Charlie taffy

Thank you Lori for the cakes!

They worked out great! Your carrot cake was the talk of the day. So many compliments! Truly, you should be proud. You claimed that you had the greatest challenge with the roses, I think they look great!

long weekend

Family did a 50th anniversary celebration for the folks. There were over 80 people there other than family. It got crowded, but we managed. I ran around quite a bit trying to make sure things happened, were recorded and cleaned up. While I wasn't alone on this, I tried hard, and thusly didn't get to chat much with guests.

I anticipate my sister needing help today at her house in preparation for tomorrow when carpet gets installed.

running off at the mouth?

Lake James parties and headaches -- ha, ha ... funny! Yep, drinking heavy and hangovers that I see, but potty worries?

The association president is worried about phosphate levels from potty issues from sandbar guests? That, my dear friends is insane! So, the gas and suntan lotion, shampoo, grease, food trash -- all of that isn't bad, because we have to worry about people peeing in the lake?

I agree that you should never squat down, becoming chin deep in water in order to lighten your bowel. I do understand people standing in a lake and not taking off with the boat to pee in the comfort of a toilet. You go out in a group of 8, then 2 have to take off to potty, then 2 more later, etc. Have you heard of the comedy of women going in packs to the restroom at restaurants?

bad catcher, I missed them

Sorry to the Q collective, as I have been helping my sister over the last couple of weeks and have about six more days of it before it is, "done" for the moment. I hope that my life is better sorted so that I can see the whole of you sometime, next time, anytime.

Thanks,
Marcus

- photo courtesy of MR via cell phone

house work for Thursday

My niece came home late and didn't like the colors.
It is a tradition now, I suppose that every night end with Lilly going belly up.
Well, we got four walls painted today. Pomagranet (red) is quite the bold color. Two other walls are yellowish off-white and the fourth is yellow.
My brother-in-law finished with office room by installing lattice work, hiding the seams.
He is hard at work with pants that are too big for his size 31 waist. I am thinking he is a size 29.8" waist, but ...
My niece with paint plays a bit with Lilly who wanted to play all day.
My niece covered her painted legs with jeans and went to a movie.
Hey! It's an installed door! The funny thing -- there are no keys for this door.
My brother-in-law and I put on the coat of polyurethane.
My sister posing for the multitude of work.
This young man is spraying the outside of the house to kill ants -- carpenter ants maybe.
Jerry came out and installed the door on his birthday. Thanks Jerry!

We made progress today, my sister ended it with well-earned baklava. We still have much to do, but we are making progress.

eligible for parole?

Thankfully it isn't until he is dead and his bones near powder.
Sex abuser sentenced several life sentences.
I think shooting would be faster.

through technique

I shall stretch my inner sleep, finding yawn on the plane of rest and indulge in a decadent out of stiff body experience.

more work, more tired

groin tear -- thankfully just my denims

nice pants, holes in naughty areas

3 month-old shoe
stained, ripped, damaged inside and out
I need to find shoes that take a beating
these weren't them

dog bears blue
my sister's paint-soaked hand

my sister's shoe

just one more cow's tail lifting ... door was wrong size. That was confirmed AFTER the old door was ripped out.

1 of 2 coats on a wall

13' x 24' room, primed for painting

shoe dispair

Another shoes ruined and my other remaining "newer" pair look like artwork -- scorch marks, paint, primer, stain, seams tearing. I really need affordable shoes that take a beating and last 9 months. No shoes last long with me. I tear them up like Wile E. Coyote did purchases from ACME.

I have two pairs of tennis shoes neither very comfortable.

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.

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.

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"