In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Not a particularly productive day here. After stalling out most of the afternoon I did manage to get more stuff down from the attic for me to sift through.
I went out to the garage and managed to finish cleaning off my shelving units and throw a bunch of stuff out. Made room for all of my good power gardening tools as well as two of the three that don't currently work and would be quite a bit better than the ones I have if I fix them. Since they're not in the way anymore, I can take a bit more time to decide if I want to junk them or not.
Almost to the point that I've got my work bench back now.
Got a few boxes I need to take down to Goodwill again.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Well, the batteries in my remote just died and I am not going out this evening to get more. So no tv for me tonight.
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Sounds like everyone is making progress more or less. Been kinda stalled out here chasing after stupid stuff. Rounding up a handyman to repair the stucco that the plumbers broke open to replace the waste pipes, and our blu-ray DVD player broke. It's got to be at least 10 years old, but they will still repair it if I ship it to Menlo Park (all things considered cheaper than buying new) so that's what I've been in touch with the mfr about.
Fortunately my nose is making enuf progress that I can sleep thru the night mostly, so I've been back to taking puppywuppy out for her AM walk and then yardwork before it gets too hot, then kitchenwork until its time to start on the house projects.
We started prepping the walls for daughter's room with a little sanding, but I thought to get the lead check swabs and by golly it looks like the first coat of paint has lead in it. So I halted the sanding and got some first-class info on what to do next: wipe the walls with trisodium phosphate to pick up any lead paint pigment that may have powdered off over the years, seal everything with sealer (I was going to to that anyway) and then paint. So we got a little hitch in our plans, and today was lunch with dear daughter which set things back one more day.
She'd been bugging me to try this Mexican restaurant that looks like a real dive from the outside, I was ready to try a taco place but, well, what the hell we went to questionable-looking place. And wouldn't you know, it was quite charming on the inside, and it specialized in what I was looking for, which is fish! So I ordered a fillet (probably tilapia) which came pan-fried in an egg batter topped with shrimp and crab in a mildly-spicy sauce, with rice (gave that to dear daughter) beans, and salad. From what little I can taste I think it was well-prepared and I suspect that if I COULD taste it more, it would be really good. Then for dinner I had some leftover Greek-style salad from yesterday and topped it with a little leftover tuna so dinner was pretty good too!
Wish I was making progress like you, SIX! Even on your "bad" days you do pretty good!
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Wow... you'r BluRay player is 10 years old. Geez... I've been outside of the new tech that long already, huh? Well, I guess it's not so new anymore.
Yeah. Careful with that lead. Can't be too safe.
Your daughter was right about the Mexican food joint. She still would have been if it had been a dirty hole in the wall with a dirty bathroom. Back when I used to eat out, those were my restaurants of choice. It seemed that the smaller and danker the joint, the better the food was. Granted, that's just the Chicago and south suburbs experience and might not be the case everywhere, but I do believe I've had some of the finest Mexican food on offer in America inside some of them. Italian and Mexican food are my favorites, and let's just say that I've never found an Italian joint that compares to these hole-in-the-wall Mexican food joints.
Yeah. Making some progress every day. Sometimes I have to force myself pretty hard. Other days I go all out and give it a good 10 to 12 hours. Wish I could get more even keel about it all.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wow... you'r BluRay player is 10 years old. Geez... I've been outside of the new tech that long already, huh? Well, I guess it's not so new anymore.
Yeah. Careful with that lead. Can't be too safe.
Your daughter was right about the Mexican food joint. She still would have been if it had been a dirty hole in the wall with a dirty bathroom. Back when I used to eat out, those were my restaurants of choice. It seemed that the smaller and danker the joint, the better the food was. Granted, that's just the Chicago and south suburbs experience and might not be the case everywhere, but I do believe I've had some of the finest Mexican food on offer in America inside some of them. Italian and Mexican food are my favorites, and let's just say that I've never found an Italian joint that compares to these hole-in-the-wall Mexican food joints.
Yeah. Making some progress every day. Sometimes I have to force myself pretty hard. Other days I go all out and give it a good 10 to 12 hours. Wish I could get more even keel about it all.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Batteries in the remote for the HD box were the ones that died. With my tv being so old I can't do much with it without the box. I managed to watch the news then when I wanted to turn it over to watch M*A*S*H, I accidently got Much Music which is the equivalent when it first aired of your MTV. Now it also runs movies. So my tv is stuck on that channel until I get new batteries.
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Having a really productive day so far here. Another huge box already packed up in the car to take to goodwill. Another trash bin full. Got some more larger stuff staged in the garage to put out on the street as soon as somebody picks up the stuff already left out there. Got all of my change from various containers ready to go to the bank too, probably $150 or so in there. Going to do that all on Monday while I'm out for a haircut when the bank is open.
Also got all of my tool boxes out to the garage to clean up and sort through except for the smaller one inside my house with stuff I would most often use. About 7/8ths of the tool bench is free to use now too... I just have to get around to finishing the front stairs that are in the way of it so I can actually use it. Well... I suppose I can use it to paint the stairs now and not sit on the ground while I'm doing that. 
Done working on heavier stuff and/or things requiring going out to the garage for now. It's another hot day. It's going to cool off again on Monday.
Now back to the digital hoard. I've got a lot of various CDs, marked and unmarked that I want to throw out. Going to make ISO files of anything that's important and just pitch the rest. In the mean time, just going to do a few loads of laundry for clothes I'm either going to use for packing protection or goodwill, and I've got about 4 boxes of documents to go through and pitch whatever isn't important too. :)
Got to get a lot done this week. I'm going to start helping my friend on his rental property next weekend so we can start bartering some work now that he's back from his vacation.
Hope you're all having a productive and/or enjoyable weekend.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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On the phone for half an hour with the support people for my cable company twice trying to help me reboot everything. Then I get off the phone with the guy and it starts working.
Still made an appointment for a technician to come and have a look at the remote and maybe replace it.
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Sad that everything is so dependent on a remote these days. The old boxes used to function with or without the remote.
Gross..... The weather made a turn for the warmer. Not going to get that cool down that we expected. Not going to be extremely terrible, but I might have to have that blower working a lot more than I wanted to if I want to maintain the cool in the house until it breaks sometime around next weekend.
It's not the highs during the day that sucks, but the high lows at night that really do. Low tonight and Monday night now are 68 degrees. Blech....
Oh well...
On to some real nitty gritty stuff with the house purge. Paperwork. Actually was able to pitch about half of it already because I had it all organized by year. Can probably get rid of half of the rest, but it's going to take some time to sift through. Really missing my fire pit that I threw out right now. This stuff has some pretty sensitive info on it. I'm going to see if somebody has a shredder and won't mind me spending a half hour with it.
Got rid of a crazy amount of stuff today. Hopefully tomorrow is as productive.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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It is but that is the state of technology today.
Yeah, sensitive stuff you do need a shredder Six.
I am doing nothing much tomorrow as tonight I got some recycling out and yesterday night too.
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Yeah... We're talking taxes, credit card stuff, all of the things that I'm never going to put out on the street as-is. Finally put shredders behind me when I got the firepit, but it's gone now.
Yanno, I just remembered I've got a webber grill that's filthy and needs to be cleaned anyhow. Maybe I'll take care of that tomorrow. I haven't grilled in about 5 years, but it's something I haven't been able to part with. Glad I've still got it.
This is like a treasure hunt with the DVDs and CDs. I used to burn EVERYTHING. I'm finding a bunch of stuff I probably lost on those hard drives. Throwing out all of the tv shows and movies since they're so low quality compared to what you can get today, but the music is golden.
I just figured out how to use a thumbdrive to create a personal cloud with a pretty sweet router my old man gave me a few years back. Going to start loading that up with my music once I get it organized and I can actually do work around the house with some tunes instead of being in my own head all day. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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