Well…not sure how this happened but I just watched a movie in the middle of the afternoon…when I was reading the news yesterday, I came across an article about science fiction movies on netflix that were good and flying under the radar of the general public…so, I even wrote one of them down on a used envelope so I would remember it sometime in the future…so, I found the envelope this afternoon and thought what the heck, I’d check it out…oh, forgot to say that it was a 2021 Japanese version of “the door into summer” by Robert Heinlein and had no plan to watch it today…just went out to look to see if it was there and started it…then I got sucked into watching the first part to see if I remembered the story and that continued until I watched the whole movie….it was a little bit of work with subtitles but well worth the effort…pretty good movie and I only feel a little guilty for wasting my afternoon to watch it…I did get some work done this morning and the next one will talk about that…more later…
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February 22nd
Well…that was okay…only got up once last night at 4am and slept in all the way til 6:17…but I don’t feel that hot with my allergies already getting bad and it’s not even spring yet…it’s probably from sanding yesterday even though I used the vacuum to collect the dust as I sanded….was miserable last night, too, and the allergy medicine that normally gives me relief didn’t work so I was plugged up all night and that continues this morning…but, I’m getting back into sanding and repair again this morning and I hope to have all of the door trim and baseboards done by tomorrow so I can paint Thursday…not sure about the door frame between the kitchen and dining room since it is in such bad shape but the sides need to be done so I can get the walls painted in the kitchen….still trying to decide how much repair work I’m going to do on the walls before I paint since I could work on them for weeks to get them smooth…and I’m not sure I want to do that much work….this place is 82 years old after all and it will have flaws but I will probably do some of the more obvious ones….not much to do today…just more work in the kitchen but it is a pain that my right hand is right back to where it was before I took a week off to rest it and it only took one short day of work to do that…so, I guess I just suck it up and get at it and can rest when I’m done with the kitchen….oh, I did have to use adhesive on the door seal to the basement since opening it pulled it loose last night…but damn, just about a 4 inch bead of glue is holding it fine this morning and it has gotten almost back to it’s normal shape….adhesive is a wonderful thing…and I need to get more tomorrow….more later….
Still shaking my head…
Well…you know I’ve been bitching a bit about how half assed lots of things were done on this house, and I just discovered another one that has me just shaking my head…as I was going downstairs to get another roll of paper towel, I noticed that the gasket seal to the door to the basement was distorted and I was a little curious why that would be….after looking at it, I saw that there were nails driven through the seals into the door frame and if it was to keep the seal in the groove, I just don’t know why they didn’t just take a little bit of adhesive and apply it to the tang that goes into the groove that is supposed to hold it in place….after I removed the nails and tried to get the seal to go back to it’s normal shape, it was stuck to the door frame and was not loose at all so again, I’m confused with the half assed way and reason why this was done at all….I really don’t think they knew that adhesive exists since they nailed the drawer head on the smallest drawer in the kitchen cabinets, too, and I had to remove those nails and glue the head on as it should have been…I wonder what else I’m going to find as I continue to work on this place? I wonder if that’s why my neck hurts…from shaking my head so much?
Back to work…
Well…had the discipline to get back to working on the kitchen today and got a 12 foot section of the baseboards sanded and repaired along with a big chunk of plaster that had fallen out when I was sanding off the extra paint that was on them….and I saw that the green was not the original color of the kitchen but a nice yellow that they shouldn’t have painted over with the dark green that they used….I did learn something with all of the other filling that I had to do for the cupboards…and that is to use the very smallest amount that I can and I even went over the parts that I filled with a wet paper towel to take off the excess and make it easier to sand by hand so I don’t have to spread dust all over with the sander…I am going to use the shop vac to plug into the sander to help control the dust like I did this morning with the original sanding…working down on the floor really hurt my legs to the point I could barely move when I finished with the filling and the sanding beat the heck out of my right hand so quitting after only 12 feet was the right idea…I can still finish the trim by the end of the week and be ready to paint them so maybe on to the ceiling and walls next week? That will finish up what I want to do in the kitchen and get me started on the dining room trim and windows…..and those are in much better shape than the kitchen so it should go faster…I hope, anyway….
February 21st
Well…running about on time this morning with getting up at 6 but I was up and down all night so I feel kinda worn out today…but that’s normal and I can deal with that…I did get out of here for a bit yesterday since I wanted to go out to the beach and take a look at the ice and get a photo of the MIata out there…didn’t plan on getting out on the ice with the wind blowing over 40 mph but I still may try to do that before it melts….and I saw a bald eagle come in for a landing in a tree over the road on the way back and that was cool…didn’t get anything else done since my Sundays are my one day of the week that I take the day off and really just veg out and that is the goal for finishing the house…to get to the point that I only have little things to do every day and taking a day off is the norm instead of a plan…I still haven’t really retired and I am looking forward to the days when every day is like a Sunday….and that looks like it is about a year off…I am quickly coming up on a year in this place in a week or so and I think I’ve made a lot of progress getting it cleaned up and getting the things done that make it livable….I’ll go into that on the 27th of this month since that is the anniversary of moving in here….not much to do today…back on the bike here in a few minutes and I hope the dentist calls back to set an appointment so I can get started fixing my teeth…the pain is almost gone but it still hurts to chew anything harder than steamed asparagus and I need that fixed….and I’m going back to work on the house after taking the week off to let my hands heal…they still hurt and will get worse but I want to get the kitchen finished in the next couple of weeks….more later…
February 20th
Well…damn, I am getting tired of the cold and wind out here and sure want winter to be over….the sky looked cool with it being clear and I did stop and look up when I was walking out to the garage…and I guess the neighbors think I’m weird but that’s okay…I am…slept a little crappy last night with getting up twice and doing a lot of tossing and turning but I still feel okay with being good…still…and I don’t think only one day of being bad since January 2nd is something to feel bad about….and I’m over the hump to making this the new normal and the only thing is the boredom that comes with being good…my brain never shuts off anymore and that is a lot of work….didn’t get anything done yesterday but that was the plan with trying to get my hands to heal up some but I may work on the baseboards in the kitchen today to get moving on the rest of the kitchen…I do need to finish the bathroom today after getting the shower cleaned yesterday and it is so shiny that I am a little reluctant to use it today….and should I be excited about getting a new mop to do the floor? Damn, little things make me happy and I’m not going to apologize for it….not much to do today…I am just going to sit here and drink coffee for a while since I don’t have to get on the bike today but I do have to at least take a shower before Man U plays at 9….and Daytona is on later today so I’ll have something to nap to to make up for the crappy sleep last night…more later….
It seems to be working…
Well….as I talked about somewhat earlier, I have been trying a new technique to try to ignore the boredom from riding the bike 8 miles every morning…and that consists of focusing on the music that I’m listening to instead of thinking about the miles that I still have to do once I start…and, with this morning’s ride, the technique appears to be working and I had the best ride that I can remember listening to the first disc of “Secret World Live” by Peter Gabriel…there is something about listening to a piece of music as a whole instead of the snippets you get when you add songs to a playlist…I have watched the dvd of this performance so many times that I could actually see the songs in my head as they were playing and the joyousness the band showed when they performed….so I’m going to keep trying to find entire albums (yeah, I’m old) to listen to as I ride…thinking of “Physical Graffiti” by Led Zeppelin for Monday’s ride…I have tomorrow off…and that is making me grin a bit….more later….
February 19th
Well…this is just damn weird…two days of howling pain in my left jaw just stopped yesterday afternoon before I made pizza and it didn’t come back last night or overnight…I wonder if it was an infection and the amoxicillin I took knocked it down? All I know is that it still doesn’t hurt right now but I am going to keep the dentist appointment since I have been waiting 10 years to get started on the repairs that will allow me to eat ice cream on my birthday again…so I have til July to get that done…I’ll keep my fingers crossed that I can get through this week without pain….I was a little concerned last night with all of the high winds out here when my power blinked and the tv reset itself and that put me a little on edge since it is only about 11 degrees out there and heating this house with the range would be a huge pain in the butt…but, everything is still working and I am gong to get cramps from keeping my fingers crossed…again…even without working on this place for a day or so, my right elbow is really hurting this morning and I am wincing to just pick up my coffee cup and that is a little confusing but not really new….I wonder if all the sanding and abuse of my right arm and hand has done permanent damage to it? Sure hope not since I want to get 5K miles in on the bike this summer….not much to do today…just need to get on the bike here in 15 minutes or so and then I’m just going to wing it for the day…I do have to get out and shovel the snow but it doesn’t look as bad as I expected…we maybe got 2 inches of snow instead of the 4-6 that was forecast and I’ll take that any day….more later…damn, the tooth pain is starting up again…crap….
Made a good pizza….
Well…after being in pain all day with my teeth seeming to have a direct line to my brain, they went calm for a couple of hours so I decided to make the pizza that I had planned for a 4 day meal…and I wanted to try to add some flavor to the crust so I gave it a little garlic powder and Italian seasoning when I was mixing it up and hoped that even with the small amount I added, it would add another component to the taste…and I will say that it did and I’m happy with it…no more bland crust even with the tiny amounts I added…and I may add just a little bit more next time if I remember…I may have to make a note to the crust recipe I have in my notebook to make sure I do it right next time…my teeth are still only hurting a little and I have to try to figure out what I did to make that happen so I don’t suffer like I did last night…it is nice to have an appointment with a dentist to get the process of fixing my teeth started even if I do have to wait til next Friday to get in….and I still think that paying 360 dollars for a year of insurance to get 2500 bucks worth of work is a pretty good deal and I hope that it’s enough to get all of the work done except the molar removal and implant that I need…okay, the wind has been blowing so hard out here this afternoon that I can barely hear my tv when it gusts…and there is 3-6 inches of snow coming along with it so I may have drifts for the second time this winter….hope not…
An eventful morning…
Well…my damn teeth are howling at me again this morning and that spurred me into talking to delta dental and getting a list of dentists out here that take my medicare dental insurance….very nice person at delta got me that list and then gave me some advice that I should look into the supplemental dental coverage that is available through priority health…so she transferred me to them and I found that I can get 2500 bucks a year of coverage for 29 bucks a month and they will take it out of my SS check so I don’t have to deal with it at all…so, I signed up for it and made an appointment with a dentist that is near me and has great reviews but they can’t get me in for a week but I’m hoping that they get a cancellation so I can get in sooner…but the insurance doesn’t take effect until the first of March but they will need to do a cleaning and take some x-rays and those are already covered so at least I can get started and maybe they can help with the pain until they can start working…or I can just pay for the first filling until the ins starts….it is nice that I have that at least started and maybe I’ll be able to eat ice cream with berries for my birthday for the first time in years…and the person I talked to at Priority is sending me a list of spectrum doctors out here so I can get that taken care of too…so it has been an eventful morning and I’m glad I finally got off my ass and got this started….