Well…only did two hours on the cupboards this morning since my thumb is howling at me and my back is not much better…but, I did get the upper cupboard cleaned up and ready for plastering…and I got the bottom part of it plastered and I can say I’m a plasterer now…it came out so much better than I expected that all I have to do is run the sander over it lightly to knock down the ridges…it is new for me to plaster since I can’t remember ever doing it before and you have to go really fast since you only have about 6 minutes until it sets…so, I hauled butt and got it done and even got my paint pan cleaned up before it set so now I know the method I need to use and I should get better at it as I go along….I think this cupboard is going to look much better than I had any reason to expect with how bad it was…but going so fast using my thumb to hold the putty knife has really hurt it and I know I need to take something for it…but, I’ll have the whole interior of that one done tomorrow and I can get going on the exterior Saturday….crap, even my right forearm and elbow hurt now…ow….
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Trump loses…again…
Well…you would think idiot boy would get tired of all of the losing in every damn court in the country…okay, he hasn’t lost yet in the civil case in NY but it is looking like he will in a few weeks…but yesterday, idiot boy lost big in the supreme court with an 8-1 ruling that turns all of the info that the January 6th committee requested from the National Archives over to them…probably today…and that info will flesh out the who, what, when, and why of the WH’s role in the insurrection and could possibly lead to criminal charges all the way to the top…I am a little bit geeked about that since the committee has been releasing lots of info on what went on and who is responsible….and could possibly make the stonewalling of Mark Meadows and others moot since these are detailed records of who was there, who they talked to including texts, phone calls, and e-mails and the content of those calls….so, the idiot boy really should be thinking of making a run for it…I’m sure Putin would grant him asylum before he is charged with insurrection…but that won’t matter since he won’t be able to come back if he leaves or he’ll be arrested…we can only hope…
January 20th
Well…5:04 and 6:36…and I really do think that is getting to be the new normal but I went to bed early so I guess that’s okay…crappy sleep is getting to be part of that new normal and I’m sure I don’t like that…I did have dreams about shoveling snow that turned into shoveling dirt for some reason and I’m not sure what that is about…but it was in my yard so at least that was familiar….I am still sore from the kitchen work that has been going on what seems like forever but I’ll be back at it after I get on the bike here in a minute…and I need to teach myself how to plaster today since the cabinet over the stove is just a frame and the plaster walls that show on the inside are too crappy to repair with the filler I have been using…so I got tools for that yesterday and I am going to give it a try after I get all of the loose stuff removed…so that is probably going to take a few days and then I have to wait for it to dry before I can paint…so I may start to work on the doors or finish up the other cabinets and get them painted…at least the airlock screen I put up in the kitchen door is working to keep the dust in the kitchen…but I still have a good months worth of work in there with the repairs to the plaster on one wall and then sanding and repainting the baseboards before I paint the walls…and I have some skim coat peeling on the ceiling that I am going to try to repair before I can paint that…I do feel good that the kitchen is the biggest project that needed to be done and the rest of the house will be pretty easy….not much to do today…it looks like I have some snow to shovel this afternoon after I get this day’s work done on the kitchen and I do need to cook so it’s going to be a bit busy once I get started here in a few minutes….more later…
Taking the rest of the day off…
Well…it’s been a busy one today with doing the grocery run this morning…and I laughed at what the total bill was today…only 15 bucks but Meijers and Aldi’s didn’t have a lot of the stuff I wanted so that saved me some cash…but 15 bucks? It’s pretty cool when you don’t buy cocktail materials…and today is the 17the day of being good and I am starting to like it….but I am really sore from working on the cupboards but only have the one over the stove to do…but it is by far the worst of all of them and it is going to take a few days to get it done so I may not get to painting til next week with still having to do the final finish sanding on all of them…but right now, I’m taking the rest of the day off after cleaning up after this mornings work…Man U plays this afternoon and I want to start to watch them but if they suck like they have been, it will be a short watch….
The walls are closing in on the trumps…
Well…with the trumps refusal to heed subpoenas in the NY civil case that NY’s AG James has brought…she has gone to court with a huge filing of evidence that she has of all of them committing fraud in inflating the worth of their property to get loans on those properties…especially the idiot boy’s penthouse that is about 11,000 square feet when he told lenders it was 30,000 sqft…and this is only part of what James has said is a consistent pattern of fraud by the trumps including saying a property that is worth 20 million is worth 250 million including houses and other amenities that don’t exist….this filing is to convince a judge to compel the trumps to sit for depositions that they have sued to prevent…and even if they do show up, they will just do what Eric did when he took the fifth over 500 times in his deposition….but the screws are turning and we are getting close to trump and his stupid children ending up in jail….and it can’t happen too soon….geez…
Ordered my covid tests….
Well…as I sit here finishing up my coffee before I get to work on the kitchen, I decided to try to order my 4 free covid tests and it was the easiest damn thing I’ve done in a while…just went out to covidtests.gov and it only took about a minute to enter my address and hit the order button…and that was it…no insurance information or anything else was necessary to get it done and they will be shipped in a week or so…not sure if I’ll ever need them but with going out this weekend, if it’s not snowing, it will be nice to know if I’m sick or not…order the tests, they’re really free….more later…
January 19
Well…3:30 and 5:54, and that’s all I’ll say about that…slept pretty crappy with lots of tossing and turning and I hope that’s not the new pattern like the old pattern that I struggled with for years and years….I know I talk a lot about sleep but you don’t know what it’s like unless you’ve lived not being able to get any….just wears you right out…but hey, I’m not as sore as I expected to be after the work yesterday so I guess that’s something….and I really hope to have the cupboard work done today but I think it’s going to take until tomorrow…damn, just saw that there is a winter weather advisory in effect from later today through Thursday with at least 6 inches of snow and possibly more and there is a gale warning to go with it so there will be some drifting…glad I’m going out for groceries this morning and don’t need to go anywhere til Saturday…there is a reunion of sorts of the old gang I use to hang with in GR on Saturday but I won’t be going if it’s snowing…I am a little torn about it anyway with being in an enclosed space with people who aren’t wearing masks and omicron still tearing through west Michigan….not sure if it’s worth it to take the chance…sure don’t want to get sick….not much to do today…just the grocery run and a stop depot to get some more filler and some plaster tools since I need to get at the bad plaster patch in the kitchen…think I may buy a big bag of plaster this morning since it is so much cheaper than the filler I have been using and I do need to learn how to do skim coats with the bathroom ceiling needing a complete redo….and it’s only 20 bucks for 20 pounds which should be enough to do everything around here…and more work on the the cabinets in the kitchen to get ready to start painting them…so, I’ll be damn busy again today…just like every day…more later…
Four hours and I’m sore…
Well…a body this old is not supposed to be pretzeling itself into tiny little cupboards…it just isn’t…but that didn’t stop me from doing it for 4 hours today to sand and fill and I am damn sore from it…have only one more to do on the side of the kitchen near the sink along with the cabinet over the stove that is probably the worst one….and I am going to try to get both of them done tomorrow so I can do the final sanding Thursday and set myself up to start to paint the interiors Friday…and that is about a week earlier than I had planned but I can’t string a job out when I have work to do…and that is going to unleash huge clouds of dust in the kitchen that will have to be cleaned up before I can start to paint…and I know that there will be other repairs that will need to be made as I go along…as old and decrepit as the kitchen is, I know I’ll miss something and have to come back to it to fix it…but I am losing patience with everything that needs to be done…the cupboards probably should have been torn out and replaced but I just don’t want to spend the money for the next owners of the house when I can live with however the kitchen comes out…after all, it will still be 100% better than it was and clean….I wonder if it will help if I just put the shop vac running in the middle of the floor when I do the finish sanding? At least the airlock is doing it’s job to keep the dust in the kitchen…but it will be tested Thursday….I’m sore…..
Why isn’t it the 50 repub senators fault?
Well…you know, this bullshit that it is Biden’s and the dems fault that voting rights legislation hasn’t passed the senate is starting to piss me off…after all, not one damn repub senator has even made any comment that they would work with the dems to protect voting rights…so why isn’t it the 50 repub senators fault? But no, the media is just looking for any way to show the Biden is a failure…they can’t deal with the fact that Biden has brought a calm to government and they don’t get all of the easy stories the idiot trump gave them…and they really don’t want to hold the repubs responsible since they may be back in the majority next year and that would limit their access…and they just don’t care that they are complicit in the failure of our democracy…not a damn one of them cares about any of that, they just want a horse race that they can report on for clicks…and I’m sure Ben Bradlee is spinning in his grave right now with how shitty the editors of the major newspapers have become…they have no ethics or morals or any hint of concern for our democracy and with that they are going to kill it….I think we need to take to the streets like the 60’s and flood Manchin and Sinema with a million people who care about voting rights and this country…they sure don’t…geez…
Not a bad winter so far….
Well…as I sit here finishing my coffee before I get to the kitchen, the thought came to me that this has been a pretty good winter so far…we’ve had some snow that hasn’t been bad to shovel and I just looked at the weather and, while it’s going to be cold for the next week, there is not a lot of snow in the forecast for the rest of the month…maybe a couple of days with snow showers but that is about it…and that only leaves about 6 weeks where we can potentially get some big lake effect snow storms….but, if they set up, we could get feet of snow so I guess I shouldn’t be happy yet….one strange thing with how cold it’s been out here is that the lake ice is at the lowest in almost 20 years…and I do need to get out to Lake Michigan to take a look at the shore ice and wander around on it a bit…I do need to get a new phone so I can take photos again without dragging my tablet with me…okay, back to work….