In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. I haven't been to a library in quite a while, but the last time I went they had the online system for the physical books. I know I've ordered them several times before. Maybe they've just used the same system they always had and added the digital book rentals to it too then.
I thought it was named after Steve Gutenberg.
You can't be motivated all the time. I know how it is to burn it.
Maybe some mental tricks are in order. Maybe commit to yourself that you'll spend 2 hours a week doing things that you've been putting off.
Doesn't matter which ones, or if you actually finish them in that time frame, but at least you're chipping away at them. Maybe writing up a to-do list of things you would do if you worked on them only 2 hours a week is what you could spend the first week on. 2 hours a week doesn't really sound like much, but one year from now that's 104 hours if you stick with it. Imagine what you could do right now if you spent 104 straight hours working on things.
I always find, without fail, that the hardest part about doing a job is starting it.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Yeah, my library just added the e-books to the regular catalogue. It will tell you what physical books are in and DVDs if there is one for a specific book along with the e-books.
Sorry about that. On that site I could find things like Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera along with 1984.
I know. I keep lists of things I have to do during the day when I am out.
I was going to do that yesterday. Spend an hour or so on it. I've got something else started that I should finish as well. That's my thing I get started on something then I realize I have other things that I should doing. Oh well, I will see when I get in today.
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Out and about on another beautiful day up here. Small things to do today when I am out.
Really need to send a message to a friend about her birthday which is Friday. I've got her present just have to see when she can fit it in.
Later peeps.
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All done for today. Had to go back out as I forgot something. Having a sit down now.
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Just working more on the bathroom and other things.
Today has mostly been a caulk and spackle day. Yuck. I hate both of them. 
Those quarter round trim pieces I put up against the vinyl plates to the shower are officially finished now. I'll do one more coat of paint on the face and jambs of the window, but that's more or less done. It probably doesn't need another coat, but since this is the bathroom I'm going to go ahead and do it anyhow. I painted the toilet paper holder, but that's probably going to need 2 more coats. Got a fan on it right now to speed drying along.
These little finishing touches just take so much time but they're really worth it in the end.
I started with some of the spackle out on the stairwell trim while I was waiting for things to dry since I already had it out, but it's nowhere near complete. I also filled in the two bad places that needed wood filler over there yesterday. I'll be caulking and spackling a whole day when I do that and the trim I put up mid-way on the walls in the basement room. That's for another day.
If I don't call it a day after finishing with the white paint, I may put one coat of the dark grey on the medicine cabinet and decorative shelf. That's all that remains to be painted for the bathroom after the white is done today, unless I make any egregious errors cutting out things for electric or hanging the two cabinets.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Housework sure piles up if I don't attend to!
Spent a couple of days in hospital with hubby after a planned operation, and a few days before that doing yardwork. So yesterday I spent all afternoon, I kid you not, doing dishes and cleaning up the kitchen. At least I patched my torn work shirt with a couple of iron on patches.
Today was all paperwork... making appts, filling out my ballot, writing up a menu and grocery list, following up on some Rx that went astray... Gotta go drop off my ballot (so many positions didn't have anyone worth voting for!) and pick up an Rx.
So much going on here and there, it's hard to keep track.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Ditto. 
Done with the white paint in the bathroom. Toilet Paper holder is installed and caulked in. Window is all finished and all the trim in there except for the baseboard is too.
Basically only 1 wall left to go with the electric and cabs. I'm just not going to button up the electric on the entry wall until I know I'm done working on it is all. I've already got the nice upgraded outlet/switch/plate since I bought for the whole house back when I got all that stuff.
Just the decorative shelf, the medicine cabinet and the shelf for the toilet cab left to paint. I don't think I'm going to do it tonight. I'm happy with what got tone today, along with the other stuff I got done outside of the bathroom. I'll have to try to find something to use the rest of the wood filler on before it goes bad. I'm sure there's something, but I'm done with all the things I intended to do with that batch.
No reason to bother showing any pictures today. Everything I got done today now looks like it did in those low-quality pics.
That's kind of an interesting thing about low quality cameras. You know your job is finished and done well when it looks better in real life than it does in the picture. Because up until you hit that point, the low quality pictures make everything look better than it actually is.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Damn... I forgot that I do have an immediate and near-immediate use for the rest of the wood filler. The medicine cabinet came with two obviously original holes at the top and bottom brace for screwing into the wall, but somebody put some new ones off center. I filled those after-market holes in before painting because I won't be using them. There were also dowels put in 2 holes each on the top and bottom, likely to hide screws that attached the tops to the sides, but one of them was missing. I just filled them all in and you won't see anything after it's painted.
Still working on the computer thing in the background. In a few days I should be to the point where I can see what happens if I try to install all of this on a Mac.
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Awesome...
Just finally got around to doing some investigating on measurements, and the original 4 screw holes in the back of the medicine cabinet are going to all drill right into solid wood behind that drywall. The same guy who did that horror show electric job appears to have built the hell out of the wall on the top and bottom when framing out a hole for the in-wall unit that was there before.
The width between the screws had me a little concerned since it's only 12" and I know at least the 2 studs there I can see are 16" on center. But because this unit is quite a bit taller than the old one, those screw holes are going to be right over horizontal 2x4's that were added in for a different purpose. That should be amazingly easy to install vs what I thought it might entail.
Getting that toilet cab where I want it is going to prove tricky though. Once I find out where the studs are back there, I'm going to have to do some good measurements and pre-drill all the pilot holes (pretty thick ones too).
Maybe I can ask my neighbor to come over one day and help hold it up while I screw it in. Not only am I going to have to get this thing lined up with those holes, but I'm also adding an electric box through the back of it that needs to all be lined up perfectly too.
I'm a little nervous about that step. I've never actually hung a cabinet before.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Doesn't matter which ones, or if you actually finish them in that time frame, but at least you're chipping away at them. Maybe writing up a to-do list of things you would do if you worked on them only 2 hours a week is what you could spend the first week on. 2 hours a week doesn't really sound like much, but one year from now that's 104 hours if you stick with it. Imagine what you could do right now if you spent 104 straight hours working on things.
I always find, without fail, that the hardest part about doing a job is starting it.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Amen, brother.
I use some of those mental tricks myself. List- making is important to me!
Another one is taking "before, during, and after" pictures, especially if irsa big project. I frame to photo to take in one meaningful portion at a time. That forces me to stay focused.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
I really need to get back into making lists. I used to have a list that was up on my computer every day of things to-do immediately, short-term goals and long-term goals. I also kept the list of "DONE" things at the bottom of it, since it's just a text doc and cutting and pasting stuff is quick. That was nice being able to look at all the things I'd already done vs. what still needed to be done.
I'm the exact same way about pictures myself, and I've really got to do something about my current situation regarding photos. My old tablet that I used to take pics on isn't working, and I'm using an ancient crap camera right now. Believe it or not, it's making me take a lot less pictures than I normally would. I believe until these last few months, my entire picture library just on this house alone is over 3,000 pics.
I agree with you on all of this. I believe it's very important to be able to go back and reflect on what you used to live with vs. what you've done for yourself because after the new becomes your new normal, it's easy to forget just how bad things were before and all of the awesome things that you've accomplished over time.
I REALLY can't wait to get this place done, and I plan on having a small collection of photos showing off the wreckage I started out with and where it will ultimately be. I'll probably just have some slideshows going on all the TVs through the house when I'm showing it all off.
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Trying to make my project worthwhile on an HD 1/10th the size is proving to be a bit more time consuming than I thought it would be.
Initial decisions were easy and huge. If you had only a 2TB drive you'd get about 90% of the content using 2.5TB less than the 5TB drive. But when you're getting to the end of it though and you're purging small things for small space savings, that seems to go on forever....
But doing that keeps me from having to make some difficult choices. I'll still have to make a few, but it won't be too bad after this reorg.
And really, doing this is just icing for small drives. It allows for it to be used on things with much lower specs, but it's also very easy to add the full thing with a 5 or 6TB drive attached to it after the fact. This backup will probably get some heavy use in the not too distant future once I get some of the real world things taken care of.
I really want to dehoard that small bedroom, which is half filled with clothes other people have given me over the years. And I probably could get rid of half of the clothes I owned before I took all of that in too. I can't even really get in there yet though because a bunch of bathroom stuff and the 2-step ladder I'm using to work in there is just kind of in the way of everything, so that's the next job after the bathroom is done. I'll probably have nothing left on the computer stuff to do for a while but long cloning processes, so that will be perfect for me to be doing all this other stuff in between.
It's getting late, but I hope to finish all of this before I go to bed so I can have the cloning process running while I sleep.
Once that's done, I get to crack open an old Mac Mini and see what its guts look like.
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