Timely Demise of Sanity

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Simple photos

The last several days I have been helping my sister work on her house. I am exhausted and stiff. The good news is that I helping her and that I have learned how to do things and how not to do things.

Don't have cell phone and keys in pocket around outlets or lights (grounding issue)
Ignore what should be and find out what is -- measure, measure, measure
Don't collect more than you are willing to pack up and move to another house -- EVER
I am better at drywalling
I now have limited experience with a power painter
Be sure to allow time for projects and contract out difficult and large projects
Rest. The work will most likely kill you in the morning.

Fire

With all the wood (fuel) that was there, I didn't need an accelerant. It got so hot, I could easily feel the heat 30' away. If you will not the one picture shows the thermal change in light transmission or the mirage effect.

Monday & Tuesday ceiling and priming

My niece was retiring for the night -- somewhat. Behind her is another section primed this afternoon. She volunteered to help and wanted the "largest section". She did the "blue room". Lilly is always a "big" help. She bears a white line on her side.
My niecewas a help today, so thank you!

She also got a section near the steps that I had missed entirely.

These are very thin slats (lattice) that will hide seams in the office.

This is part of the office. The ceiling tiles were quite heavy to support single-handed. My sister held it and I fought with the screws to get it into place. Yeah! I cursed the times the screws fought me and won.
We left the one tile drooping. There is a problem that my brother-in-law will resolve. We don't want to put a screw in the water line, so he can find it.

There is another section, which requires the removal of the light in order to install the ceiling. We didn't take the time to do this tonight.

When cutting the tiles at night last night, I accidentally sliced through the table. Thankfully it can be helped and fixed, albeit with an ugly hint, wood glue.

These are ceiling tiles that are roughly dense cardboard like the old clipboards. They are not too heavy, until you have to support them over your head.

Monday, June 30, 2008

Movie full of questions

I had to find the right debunker or critique before releasing the name of the movie. Zeitgeist, movie, has much to offend the mind. The first 40 minutes attempts to diminish your attachment to Christianity. A good critique and debunking of the movie is by this man who has written quite a bit to deflate the movie.

Watch, be offended, then read and feel "smarter".

Scaled down

Monkeyjack has a scale that shows really nice numbers for your weight. According to it, I came in at 83 pounds. Uh, I don't think so, but that's a good deal better than my hefty real weight.

It was the exact same thing ...

I kept saying the same thing over and over again without even knowing what I'm talking about.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

non-celebrity spotting

"Aren't you ..."

I was captured again wandering about. Adam spotted me and has a job at a hardware store. That means that five years ago I stuck in his mind. I am damn glad he didn't greet me with a sucker punch to the gut. I guess I did make some small, positive impact on people.

I like teaching, I like education, I just think our educational system needs work and not in the direction it has been. "Change the variables"+ ie: lower the standards.

+ Thank you Monkeyjack for this very memorable quote

greet me with the widest smile

Then they go after me like a dog biscuit.

I love you ... chew, chew, chew

not bad for a free item

I was given a computer cooling fan. I scoffed it, but it does cool down my laptop. Interesting.

It probably works better still not on the cement.

Charlie playing

He was a put put off that we didn't jump for hours on the trampoline or that we didn't have our eyes bug out with hours of Wii, but still we had fun. Charlie took the time to spit, gross habit, into the yard, and he lied down, thoughtfully before dinner. "Gosh! I'm starving!"

He appears to be doing a, "Mini Me"

2 clumps of mud

Well, I was mowing and the little girl in her yard was happy to talk with me. She wanted to know if I had kids, if I had a wife, if I had a mother. This was really because of her inquisitive mind.

"This is [man's name] house. He has a wife." "My mom has a belly in her belly." She was ecstatic about having a little sister. It was unclear to me whether she had high hopes or if the parents knew the sex of the unborn child.

In the course of our talk she broke off bits of the chunk of mud with which she was playing and let me "taste" some god old mother Earth, she old enough to understand it was a game. She wore some mud on her shirt and told me that she soon had to take a bath. I suggested to her to take time to play before she got cleaned. Folks tend not to have kids bathe just to dive back into the sandbox or make mud pies.

In all, the clumps of mud were a nice little gesture, though I didn't wind up putting them on a shelf of any kind.

same title, not a movie

weight of water

Fiery weekend?

Well, Keith enlisted my help with moving the logs from one point to another, now next to garage for the fire pit. They temporarily have two. Keith is using the fire to burn up the stump left from the massive tree taken a couple of years ago. --The pictures are clouded because of this fire and the one behind me as I shot this one -- The other fire pit is still in use which is where the burgers were cooked.

Charles (not Charlie), was many things in the Navy, a chef being one of them. He finished the burgers and cooked the shrimp while Charlie, Keith, and I were at the store. Lori was working on other stuff for the meal.

As well as logs, we moved stones to surround and control the fire on the second pit. Keith's goal is to move it once again to a point somewhere midpoint between the two, so people can sit around the fire like the old days.