Well….damn, that took a long time and lots and lots of work but it is finally done…not the whole kitchen, that will take another couple of weeks…after I take some time off to let my hands heal so they don’t keep me up all night again…but the kitchen cabinets are complete after putting the pulls on the drawers and putting them in…and putting the new blinds up on the window over the sink…oh, and cleaning the windows and the other two sets of blinds that were coated in dust…and that is a pain in the butt having to do each slat individually but it’s done and they are re-hung and look pretty damn good…so, am I going to take the rest of the day off? Ha, ha…no…I almost did but I really do want to get started on the dust room downstairs…won’t get it all done today but I’ll get a start at it and then cleaning is all I have to do for a week or so as I take it easy for my poor body…when I was cutting down a screw to make it fit in the top drawer’s thin head using my grinder with a cutoff wheel, I cut off a bunch of skin on my left hand this time so there is even more to heal….but, right now all I want to do is finish my coffee and make a marinated chicken leg quarter with some asparagus that was on sale for 1.49 a pound at Meijers today…I need a break….more later….
February 9th
Well…damn, running late this morning with waking up at 5:11 and thinking I was up for the day but laid back down and didn’t get up until 6:44 and that puts me late for doing this and getting on the bike by 7:15….didn’t sleep well at all last night with getting up an down all night and I am waiting for the coffee to work so I can get moving…I really can wait a little while to get on the bike since I can’t get out for the grocery run until 8:30 or so with Aldi’s not opening until 9….I am a little excited about finishing up the cupboards and getting the last blinds up in the kitchen this morning and then starting to clean up the dust room downstairs…that is so bad that it is going to take me a few days to clean up and I need to do the entire basement since the drop cloths didn’t contain all of the dust and there is a thin film on everything down there as there is up here from fitting up the doors a couple of days back…but cleanup means progress on the house and I can start putting the food back in my pantry cupboard today and will be back to normal in the kitchen in a couple of days…I do need to clean the double window and shades today, too, along with the walls and ceiling so I can get ready to paint in a couple of weeks….not much to do today…need to get my butt in gear and get on the bike right now after only one cup of coffee…and I’m not sure how that is going to go…more later….
Almost done…
Well…after eating dust for another day and finally getting the drawers painted with two coats, I can say I’m almost done with the kitchen…kitchen cabinets that is and will put the handles on them tomorrow and put them in their places…and I even got the last set of blinds today and can clean the window and install them tomorrow…and then two weeks of cleaning up downstairs and up here since I can leave trails in the dust everywhere and that can’t be healthy for me after the rashes I got from dust exposure the past few days…I did have a nice lunch with my brother today and that in itself was weird…went down to the no name saloon just down the street where you can get a burger, fries, and a beer for 6 bucks for lunch and I even picked up the tab…talking about the two new houses going up across the street, he mentioned that he thinks my house on this double lot is worth 140K now…and if that’s true, I’ve made 50K on this place since I bought it a year ago…. and that gives me almost 90K in equity…and that’s not bad with being broke 3 years ago…and that gets me well over my goal of having over 100K in assets that I thought I wouldn’t get to for a few years at least…so that makes me pretty comfortable and I am really looking forward to the week off after I clean this place up….life isn’t bad…
Is this enought to arrest idiot boy?
Well…just got back from lunch with my brother and I’m running a little late today…but I did want to talk about he latest criminal behavior by the idiot boy and am wondering again: is this enough to arrest him yet? Just a while back, the National Archivist had to raid the idiots bedbug ridden Florida golf course to retrieve 15 boxes of presidential records that he had stolen and I’m sure was going to try to sell to the highest bidder…but, none of that stuff belongs to him, it belongs to the US people and there is even a law against removing these records from the WH that has a penalty of 3 years in prison…and the kicker is that if he is convicted of this crime as he should be, he is disqualified from holding any office again…so no more running for president or anything else but we just need the DOJ to get some guts and prosecute him for at least one of the hundreds of crimes he has committed…this one should be a slam dunk…after all, how else would the records get there? Indict this ass now, and it will shut him up forever…do it!
February 8th
Well…the pain in my hands has finally gotten to the point that it is keeping me up at night even with taking an ibuprofen to try to make it tolerable…and I have one last day of abuse to load on them to finish the drawers today…I have decided to take a week or so off after today to let them heal up and the place needs a huge cleanup anyway with the dust I spread around fitting up the doors yesterday…I am looking forward to tearing down the dust room downstairs and getting that cleaned up in the next couple of days…the last set of blinds for the kitchen are out for delivery so I may get them today and that will be a project for tomorrow to install them but that means I need to get the window inset cleaned up and wash the window but I’ll wait til I get the brackets up before I do that so I only have to clean once…okay, that’s enough about the house…this is a little weird but I find myself enjoying going out to shovel the snow and getting some fresh air while I use new muscles that I don’t use working on the house….it seems just so old fashioned to have my sidewalks clear and not done with some kind of power equipment…I am thinking about buying a work bench to put downstairs so I can mount my vise to it and have a place to work on things…not sure where I’d put it but it could go in the space I’m using for the dust room or in the bike room…I saw a nice one online for about 150 bucks with two levels and other features that would make it handy….but, I burned a couple of grand this month with paying my property taxes and my house insurance along with all of the stuff I needed for the house so that will have to wait a while…not much to do today…just the drawers and starting on cleanup…and I think I’ll start putting the food back into the upper cupboards but it all needs to be sorted and cleaned first…and I need to toss stuff that has been in there for a year….more later…
More repub voter fraud in Florida…
Well…you probably haven’t heard about the latest scam the repubs in Florida are pulling to suppress the votes of poor and elderly people there where they go into low income housing and then change the registration all of the people who live there to repub from dem without their permission…and the people didn’t find out about the scam until new repub voter registration cards started showing up in the mail. So, a local DA has opened an investigation into the voter fraud and has asked Garland to open a federal investigation into it since it is a federal crime to lie on voter registration forms…and when the head of the Florida repub party was questioned about the fraud, she did the typical deflection that they all do and said: “the dems should support our voting integrity bill to stop this kind of thing..”…and that is just so damn rich…the repubs commit voter fraud and then use their own fraud to push more restrictions on voting…there is just no shame or integrity in these people…and I really hope this person approved the fraud and goes to jail for it…after all, it is only the repubs that commit these crimes across the country…and they need to pay for it…geez…
Still drinking coffee at 2pm..
Well…I came to a decision today…I am not doing another house…after doing my son’s for 15 months and getting straight into this one for a year now, it has me drinking coffee at 2 in the afternoon after working on this place for 5 hours today…but I am down to one more day of eating dust and I am really happy about that…made a damn big mess today fitting up the last 4 doors in the kitchen..I didn’t remember how bad they were when I took them off and I probably should have fit them up before I painted them…had to use my grinder and a flap disc to take off enough wood to make them close so that means I need to repaint the edges of the doors where I had to cut them down to make them fit…but, not today…I made such a mess in the kitchen with all of the dust and wood chips that I had an hour of clean up to do after sanding the big patch and some other filler…I am worn out and in pain so I am going to finish my coffee and take a break for a bit…looks like another one meal day since it’s too late for lunch and too early for dinner so I may just make some rye toast and call it good…I’ll be back later for a political one….I hope…
February 7th
Well…damn, I slept hard last night…felt like curling where they keep shouting “HARD” while someone is sweeping in front of the stone…okay, I get it, most of you won’t get the curling reference but if you have the chance, watch a little at the Olympics and you’ll see what I mean…I think I’m going to take a week off after getting the last 4 doors hung in the kitchen today and finishing up the drawers tomorrow…I really need to clean up the dust room downstairs and put stuff away and I need to rest my hands since they hurt so badly and have cuts and bruises all over them that I can barely move them…and the pain has moved into my right elbow, shoulder, and back. and I know that nothing will help that except for rest….so a big push over the next two days and then some time off….and then back on the kitchen for the ceiling, walls, and trim to finish it up…I was a little stupid yesterday and only had one meal and some toast to eat and that will change today since I know I’m going to feel it later…when I was sanding the doors in the dust room, the dust made the cobwebs visible and, even though it was a little gross, it looked cool, too and I have to remember to vacuum them up as I tear it down…lots to do today….need to get on the bike here in a few minutes and then fill all the flaws in the drawers so I can sand and paint them tomorrow….and I do have to sand the big patch in the kitchen and do a little detail sanding so the corners look finished and then clean up after that…and that should be the last of the big dust and my skin can use the rest…more later…
Someone needs to show me how to relax…
Well…as you know, I really do try to take one day off a week and let my poor old body the chance to rest some and stop hurting…but I really don’t know how and someone needs to show me…as I said earlier, I did start putting stuff back into the cupboards this morning and washed all of the dishes and food that are going back in there….and I really should have stopped there…but no, can’t do that…so I went down and started to put the hardware on the 5 small doors that are on the sink side cupboards…and once I did that, I decided to mount and fit them since they were just sitting there…but, these doors were in such poor shape that they took a lot of work to get them to open and close correctly…and I now understand why they had magnets on most of them to make them stay closed….and the last one closes on a part of the frame that is at least 3/8ths of an inch set out from the rest of it from how out of square they are…and now I get why it kept popping open even with a magnet on it…so I had to make up a 3/8th shim to put under the hinge so it didn’t have stress on it when the door closed. Yeah, big pain in the butt but at least it closes and stays closed with just the pressure from the self closing hinge now…okay, it’s almost two and I am taking the rest of the day off…I need it…oh, and I did laundry, too, and I’m now waiting for it to finish so I can put the bedding back on my bed and put the rest of it away…darn…too damn much work…
This is smart…
Well…I’m not sure if any of you read about this but it put a big smile on my face…some time last week, as I was reading the news, I came across an article about a woman here in Michigan who is getting a petition drive up to put a woman’s control of her own body on the ballot and enshrine those rights in our constitution…and with almost 70% of the people here supporting a woman’s right to choose, if she can get enough signatures on the petitions, which I will gladly sign, we can finally take this weapon away from the repubs here and make sure they can never make women second class citizens again. I think this is a reaction the almost certain overturning of Roe by the right wing zealots on the SC…taking away a right that women have had sine the 70’s…something that has never happened in the history of the country…but that doesn’t matter to the right wing hacks on the SC…every one of who promised that Roe was “settled law” and they would follow precedent and leave it in place….but every damn one of them lied their asses off during their confirmation hearings and that should be enough to remove them from the court. This is what comes from reps who only serve a small minority of the country trying to jam their religion down our throats…we will find a way to fight back…and this amendment is the best way I’ve seen…geez…