more work photos

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The tiles pissed me off, so I stopped trying to work with them. My sister was equally peeved and quit. Well, my brother-in-law gets them now.

Here is Jeff Bell. He does lots of things, but primarily installs and repairs garage doors. After his solo effort of loading the drywall sheets, he drove to my sister's and he and I pulled them off. He showed me the faster, however a bit sloopy, way of measure-cutting sheets. It was about 5 minutes instead of 35. I think I will take the trade.

Here you see him talking with my neice.

This is the same view the next day --- a wall, installed by Mike and Dustin.

The brown sections is the new insulation.

Mike and Dustin installing the wall and discovering that the studs are not 24" on center.

This is a problem area near the front door.

My sister and her "helpful" dog cleaning up after mudding the walls.

My white arm. My face was so sprinkled also.

Yes, the ceiling is now whiter.

Power painter ... need experience to use it well.

day long and hard

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I think I can rest at last.

isn't it ironic

when wording comes crashing together?

Slutsky? "Behind the pursuit"
Does not remember ... no suspects.

Had argument with boyfriend, didn't go home with him, but two other men.
She would regret if she told anyone. OK, she doesn't remember.

I will take Windows advice

Sleep.
I think I will.

more bad luck

Well, putting up drywall should have been fast and simple. As it turns out, the studs in the basement (perhaps the whole house) are not 24 inches on center. Oh, no. That would be up to code and simple. So, we had to cut nearly every piece to match. The room was 13' x 24' with many outlets that had to be cut.

I was so hoping that I would have mudded the drywall today and that tomorrow I could have painted. I tried to put up some ceiling tiles, but they too proved too smart or tough for me. I nearly pulled a "hulk smash" in anger. The tiles were very tough to put in, especially the slide puzzle feature on the last row.

I was shocked twice due to poor grounding.

There were two guys who came to close off a wall connecting one room to the kitchen. They were fairly fast and did an OK job. The studs there were also wrong. Hmmm, methinks it was a drunk architect or crew.

I am tired, stiff, sore. We had to make a run to Menards for one last piece of drywall. They cut it for us. Bruce, the cutter, used a box knife that was falling apart. I thought I was the dangerous one! Some other fool there had six 12' drywall sections loaded on his pick up truck. They dangled out the end. On top of the pieces, they put a new door. I would expect "crash".

My sister has the worst luck!

What fills my days

Well, we started to finish the ceiling in the office room, but halted. More special cutting, more negotiating and a late start. We got up the support beams, but not a bit of the ceiling itself.

Jessica painted primer on the new dry wall after she and Jennifer sanded it. Logan helped by taping off the molding before we painted. We moved most everything out of the room so that it could be painted, dried, painted and ready for the carpet installers.

That should have been the day.

Diane was worried about a section of the wood paneling along the back wall. It was intact, but was messy with mold. More panels suffered the same fate, all along the wall, mold. It was not on the East wall much, but the West wall had some. Diane called for the removal of the paneling. The drywall, most of which was moldy had to go. So it was a lot more work.

That means that we have to put up half wall in the entire basement rec room of drywall. We then have to paint that room, the stairwell down, all before the carpet installers on Wednesday. What a fun week, right?

Lily, the dog, was not especially helpful.

+ on a positively charged note, I found out what caused my mild conductivity with places; my cellphone and keys that I prefer to carry on me.

Actually, I put Jessica's name here.

Welcome to Diane's messy, unlucky life.

it was tempting, but

Date: 06/22/2008 - Sender:
Subject: bomb cosh bee

I didn't read the message and instead marked it as spam. I know, the subject clearly lead me to strongly believe it was legitimate.

short storm with rain, wind, hail

There was a mess, but no tornado.

What Jim does

picture of Jesus, drawn by James

Costs

The storm and flood damage might be $800 million for Indiana. That's staggering, but when you view Fort Wayne's cost for the Harrison Square Project, which from a different kind of storm with fecal matter, it sort of puts it in perspective.

This blogger seems excited about the project.

What does a 9 year-old bunny look like

This is ancient Flopsy who is a miniature. I keep wondering if he will change back into Pettigrew or the like.

Hey, ladies

Get funky!

Thank you ladies for a great lunch! What a peculiar day all around.
I got to meet my lady friends at a strip club. They were celebrating their promotions. They each got a table dance and they splurged and got me one.

Hmm. It will be a day going down in infamy.
Here, one woman is pushing out her breasts to make sure that you notice them.

Congratulations ladies! I cannot help but be honored.

Keith's "wonderful" regifting

Here is Jeffy's back and butt. If you own a cell phone with picture messaging, you might get this. It will be "bigger" than Rick Rolling. Jeffy should be so proud.

"You got azz'd" or something like that.
"He got yo back (side)?"

pumping out my pay

I have to pay at the pump, but I can't spend more than $50 with Visa or $75 on Mastercard. So if they prices go higher, you guarantee that people can't fill up their tanks because of this rule. Uh, that will need an update, me thinks.

after the storm

How I spent a couple of hours

My sister called me for advice and help. She needed the help.

Look, a missing wall. Ta-da!
A leaky pipe saturated and rotted the insulation, drywall, 2x4 s support beams, wood paneling. It was a mess.
The cement walls will have to be treated.

I used to do a little

but a little wouldn't do it, so a little got more and more. I just keep tryin' to stay lively when I need to, so that I don't fall dead on the floor. Coffee beans are OK, and not fattening. It's the hundred grams of sugar, milk, syrups and the like that make coffee a questionable choice. I drink mine black+ with sugar.

+ "Like I like my men", from Airplane spoken by an upper-class child. I don't do men, so I included this just to beat someone else to the punch (line)

detain their rights

The terrorists want to disrupt our way of life, right?
They are generally more interested in blowing up each other, right?
So when we take the detainees, we feed them more than they would get under their military, give them many comforts that they don't have, and then the government that are battling (United States) has so many lawyers, they get one of those too?

OK. If you are a lawyer, want to represent a detainee, go ahead, but ... you are then required by become a citizen of that detainee's country. If you don't like that policy, then stop being a lawyer.

That is beyond fudged up! What a crock of bullcrap! I don''t mind the citizens obtaining lawyers, but they are NOT being held by a civil court ... it is a military issue of a foreign fighter who likely killed more of his own countrymen than US soldiers. The fact that he might have info on more important targets superceeds rights in this case which may not be the Bill of Rights offered to US citizens in a US court of law.

ACLU, Jessie Jackson strong. Where we often pick the wrong battle so that we aren't forgotten. Clearly this armed robber was not given proper service at McDonald's while robbing it, because his is black. Then, they clearly chose a colder, older hamburger to give him as he fled the scene, knocking over an elderly couple. These are clearly racially motivated crimes against this four-time felon.

Mahkis, you come over and play with me?

I, of course went over to play with Charlie. Charlie had a bit of a long day. He wasn't awake for long.

Hulk (was a) Smash!

It beat the loose-fitting pants off the first one. It was a little better than OK with hints about Hulk if you liked the character:

Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, ending theme to TV series, purple pants and more.

I would suggest if you like CGI hero movies, watch this one.

helping my sister move was hell

She grabbed me early, kept me late and wasn't organized or prepared. I should have known, but I got surprised by it. There wasn't enough moved out of the house/garage to make a measurable difference. In the course of the day I was nearly struck twice by people. I thought the 17' U-Haul was pretty visible, but apparently not.

To add to the mix, trains and difficult turns and my sister scheduling a flooring inspector on the same day. I guess I just don't get the lack of timing. I love family, but the disorganization and lack of punctuality is a bit much for me. It finished a day after a night of 2 hours sleep, not in a row.

She didn't move the whole house, just some stuff to storage, some to Salvation Army.

! I forgot. The U-Haul was foul smelling from cigarettes. It made for a long smelly ride.

Not what I would call a prime fishing area

I drove by 80/20, Inc. on the way back from Warsaw and saw two flakes fishing at the water hole beside the building. To be fair, I don't know that there aren't fish there, but I doubt they would stock the small pond. I wonder where Phil and Ted went on their break?

watch what you do around kids

"Yeah. It was like Uncle Bob. Yeah, he was drinking and he like walked" [Emma proceeds to walk towards the house, bump her head squarely on the forehead and fall down on her rump then rolls onto her back. She doesn't cry, she was imitating what Uncle Bob did], "and then boof, then he fell down."

Yep, you don't want Uncle Bob stories about you floating around, haunting you.

baseball

When my father and I tried this ... we were always too close. I split my lip and face lots of times. I grew to hate baseball with all that remained of my face.

Storms

Small videos of Sunday storm in Fort Wayne

my trip to South Bend

Was simply wasted.
My day wasn't, as I got to see friends on my way back. Yeah for me!

please help

I am Robin Williams and am living on the West Coast of American, namely Beverly Hills in Los Angeles. I have been forced into working for a rich family who insists that I appear as an older woman. I am virtually their slave and servant, catering to their every need. I have millions of dollars from my entertainment work, but the bank cannot recognize me while I am dressed as an old woman.

If you will send me your bank account information, I will be able to escape from Beverly Hills to a safer area. I will gladly pay you 20% of my bank account from which I will draw funds.

It looks just as legitimate, right?

So what language do you speak & spell?

So, your last name is Williams, you were in Kuwait, lived in Ivory Coast and write in an Asian language. So, do you speak many languages?

Why conspiracy theories sell well

If you have insufficient evidence to a question you still want to answer, you piece together all that you know. Anti-government conspiracies work because the US government has a history of questionable answers.

"I did not have relations with that woman." there are more, but this is fine for my example.

Imagine the well spring of aliens and government cover ups. Why is it believable? The government lied too many times to be credible. At Roswell, they reported a UFO crash landing, then it wasn't that it was a weather balloon, then fifty years later, they detail it was testing high altitude parachuting and survivability of the pilot. So three statements, none of which match ... does the government lie?

"There is no Area 51." OK, then later, hard drives were lost ... data stolen from Los Alamos Labs in famed Area 51. So, there isn't, there is ... the government is incredible.

Oliver Stone had to sue the government for them to release the JFK video. Video tapes showing the jet crashing into the Pentagon were all confiscated for evidence, but only one video was released to the public. Again, the government makes itself incredible by what it does. It fosters distrust.

The election of Bush over Gore, people felt disenfranchised, elsewhere elected officials getting away with crime and more. Conspiracy theories "work" because people feel weak, powerless, and know they are given lies. Whether the disinformation like Roswell was for National Security (working on the ejection seat and parachute for spy plane) or like those used by the CIA in Cuba during the Bay of Pigs, the United States government needs to stop lying.

It will be the undoing of America if the citizens completely distrust the government. If the reports of UFO activity are returned with blackened out sections, that feeds the fear, the distrust. Conspiracies work because people distrust authority naturally, and the government isn't forthcoming naturally.

The use of propaganda to get the US into the war in Iraq doesn't help America have a whole ton of faith in the government as well. This goes beyond the President, but the whole of government. I'd rather see America stick around rather than be purged due to stupid lying on the part of those in power.

The US government should help itself and lie less. A trusting people are easier to govern rather than increasing numbers of factions.

one quick note on homosexuality

So many people rally against homosexuality for any number of reasons. I know that many men, especially, feel phobic about gays running around. Those same guys who HATE homosexuals, delight in seeing girls with each other ... moreover the dark sick thoughts of bi-sexual incestuous twins. Yuck! Read those words, then decide if seeing the Olsen twins having each other is as attractive as you thought. If the guys are against homosexuals, then they would see lesbian sex go bye-bye. Oh, you want lesbians, but not gays? Well, that's the trouble with objections to homosexuality. If it's a religious thing, then you can't really enjoy two women with each other. That is a sin.

I will note that I regard marriage as a religious ceremony that should be one woman, one man. If you get married by the church you STILL have to file legal paperwork for it to be legal in the state. Therefore, the marriage is a religious ceremony only. If homosexuals want the same, then a legal process of civil union is fine. If you thought the divorce rate was high for heterosexuals, imagine the stats if you let all couples marry and divorce. Divorce (dissolution of civil unions included) rates would jump from nearly fifty percent to seventy-five maybe.

The rates speak more on individuals than on the institution of marriage. I do, or at least 64% of the way I do. You see, then I have a back out clause that I said I do before I said I don't. I voted for it before I voted against it.

Slide it off center

Well, I don't like slanted news, but FOX might start winning me over if other news stations don't captivate my attention better. Granted, FOX news is Conservative Republican slanted, much so. I will also argue that it seems to try to rally people, every now and then, to really fixable problems. FOX isn't perfect, I won't list my objections, but note that it might be a bit better than Liberal chaos theory.

MR might be right about Bill O' Reilly being right sometimes.

It's going to be a tough millennium!

One Nation, under Jihad

Whoa! OK. I see that there are more domestic threats than I knew. I thought the heads-in-the-sand religious sects who preach incest and child rape were the worst lot. Well, at par with them are the Jihadist school board members who don't mind choosing textbooks that propagate the Islam we have all grown to fear and loathe. I am disgraced by many people in power who pull fast ones and more over who corrupt the weak. I disagree with teaching Creative or Intelligent Design, but by golly a scarier threat is teaching Jihadist Islam to young and weak minded fools or children who are taught to believe and respect teachers even if they are wrong.

Remember boys and girls, Allah (Big Brother) is watching you and knows you will do what is right, which is fight the infidels who gave you the freedom of speech and assembly. Fight that bill of rights!

America, we need to talk! If you read the passage in any religious text, "it's ok and expected to kill infidels or non-believers", put down the book and reason out the situation. Would God demand the slaughter of infidels? If you read such a passage, you might want to note that it is likely a new kid on the block. Islam ... younger than Christianity. Religious Western states sects (Mormons, etc.) are even newer. As the years pass by using only the old texts, many people get nuttier and nuttier.

If, however, enough people point out the "kill" [name target here] in religious doctrine, then maybe the world might see the fanatics and ruthless people for whom they are. Yikes!

How many Kurds are blowing up themselves for Allah? None.
How many Islamic Americans are blowing up themselves? None. While the Freeway Snipers were Islamic Jihadists, they didn't kill themselves.

Keep America great ... don't teach hate, don't teach slaughter. If you find these teachings, put an end to it.

I will note here that the teachers and school board members weren't beheaded, stoned to death, shot, imprisoned for life, or the like. I think in Saudi Arabia who whipped a rape victim, Syria who deported a teacher who named a Teddy Bear Muhammad, etc. would have promptly killed the people and found out facts some time later by accident.

Video (You Tube video)

I did it to myself?

Damn! I can't blame anyone else? Damn!
I'm in debt. (commercial video)

Hannity's America

Well, MR ought to be happy that I happened on this one. I agree that this country is the best country. I didn't like Hannity's approach to his guest. If you will not concede that this is the America is the best, I will have to get rough! Anyway, it was the typical ... if you don't agree with everything we say, then you are un-Patriotic, un-American, and siding with the terrorists. It was nice to be reminded that America donates the money money and supplies to other nations, often more is donated by citizens than by the country itself. It shows a defining character of many Americans.

Media complaint

The problem I have with the canned on-the-spot shows on networks (not just Fox) is that the guest is castrated and burned at the stake if they dare suggest a differing opinion. I'm waiting for "Blasphemer! Burn the witch at the stake!" or "Crucify him after feeding him to the lions after a painful gladiator battle!"

Is it possible that I have differing opinions?

Can I go on CNN and suggest that the war is progressing better than depicted?
Can I go on FOX and suggest that the parties are closer than they appear in the mirror?

I can, if I am willing to get tarred, feathered, and discredited as a cannibalistic psychotic with an undocumented decades-old delusion of grandeur. I would be falsely labeled as having communist and neo-nazi ties.

on finding that job

As well as the legitimate job offers, I weed through the dubious ones. The first step is, find the real company name, look on google for that name + scam. Most of them qualify for scam or MLM unachievable madness. First, build a client base by selling to family, friends, neighbors, your dog! Your fish sees the wonderful service and products your dog is getting and approaches you. Now you are a success because you don't have to market yourself. Then reality kicks in like an unwelcome guest and you remember that fish don't buy and dogs, faithful as they are, don't have cash.

Multi-level marketing, ah ... yes. It looks like a pyramid, smells like one, quacks like one -- I'm guessing pyramid regardless the protests. I am still looking, though the economy's downturn helps few people, especially those seeking jobs.

leaves and flower wetted by rain

While many regions got nastily hit with flooding, there is some good in rain.
Northern Indiana was spared some.

Finding criminal activity

Allen County

Fort Wayne