Well..crap…woke up this morning with the blotchy rash I had when I was working on the kitchen all over me again…and I’m pretty sure that it is from all of the dust I have been exposed to working on the bedroom and I still have two days more of dust eating to do to get it ready to paint….I am a little reluctant to take the flonase I’ve been using to control the allergies since I wonder if that has something to do with it? This is just what I need with already beating the hell out of my body just trying to get the work done and I don’t want to take any time off for the rash to go away especially when I’m not sure that the dust is the cause…it makes sense but until I have a doctor out here, I won’t be able to know for sure and that isn’t going to happen until I have my work done…and I put in almost 7 hours today with sanding the two door frames, the window, and the rest of the baseboards and then putting two coats of paint on the window and frames…I am so beat up that I am glad I have tomorrow off other than hanging the door…I did attach the shop vac to the sander to try to control the dust but that meant I had to shake out the filter bag a dozen times with it plugging up in about 5 minutes of usage…but better to have that dust outdoors than in for sure…but now, I’m taking the rest of the day off…just beat and sore and I’ve done enough….might be more later if I can find a topic….
Monthly Archives: April 2022
April 9th
Well…this is going to be an ugly morning with not sleeping at all last night and I have about 12 minutes to get on the bike with Man U playing at 7:30 that I want to see…yesterday was a little bit of a disappointing day with only getting the door frames sanded and filled and then waiting for the filler to dry and waiting, and waiting until I was just done working for the day and it was still not dry….so that leaves me with all of the trim to sand today and eating a lot of dust….don’t know why I’m rushing so much to get the sanding done since I’ll have a couple of weeks after I paint the trim to paint the rest of the room….so I guess I’ll finish up the bathroom next week…don’t seem to be as sore today but that will change after I work and I do need to take something for it before I get to working…it looks like it may be warm enough to ride outside tomorrow so it looks like it won’t be a day off like I really need and I do need to hang the door, too, but that should only take a few minutes….not much to do today…just need to get started right now and then power through the day but I sure don’t feel like it right now…don’t even have time to have coffee before the bike and that is going to suck…..more later….
Ted Cruz’s reaction was so delicious..
Well…when I watched Ted Cruz’s antics during Justice Jackson’s confirmation hearing, I thought it was just ted being ted…the racist ass that he is who thinks he is the smartest guy in the room…and then to see him get up and basically run out of the senate chamber as the dems applauded the new SC justice…it hit me that I know why he did it…the fact that Justice Jackson was a classmate at Harvard and she is on the supreme court must gall the hell out of him since he knows he will never be…and will never be as accomplished as she is or as respected…and I’m sure that is just boiling his ass as he shrinks away into the screeching baboon that he is….what a small, rotten little soul resides inside that ugly husk…too bad teddy….
Dang filler didn’t dry…
Well….another day of working on this place trying to get ready to eat dust on Monday when I sand the entire bedroom but I didn’t accomplish what I wanted by getting the door frames sanded and filled and then sanded for painting…but for some reason the filler didn’t dry so I couldn’t do the final sanding and that is irritating me a bit…I know I can do that tomorrow and still get the painting done, too, but, when my plans don’t work out, it leaves me a little uneasy for the rest of the day…I did get the hinges painted and they came out okay but I think I need to sand the next ones better after the strip for the finish to be acceptable to me….I am going to put them back up just to see if I’m being too critical but if I’m not, I can always take them back down when I work on the door and refinish them…but, I’m done for the day…I did get the airlock up on the bedroom door and the fan evacuated the dust pretty well earlier until the wind changed to out of the west and then it overpowered the fan and the airlock so I had to stop for the day…back at it tomorrow…
Wanted to talk about about this for a while…
Well..I know most of you come here for my rantings on politics for some reason…and I thank you for that…although I’ve never figured out how to make any cash of the 10,000 of these I’ve done…I guess I don’t have enough “content” for google ads to allow me to have ads on my site so oh,well…but this one is not about politics, I’m just not feeling it today so I’m going to talk about something I’ve been thinking about lately with all of the work on this place…when I was young, we lived in a 100 year old house that was pretty old and worn out with plaster falling off the walls, leaking roof, doors that didn’t work and it didn’t even have indoor plumbing until I was born…and that was in the 50′s….and a basement that was full of junk that no one did anything about….it was full when I was born, and it was full until the house burned down in the early 60′s…and no one did any painting, plaster work or anything else to the house other than a very little cleaning…other than putting a new roof on it when the leaks got so bad we ran out of pans to catch them….so, and this is my question after all the exposition: how the hell did I get to be a person who is compelled to work on his house to the point of damaging his body after being brought up like that? I never learned how to do plaster or paint or anything else about maintaining houses when I was young…I did learn about fixing cars but that was about it….and this house as I bought it was nicer than the one I grew up in so why couldn’t I just move in and live? These are questions I don’t really have any answers for but it has been making me think lately…the questions won’t make me change my attacking this house and busting my butt to improve it…just thinking about how I got to this place at my age…that’s all…
Here’s the one I promised…
Well…with getting off track this morning and turning the first post into a house one…unintentionally….here is the one that I promised…even with all of the pain, I slept okay last night and feel pretty good this morning….and I really do think there is something to this taking care of myself and being good…I can see doing that for a long time and, when I find a doctor out here, I’m hoping my blood pressure will be better as I know my weight will be…and that’s a funny thing, I have never owned a scale to weigh myself but I can tell when I’m making progress staying in shape…as I said before, I think, that I have run out of holes in the belt I’ve had for more than ten years and I guess that means I’ve lost two inches plus off my waist since the start of the year…and I think that is something to be happy with….I still marvel at how I have a house of my own to live in that has everything I want except it’s not in GR…it’s still pretty cool to get in the car and hit the button and the garage door opens…little things make me happy and I’ve always been like that…like a nice looking lawn or getting flowers to come up in the yard….have never needed much for me to be happy…and I need to stop complaining about working on the house when there are so many people who would love to have this house and do the work for a place to call their own…and to have enough cash to live on and have a cushion that the majority of people in the US just don’t have….so, I need to reset my thinking…again…and even as I work my butt off around here, I need to appreciate what I’ve accomplished in this past year and look forward to taking some time off this summer…and that is going to be weird….but fun….
April 8th
Well…okay, have a catch 22 that has reared it’s ugly head as I’ve done damage to my right arm with all of the work around here…when I hit the sack, I need to lie on my right side to keep my nose from plugging up so I can’t breathe and can’t sleep…but that leaves me howling in pain as it is right now…and if I sleep on my left side, my head immediately plugs up and I can’t sleep on that side, either, but my right side doesn’t hurt…need to figure this one out and I think it will probably include resting my right arm to let it heal up…but I don’t have time for that in my schedule to have the bedroom done before the end of May…hmmmm….I was down in the basement when I got up at 5:30 to take a look at the hinges that I let soak in strip overnight to get the multiple coats of heavy paint off….it worked pretty well and I cleaned them up and wire brushed the parts and screws…they will be usable with a new coat of black paint that I’ll do later today so I can put the door back on after I repair and paint the door frame later this morning….I think these old hinges will look pretty cool when I’m done with them…have them soaking in soap and water right now to get the last of of the strip off them and will take them out to dry as soon as I get off the bike…and that gives me the process I need to do the door frame in the bathroom before I paint the walls in there….too damn much work and I am going to try to take Sunday off to rest my hands since Monday is going to be a dust day and I am going to try to do all of the remaining sanding so I can start to paint the trim and let it set for a couple of weeks to harden before I mask it off to do the grey walls….damn, this one turned into a work one so I guess I owe you a life one later….will do that when I get off the bike….more later….
How about a little whining?
Well…you know I’m pretty pissed off about how my body seems to be gradually failing me as I work on this place so I’m going to whine about that a bit…I ran out of energy again this afternoon but not as badly as yesterday so that’s not something to whine about…or maybe it is…still not sure why it’s happening but it’s probably food again and I did it again today with just having as square of lasagna to eat all day today…and again, it’s because I decided to work until the baseboards were completely filled today and didn’t even get started on putting the lasagna together until almost 1…and after eating a little after two, there is just no way I can eat again today…just not hungry with the big slab of carbs still sitting in my stomach….and after I did eat, I got back to work taking the door off the bedroom so I can do the two frames tomorrow….I did buy some new hinges and don’t like them at all…I mean needing to remove a plug in the bottom with vicegrips and then take a special punch to punch the pin out…what a pain…and that drove me to using the old hinges so I am soaking two of them in strip overnight and it looks like they will come out okay so I can paint them black…which is the original color from 82 years ago and it will go with the heat register that I’m also doing in black….one thing I will whine about is my damn thumb…didn’t run the sander at all today…just a putty knife for filling and it hurts so bad I can’t use it again…and I will be using the sander tomorrow so it’s not going to get better…maybe the ibuprofen is just wearing off from this morning…who knows? I’m done for the day….
Feeling better and don’t know why…
Well…man, when I got up this morning, I hadn’t felt that lousy in quite a while…probably since I quit drinking the first week of Jan…but I feel better now and can’t figure out why…did everything as I always do every day and just now ate for the first time today…I did take some of the flonase and an ibuprofen since I hurt so badly and my head was stuffed up like nuts and that might be part of it…but I still have the off and on headache that I’ve had for months now and the sinus pressure has given me some eye pain, too, that hit like I’m being stabbed in the eye but only lasts a minute or so and then subsides….I would really like to know what the heck I did to feel better so I could keep doing it….even filled all of the baseboards in the bedroom and should feel really sore but don’t…weird….I may do a little more in there in a while and remove the hardware from the closet door frame but that will be it….should still have the bedroom done by the second week of May but I do need to start on the yard soon, too….too damn much work to do….
The party of Putin…
Well…you know, I’m pretty confused about how the heck the repub party turned into the party of Putin over the past few years…from the idiot trump’s kissing his ass and aiding him in trying to bring down the Ukraine, to the 68 repubs in the house who just his week voted against supporting NATO and the collecting of evidence of war crimes that Russian soldiers are committing there, what the heck is going on? It can’t be that it is just the hatred of anything dem that is motivating these traitors, so what is it? I did read an article the other day that said that the repub support of Putin is just another facet of the party’s hard swing to the right we’ve seen since the idiot trump made it okay to be a traitor, a racist, and a genuine asshole to anyone…and modeled the Putin ass kissing that the entire party seems to do now. When I was younger, the repubs had one thing they were known for and that was to be against the Soviet Union and it’s meddling in the world but now they seem to like it since it “owns the libs” and pisses us that are in the right off…is that their only reason for treason? Yeah, that one was a little cute but does describe what these idiots are doing…and still, no one holds them accountable because mcconnell and mccarthy are just drooling for power and don’t care how they get it…geez…