Fooling around with a few small things…

Well…as I do my week off from working on this place, I have shifted to just fooling around with small jobs to get some information that I need to start planning the next big job…first, I thought I had lost the spare keys to the house and spent an hour looking for them…but the funny thing is that I found them exactly where I thought they were after looking there twice…so that was cool…and one weird thing about this place is that every interior door has door knobs with locks in them and I didn’t get any keys for them so I thought I’d have to replace them at 40 bucks a pop…but, this morning, I found that I can unlock them with just a screwdriver so I won’t have to replace them after all….just one less thing I have to do…but all of the interior doors need a lot of repair to fix the cobbled up jobs they did putting the new knobs and latches in…so they may need to come off for that but that’s okay with living alone….I also figured out how to remove the heat registers so I can strip and paint them…the backs are only held in by the ends of the duct work folded over a flange and the grates have two screws with catches that I got to work by chipping the paint off them so all of them now fit how they are supposed to and I can take them all off when it gets warmer and start stripping them…I did get started on checking out the big blobs of stuff that were stuck to the walls in the bathroom and it looks like they are just filler that was never sanded and it came off with my putty knife…and that got me started on the bathroom so I guess that’s the next room to work on…I wonder if I should start on the window first? But not today…I’ve already hurt my thumb again and that sucks…so maybe back to resting for the rest of the day…

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