makes it harder to know that the temps are going to crash for the rest of the month starting Sat…I mean, 39 degrees for a high in the end of April? I really like being able to get outside to ride and being able to do that make my mornings much more relaxed since I don’t have to rush to get on the indoor bike to start the day….oh, well….I can’t wait to feel my hands healed up after I’m done working on this place for the summer…but I still have outdoor work to do that will probably hurt them some more but I won’t be abusing them every day and I hope that is enough…but I am concerned that the damage I’ve done is going to be permanent and I’ll hurt the rest of my life….already have enough of those pains and don’t need to add more…I did get started cleaning up the dust in this place yesterday but I’m not sure I should have with still having sanding of filler in the bathroom…need to get the paint for that tomorrow so I can get started painting over the weekend…and since I have to wait to paint the walls in the bedroom until the white paint cures, that will give me time to get on the yard and get the front gate repaired…..not much to do today…another 4 store grocery/errand run this morning and it’s warm enough to put the top down on the car but the sporadic rain will probably keep it up….need to get a big ham this morning and that will keep me eating for a week or so but that means I’ll have to cook between coats of paint on the bedroom ceiling…and will probably get on the downstairs bike later….we’ll see…more later….
Salvaged the light…
Well…as I said before, I was going to try to salvage the overhead light to try to keep my costs down since I’m spending hundreds of bucks a month just getting the supplies I need to keep going forward here…so, I took the fixture down and it wasn’t plaster but 4 coats of paint on it and I don’t understand why they didn’t just unscrew the caps and drop it down so they wouldn’t get paint on it…but, they didn’t so I took it downstairs and hit it with heavy duty oven cleaner and after two coats and a little scrubbing, the paint came off and it appears that it is made out of copper and it polished up pretty nicely with the copper scrubber I was using to get the paint off….so, it can go back up Thursday after the paint dries and it will look pretty cool…it looked like the fixture had never been removed since the house was built with the electrical tape they used to cover the bare wires hard as a rock that I had to chip off to get the connections loose…so it looks like I’m on schedule to finish the room in a couple of weeks after the white paint cures and I can mask it off to paint the grey on the walls…on to the bathroom…just might be done for the summer by the end of April instead of May…4 months off? Sounds pretty damn cool right now….
Still more progress…
Well…it’s been another one of those days where I have made progress on the house and that means the work in the bedroom is winding down and should move into waiting time after tomorrow…I did get two coats of paint on the baseboards and wash all of the ceiling and walls today..but I ran out of paint and had to make a run out to depot to get another gallon of white paint…should have planned that since I knew that I was going to be painting the trim and ceiling this week but I was focused on doing all the other work that needed to be done in there and it slipped my mind…oh, well…I am going to take the overhead light down and paint the ceiling tomorrow and then I need to get all the plaster off it so I can put it back up and have it look okay….and I started on the last repairs to the wall behind the sink in the bathroom that I will finish up later in the week with hopes to paint in there next week and finish it up with hanging the new blinds…got a bike ride in and started cleaning up the dust in the living room but when it got to 3:30 or so, I had enough for the day and quit….so, all in all, a good day and now I’m waiting for the t-storms to come in later tonight….
I guess “donated” means something different to Elon…
Well…at the start of the Russian war against Ukraine, the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, mad a big deal about “donating” some of his starlink internet receivers to Ukraine so they could continue to access the internet even if the hardwires were destroyed…well…I guess “donated” means something different to ole Elon than it does to you or me….just today, it was reported that you and I paid our tax dollars at the market price of 1500 bucks per receiver for the 1333 terminals that Elon said he “donated”…and the government also paid 800K to transport them to Ukraine….so, I guess Elon couldn’t afford to donate 3 million bucks like he says he can’t afford to pay taxes even though he made hundreds of billions of dollars during the pandemic….that is the problem with depending on the largess of billionaires instead of taxing them and then letting the government put the money to best use…most of these guys are just greedy as hell and to have them give up a penny for the greater good is just too much to ask it appears….so, while you see Elon patting himself on the back for a lie, just remember he was a regular at the trump WH and is just another maga asshole who cares about nothing but himself….geez…