In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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I've seen "Demolition Man" but I don't remember much of it. Might just slightly remember the bathroom bit.
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Got everything done in the rain and that includes a lousy morning at mah jong. Couldn't break a 1,000 points. Finished with over 800. Almost had winds & dragons twice but couldn't get rid of tiles.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I've seen "Demolition Man" but I don't remember much of it. Might just slightly remember the bathroom bit.
While he was trying to figure out how to wipe his butt, he let out a cuss word or two and a machine on the wall was fining him for swearing in public. He walked up to it and unleashed a ton of cuss words to get a wad full of paper for the bathroom.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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I had another 8 foot limb on my roof from that fucking tree today. Now it's right in the middle of their lawn. We haven't had any storms or even really any wind, so that must have been a broken branch from up in the tree that finally fell down. I don't know when that happened, as I never heard nothing.
Already filled up a trash bin with stuff mostly from the garage after they picked it all up, so I'm already at 2 of 3 cans full with a week to go. I'll have just enough to put in another bag of regular house trash between now and then, so I should be good. Any more dehoarding will have to go in that 3rd bin for later.
A lot of the stuff I got rid of today was light fixtures and faucets I know I would never put in my house. Saved a really nice kitchen faucet though, and I know I would have installed that in the kitchen instead of buying one if I remembered I had that. That's the one going in there if the one I bought craps out on me. That came from rich people, and it's probably a $400 kitchen faucet. Also threw out some stuff from the old car I've been holding onto for god knows why, along with all the trash from the bathroom remodel like the old metal in-wall medicine cab.
More room for my car than I've had in years after just about 3 hours worth of work out there today. I've really got to get somebody over here to help me bring in that really nice leather recliner my neighbor gave me last year before it's not so nice anymore. I was thinking about attempting that on my own, but I just had to call in a replacement diabetes sensor just the other day for falling off while I was doing work, and this one is only 2 days old and waterlogged with sweat. I'm afraid I'll knock that thing off for sure if I try wrestling with that oversized one-seater on my own. Plus, every door on the way to bring it in is finished now, and I don't want to risk screwing up the paint job because I'm being impatient.
Replaced some of the old shitty fabric decorative box things I got from the dollar store on my curio cabinet with the much nicer plastic with rubber liner trays I'd gotten for the bathroom. The big ones were too big for anywhere in there, even the drawers, so I'll just make use of them somewhere else. I really don't have much going back into the bathroom now, so that shouldn't be a problem.
I'm about done for the day. That heat and humidity knocks it out of you pretty quickly.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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It was bothering me how awful the porch was looking as the main passthrough for all the crap between the storm and my bathroom work, so even though it's like a Dutch Oven in there right now, I wiped down the sills and floor and vaccummed up the oriental rug after dusting the TV and the fireplace heater. I think if I spent maybe an hour out there really cleaning it would look as good as when I painted it. Looks better than it did before the storm now though.
I'm looking at all those bags of clothes I've got to go through along with 2 loads spread out on my backup futon with no room to really put any of it and I'm itching to start tackling that job. But it's just hot and I don't want to deal with that right now. It's so much nicer in here after you've been outside for a while, but I don't like the idea of going through 6 bags worth of clothes until it cools off outside a bit.
I found the two large wall vents for the 2nd heat duct system that's been attached to nothing since I bought the place. I'm going to clean those up and get spray paint on them soon. One of them probably isn't going to see any use in a long time, but no reason not to put the other one up to cover up the nasty vent hole in the wall in the one room that's about 90% finished down there.
I believe I found all the circular ceiling vents too, so I'll clean those and spray them as well so I can finally get all of them put back up. And I found the 3 brand new oil-rubbed bronze ceiling fixtures that I bought on a great sale a long while back, so I can get those up in my bedrooms upstairs too.
And I've got the two bi-fold doors down in the basement. Not staged completely for paint yet, but just about.
So many little things to do too.
Not that I'm going out of my way to procrastinate getting the electric and plumbing I need to do done, but if I'm not going to jump right into that I might as well at least be doing something to keep the forward momentum going.
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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 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I've seen "Demolition Man" but I don't remember much of it. Might just slightly remember the bathroom bit.
While he was trying to figure out how to wipe his butt, he let out a cuss word or two and a machine on the wall was fining him for swearing in public. He walked up to it and unleashed a ton of cuss words to get a wad full of paper for the bathroom.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
I remember a little more now.
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Local station from Washington state is running "ID4".
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Local station from Washington state is running "ID4".
Like the movie???
I don't even know what that means, but I giggled.
Restless tonight... I pulled down a few boxes of things to start sorting through, and just kind of been cleaning my house. I really can't wait for it to cool off. I think today was the worst of it, though we wont' get much relief until Saturday. They just ended the Extreme Heat Advisory at midnight, but I'm not feeling that in my house right now. It's gross even with a fan on me. It was 80 on the 2nd floor at 1PM today, it's 82 up there 12 hours later.
I'm surprised I made it out in the garage and outside as long as I did today. Been drinking a ton of water to make up for that.
Well... It's going to cool off, but careful what you wish for. I'm seeing about half the days for the next 8 with thunderstorms, and most of the rest with rain. And it's still not getting below highs in the 80's while all that is going on.
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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 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Local station from Washington state is running "ID4".
Like the movie???
I don't even know what that means, but I giggled.
Restless tonight... I pulled down a few boxes of things to start sorting through, and just kind of been cleaning my house. I really can't wait for it to cool off. I think today was the worst of it, though we wont' get much relief until Saturday. They just ended the Extreme Heat Advisory at midnight, but I'm not feeling that in my house right now. It's gross even with a fan on me. It was 80 on the 2nd floor at 1PM today, it's 82 up there 12 hours later.
I'm surprised I made it out in the garage and outside as long as I did today. Been drinking a ton of water to make up for that.
Well... It's going to cool off, but careful what you wish for. I'm seeing about half the days for the next 8 with thunderstorms, and most of the rest with rain. And it's still not getting below highs in the 80's while all that is going on.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Yes, the movie and you are the second person to ask me that.
"Independence Day" that old movie with Adam Baldwin in it as a Major.
Stay hydrated for sure SIX.
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