Well…after doing the 5 hours on the bedroom yesterday, my plan was to take it a little easier today but, you know me, that was just not going to happen…but I didn’t plan on a really busy day like today…started out with getting on the bike downstairs and then right to the baseboards and spent 3 hours on that before I just called it a day…I did get them pretty much done so I was okay with that…so I made lunch and it was warm enough to get outside for a ride…finally…so I got 13 miles in and got back here in time to see part of the champions league matches and write checks for a bunch of bills I needed to pay along with getting my absentee ballot request filled out…but it was bugging me that I didn’t clean up enough so I suited back up in the work clothes and put in a couple more hours in the bedroom cleaning and then starting work on the window in there…the beige paint they had slathered all over my nice vinyl window was irritating the heck out of me so I worked on figuring out how to remove that without hurting the window and came up with a brainstorm to use rubbing alcohol and paper towel and lots of elbow grease and the paint mostly came off….so I know I can restore it to normal with just a little more work…I gave up for the day around 7 and that made for a long, busy day…going to try to take it a little easier tomorrow…yeah, right….my hand really hurts…owwww….
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This is kind of funny…
Well…started on the trim in the bedroom this morning with getting at the baseboards with the sander and that didn’t work very well….so I got my angle grinder out with the 60 grit flap disc on it and started to try that…after about a foot, all of the upstairs smoke detectors started to freak out and scream every alert they have at me…with the one in the living room cycling through both the fire and carbon monoxide alerts….so I just removed the one in the bedroom that is just like the one downstairs that freaked out when I was using the grinder on wood and had to remove that one, too…and, like an idiot, I forgot to open the window and put the fan in it to take the dust outside since I didn’t think there would be a lot of it…but, there was and I was coated before I finished…but the grinder worked great in taking off the carpet infused paint and after three hours, I almost have the baseboards ready to be filled and sanded…but, the work really screwed up my shoulder and thumb again so I may have to be a little more careful for the next week and try to let them heal a bit….break time….
What are you waiting for dems?
Well…with the failure of the racist repubs in the senate to block Judge Jackson’s elevation to the supreme court that will happen later in the week, these same assholes have started to say the quiet thing out loud, that they will never allow another dem president to put another justice on the supreme court. This is not how it is supposed to work as these same hypocrites say that Jackson is qualified but her “ideology” is what they are voting against….and with that the repubs abandon the idea that has been one guiding principle in elevating judges to the supreme court, that they are there to rule on the law using precedent and sound legal reasoning without an agenda or ideology…but with the all of the repub appointed justices, it is clear that the repubs are okay with ideology influencing the court’s decisions if it is right wing ideology…and the blunt fact is that their use of ideology is just a substitute for race since the repub party is filled with racists and they just hate the idea of having a black woman judge telling them what to do. So now, with the admission that the repubs will not do their job and approve dem justices to the SC when they are nominated, the dems need to get on expanding the court right now to take the incentive away for this obstruction…after all, if there is no reward for being the assholes they are, maybe they will be less of one…yeah, I know, have you seen these guys? They just love being assholes and don’t need any incentive…geez…
April 5th
Well…made it all the way to 6:21 this morning with only getting up once overnight and I’ll take that…more tossing and turning than normal but that’s okay…my hand and shoulder got better after two ibuprofens yesterday and they don’t hurt that much today…will abuse them again today working on the baseboards so the pain will probably come back…who am I kidding? The pain will come back and I am really looking forward to the day when I can paint the bedroom and have it done but I still see that as a month away but I’m inching toward it…it looks like I maybe able to get out on the bike outside today around two or so…will still only be 48 degrees but I need to get some fresh air and can suit up for that…then it looks like big rain for a few days and then back outside Sunday…and then back into the 40’s again and the whipsawing of temp is driving me nuts…I think this is going to be one of those years where we go from winter to summer and skip spring altogether…and I’ll miss that…I do love the smell of spring and the feel of the sun when it warms up….not much to do today…just the bike ride and then on to the trim in the bedroom that I have to figure out how to sand with 5 coats of really hard, old paint and carpeting stuck in it….don’t want to use my grinder with a flap disc but I may have to…and that will make much more filling necessary…oh, well….more later….
There’s something wrong with this….
Well…this has been one of my strangest days in a long time…maybe not strange but different than most of them…I mean, still drinking coffee at 3 in the afternoon? There is definitely something wrong with that…I’m normally done with coffee by 10 in the morning but all of the work today put me so behind on everything that I just had lunch at 2 and that never happens..but, that will mean there is no possible way to get a second meal in today so I guess I’ll have to live on a baked pork chop and a handful of oven fries….and I really need to stop drinking coffee or I won’t be sleeping until tomorrow…I am done for the day and need to get to my allergy meds and even an ibuprofen since I am not very good at using my left hand on the space bar….maybe tomorrow will be easier…hope so…
Tucker is at it again….
Well…yeah, I really expected this from that little asshole…after the entire world has seen and recognized the war crimes that the Russians are committing in Ukraine, Tucker goes on anther show on fox this morning to still continue to make excuses for Putin and the Russians saying that the pictures of the dead and the mass graves and the eyewitness accounts of the crimes are all fake and posed by the Ukrainians….and he justifies this bit of assholery by saying “I’m just asking questions…why can’t I ask questions?” Look, asshole, just because you and you right wing asshole cronies would do something like stage a war crime…or have your president blackmail the Ukrainians into faking dirt on Biden, it doesn’t mean that the rest of the world would do it…I mean every damn country including the US has seen the evidence and called it war crimes…but your and the repubs sweet, sweet Russian support will go away if you don’t act like the toady you are and give Putin and the murderous monster Russian army cover for these crimes…I have one question to ask you, moron…how the hell do you sleep at night? Okay, you have no shame or compassion so it’s probably pretty easy for an asshole like you….you need to be fired…and today…geez…
Running late…bear with me….
Well…damn, running late, late, late today with working 5 1/2 hours on the bedroom and just finishing up…haven’t even looked at the news today so I haven’t been able to find a topic yet or eat lunch…and my right arm and hand just gave up on me so now I’m hitting the space bar with my left thumb it hurts so much not even using it…but I did get all of the plaster work and divot filling done…used up another 8 pound tub of the plaster filler I’ve been using and I am getting a little concerned about all of the dollars going out…spent 300 bucks on house stuff this month and that’s without the 3 gallons of paint I need to keep moving…glad I got the 400 dollar check for my insurance rebate but I still need to save for the 700 bucks going out in August for my car insurance…oh, well….need to go read some news so I can come back with a political one….more later…
April 4th
Well…that was better…slept pretty well last night and feel okay this morning and my eyes are better…at least I could read my tablet without resorting to having it two feet away and everything seems clear today so I’ll take it…but, I’m coughing like crazy so the trees must be starting to bloom and my allergies are going nuts….crap….I think my right shoulder is edging up to needing some rest since it hurts all the time now and I have more abuse to heap on it today and for the next few weeks as I get the bedroom ready to paint…I do need to plaster a couple of spots that I missed yesterday and I can’t figure that out…I mean one place as big as my hand is right next to one that I filled and I just had to shake my head about missing it….and I do need to do a corner and fill some of the bad skim coat on the ceiling that they ended a couple of inches before it hit the wall…so probably two batches of plaster today before I get to fixing the divots that I put in the walls scraping….we were supposed to get3-5 inches of snow last night but it looks like it stayed warm enough for it to be all rain…we even had a winter weather advisory on all night until noon today and I really, really hope it’s the last one for the spring….not much to do today….back on the bike again here in a few minutes and I hope to get all of the divots and holes in the walls filled so I can sand later in the week….I really can’t believe how many nail holes there are in the walls that were revealed when I removed the wallpaper….not sure if this is a contender for the worst room in the house after the mess that was the kitchen but it’s close…the trim was painted with the carpet in place and some of the old fibers are still stuck in the paint and I’ll have to get some really coarse sandpaper for my small sander to smooth that out…damn, there is still a lot of work to do in there…but it will be worth it when I move in….more later….
Now I have a work disorder…
Well…along with my other disorders, eating and sleeping…I now think I have a work disorder, too…you know that I normally take Sundays off to let my body heal and to just live for a bit every week but today I just couldn’t….so I got to work on the bedroom and got all of the plastering done that took about 3 hours…it looks okay but I think I do need to smooth it and maybe even fill a bit more later in the week after I give it a week or so to dry….I am still having problems getting the consistency of the plaster right and only having about 5 minutes from mixing to it setting up is a pain in the butt….so I had to make up 5 batches to fill the 10 places I needed to cover…but I am going to try to not be anal about it not being perfect…after figuring out that perfection is not what I’m after anymore…just clean and better than before is good enough…and that is really hard for me right now….and I can’t use my right hand much other than to do this…so I guess I do need to pay attention to that and maybe cut back a little on the work…but not much…
Hey Tucker, justify this….
Well…look, I want every Putin apologist asked to justify his cretin army murdering civilians as they are driven out of Ukraine…I’m looking at you, Tucker…you tiny little creep…go on the air now and continue your support for Putin…I dare you you soulless monster…after seeing the images of civilians with their hands tied behind their backs shot in the head and executed for the only reason that they are Ukrainians and their countrymen are kicking Putin’s ass, support him some more and twist yourself into pretzels blaming these murder victims for being murdered…and that goes for the rest of the repub Russian apologists….media, do your damn jobs and ask them this question every damn time they go on tv to lie and lie…and don’t stop until they stop going on the air…all of them are monsters and they deserve to pay for this….geez…