In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Not you Jack - everyone! is getting more done than I am.But I'm also on a few timetables I have to meet, so I really do need to speed up.
That's good to hear that it's not me. I'll just tell you what I told my team lead at the old job... "Do yourself a favor and don't compare anyone else to me or you're just going to frustrate yourself. Take your next best employee and stack them all up against number 2."
You'll get to it. Just stay positive. I had a major setback tonight that really puts a damper on all of the work done so far, but I'm not going to let it kill me until spring.
I'll get to that later...
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I have a dental question for you ... how do you know if you have an abscessed tooth? I have a tooth that's very mildly sensitive to chewing pressure. It's not anywhere near bad, but it's not entirely normal either.
Not sure. My dental situation is unique to the point that we didn't even know that I still hadn't had any cavities for sure until I specifically asked the dentist to look for them. My problems were so far beyond what is normal that we don't tend to look at normal things.
I've actually never heard the word "abscess" used when diagnosing any of my problems. It was just time for the teeth to go when they did. Several of them putting me in pretty bad pain 24/7 for weeks or even months before I took care of it. (Either on my own or with dental expertise).
I would think that mild pressure would be the beginnings of one, or at least something to be concerned with. In my case, that never got any better and only eventually got worse. I wouldn't wait on it if I were you. What might be a very small problem if you catch it early could end up a much larger one.
I'd be a smartass right now and say "ask me how I know", but you already know the answer to that question.
Good luck, whatever it is. I truly feel your pain.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I blow thru things but only to about the 80% level. Nothing is ever fully done; and sooner or later it needs to be re-done and/or completed. I keep thinking ... when I get more time I can get this truly finished ... but that time never seems to come. This house is too big for us. When mom lived with us it made sense, but when she passed away it got to be one or two rooms too big. But by then the prices had gone up ... hubby wanted to know if we could finda smaller place quite a few years ago, so I dipped my toes into the RE market and told him the sad truth ... that we could find one smaller, but not cheaper! So here we are, until we commit to a BIG move ... like, out of county of even out of state.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
For whatever reason, my efforts have been just creeping along the last few weeks, even though the weather has cooled down about 15F. I FEEL busy, but when I look at how much I've gotten done, it's not much.
Maybe my 'busy-ness' feeling is because I have to deal with a lot of details with the things I'm doing? Still, I need to kick it up into a higher gear.
What I would LIKE to do is to be able to check off a bunch of things that won't have to be re-addressed later. What that means, I think, it getting rid of a bunch of big useless items and also re-organizing.
I looked around the house and realized that it looks like the house is being "worked on" but it isn't "working for" us. The furniture, the setup, doesn't promote the things we want or need to do; it's just what accumulated over the years and how we managed to fit in-between things. So I need to put my thinking cap on and re-imagine what this place could do for us, and also (like I said) shut off a room or two so that it's not so hard to keep clean... this is an incredibly dusty neighborhood!
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Speaking of which... SIX, you truly do seem energized by crisis. Still, the emotional highs and lows must be tiring!
Yeah. It's all pretty tiring. Not emotions so much though... more like instinctual impulses more than anything else. I'm basically a cave man with a high vocabulary at this point.
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I have a question, sort of inspired by my revelation about our house .... when your home repairs and maintenance are no longer an urgent urgency, how do you plan to re-configure your home to work for you? The related question, which I already asked, was: What would you LIKE to do with your time? I think you have a game-related software project to work on, but do you have any other projects/ plans/ hobbies?
Well first, I should point out that you're asking yourself the right questions and thinking about making the right decisions, IMO.
Checking off things that you can do once and have a very low likelihood of having to re-do any time soon is a great idea. Especially if you don't find yourself in a position like mine where 6 out of 10 things you'd like to just snap your finger and have magically finished are emergencies.
I can say from my own experience that getting rid of shit you don't use, especially BIG SHIT is a huge plus. I do think that if you stay true to your de-cluttering efforts that over time you're going to look back and realize that it was more than clutter... especially if you have a house that is "too big" and that extra room has just become a place to store extra shit that you don't need.
Don't get me wrong... I'm sure it's nice stuff, but if you're not using it than it's just shit and needs to go. Except for a box or two of sentimental stuff and perhaps a large piece or two with real sentimental value (even better if you can incorporate them into your every day life in a useful way), I would work on getting rid of anything that you don't use regularly that you haven't even pulled out in the last 2 years for any reason. In the mean time, I'd make it a rule that if yo
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As for my house repair side of things, what I had feared with the door situation is the reality. My friend said "don't worry about it. you worry too much."
He's usually right. This time I shouldn't have listened. The opening is too small for any standard size door (goddamned Uncle Bob). There's no way to open it large enough for a standard door. I can't exactly raise the roof. Even before the settling occurred on the far side, this door opening isn't enough for an 80" door. I need a 78" door. My local store doesn't even carry them online. Home Depot has them, but you have to have them delivered to the store or your home ahead of time and can't just go there and pick them up on a whim.
It's November 4th. We ran out of time. I'm just going to have to try to seal everything up with plastic for now and put it on my spring to-do list. I may even seal it up so I can't even access the back door until the spring. This will be extremely unfortunate if we have a heavy snow season since there is no walkway to shovel from my garage to the front door.
Oh well...
Cold tomorrow, but decent on Wednesday. I've got my work cut out for me weatherproofing everything on what is likely to be the last decent day we have here in 2019.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I'm going to try the Great Stuff fix on my snowblower tire. Just found out that my only available option for replacement tires on it are a 2 pack of "maintenance free airless tires" for $115 bucks, which makes one wonder why they aren't originally installed on a goddamned unit that costs $500 in the first place and I got for $270 new. I'm not paying more than 1/3 of what I paid for the whole damned thing for new tires.
I saw a new method for doing this that makes a ton more sense than how the other guy said to do it for the spreader tire that requires pulling the stem out of the innertube. Stem tools are cheap, but apparently not easy to come by these days unless you want to order them online. Both Walmart and my local auto parts store have them for online order, but not in the store. Supposedly you can just do it with a pair of needle nose pliers. I actually know that I have one somewhere, although I didn't know what it was when it came in a huge lot of 300 tools I bought years ago on ebay. I might luck out and find it in my garage.
The guy who did it for his own snowblower did an update video 2 years later and it still works. I just got 2 cans of Great stuff for $5 the other day on sale. $2.50 sure beats $115.
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The lady who runs the mah jong group and a couple of side mah jong games is driving me nuts. Called me last night and said I'm not going in on Tuesday as I started coughing again and we all heard her. Then this morning I get a call saying that she is coming in.
It is like make up your mind but then you don't get to b&tch that you are sick. But I can't say that as over the last couple of weeks she has threatened to throw me out of the group because some of the others are complaining about when I play. So, I have to play NICE. Ugh!
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Did you beat her badly and she's taking it out on you?
Sounds like she's the alpha dog of the group, and probably a crappy one at that.
You come off as a nice person with a lot of wit here. Maybe it's time you bump her from that seat.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-04/does-a-rain-free-o
ctober-signal-a-return-to-drought-in-california
According to the National Weather Service, it was warmer than average in most places in Southern California in October, except in the Antelope Valley. El Niño and La Niña are in neutral this year, but most of the rain in the Los Angeles region comes later in the season, and 60% to 70% of that is borne by atmospheric rivers, which stream moisture from the tropical Pacific into California like a fire hose. “And there are no good predictors for those,” Patzert said.
There are many factors in California’s water picture, and it’s too early to call the game, Patzert said, but “it’s the first quarter right now and the Santa Anas are ahead 28-0.”
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Quote:because some of the others are complaining about when I play. So she says? Do you believe her?
Originally posted by Brenda:
The lady who runs the mah jong group and a couple of side mah jong games is driving me nuts. Called me last night and said I'm not going in on Tuesday as I started coughing again and we all heard her. Then this morning I get a call saying that she is coming in.
It is like make up your mind but then you don't get to b&tch that you are sick. But I can't say that as over the last couple of weeks she has threatened to throw me out of the group because some of the others are complaining about when I play. So, I have to play NICE. Ugh!
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Quote:So, what else does she do that's so annoying?
Originally posted by Brenda:
The lady who runs the mah jong group and a couple of side mah jong games is driving me nuts. Called me last night and said I'm not going in on Tuesday as I started coughing again and we all heard her. Then this morning I get a call saying that she is coming in.
It is like make up your mind but then you don't get to b&tch that you are sick.
Quote:Confused here. How is it that she "runs" the games? Does she host them at her place? Does she maintain a schedule? Does she supply the tiles? Does she collect dues? Bring food and drinks?
But I can't say that as over the last couple of weeks she has threatened to throw me out of the group
I mean, I was the "coffee person" at work which meant I collected the dues and bought the supplies and bought new coffee-maker when the old one crapped out but there was a set of responsibilities along with that. I would never say I was "the Scrabble person" at work because it just depended on who dragged out the Scrabble board and rounded up another player or two or three.
Quote:How can someone play NOT "nice"? Aside from not crowing every time you win or making nasty remarks about other people's playing or being a sore loser, what else are you supposed to do? Let other people win?
because some of the others are complaining about when I play. So, I have to play NICE. Ugh!
I guess I just don't understand the dynamics.
But now that yo have a place of your own, is there anything preventing you from hosting your own mahjong games?
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:All VERY good advice! But it will be hard convincing hubby that open shelves (including bookshelves) are dust-catchers. He LOVES open shelving because he had them at work and everything was viewable (he's tall). I keep reminding him ... but it doesn't seem to stick ... that he worked in a double-HEPA filtered positive pressure room. Dust wasn't problem for him, unless it came in a very dusty computer case.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Re home remodeling / reorganizing ... everything I've read said ... think about what you do day to day ...
BUT - what if, for example, you don't have a kitchen that lends itself to cooking. So you don't cook, day to day. But you would cook, if you could.
Why remodel and reproduce all the same limitations of your current space by reproducing what you now do day to day?
I've read a few really good organizing tips however and come up with a few myself:
a place for everything
store it where you used it
keep everything you use daily out in plain sight
pull-out drawers below waist level, cupboards above
wide drawers to avoid having to open a lot of them to find something
open shelves are freaking dust-catchers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/t-magazine/kitchen-organization.htm
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kitchens "Bennett believes that all cookware falls under the four pillars of “prep, cook, serve, store” “PREP” includes tools like mixing bowls, her mortar and pestle, a scale and a measuring glass, while the “COOK” drawer is full of pots and pans. Items for serving — plates, bowls and glasses — are in the cupboard, her resealable containers are all stacked in a drawer of their own, and never shall the four ever meet.
keep bedrooms spare
Understand about not reproducing the limitations of the current place with a new setup. That kind of gets into a metaphysical projection ... what WOULD we being doing if we had the time/space? (Besides maintaining the house, I mean!) Have to take into account our interests but also our declining physical capabilities ... woud not commit to restoring an old car top to bottom unless I had a LOT of time because everything would go very slowly. So probably mostly smaller projects.
But first, I think, is de-cluttering and re-organizing. It's impossible to clean or get anything done if everything is everywhere. Think about how to make current tasks more time-efficient. Once time-pressure is reduced we can think about options.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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