assuming anybody reads this rabid screed ;) that's OK, it doesn't take long to write, because nothing happens around here :-D
round 2 on Cheryl's tooth this Wednesday. we'll do what we gotta do on two fronts... (1) 20-pound turkey and assorted good Stuff. (2) Shawn and I have to put a larger door on DeBasement bedroom before his self-purchased furniture arrives Friday or Saturday.
sometime before we all die, or Christmas comes, whichever is first... I also have the yard decorations, recently-delivered balsam garland and festive Cross to implant, and inside decorating to do. it would also be really fine if I got the space heater cleaned up, the wick trimmed, and get that sooty mess back in the ham shack. burned out the old fuel and wick last weekend, and the heater is a mess. this is supposed to happen several times a heating season if you use it frequently. thank goodness I don't. but the old fuel attracts moisture, and it was not burning really well end of last season.
you can run up $50 in electric bills using the 3Kw heater in there every month, so the little heater has been great. very little sooty guck built up behind and under the parts bins. it would be nice to have a wood or vented oil heater in there, but man, the initial cost is not positive to go there. all the old potbellied stoves I had a chance at when I was growing up, sigh. stovepipe is cheap. stoves are not.
for the unchurched who do not read this rabid screed: we are now in what church calendars call the Advent season. Advent is the run-up to the birth of Christ, long fortold as God's train pass to sinners who want out of the slide to hellfire and death. it's a really good time to think about John 3:16... For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
that's it. the one absolute definining sentence of the Christian faith. all the rest of the bible is really ya, sure, ya betcha then. Sven, in the details and proofs.
is that really so hard to get into?
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
DeBasement delayed
Cheryl needed an emergency root canal yesterday, and it kind of takes two for serious tiling work. so we're looking to the weekend.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
stealing from myself
failing to broaden my reach by quoting from myself on the Lileks blog ( www.lileks.com/bleats ) on this here religiously unread screed:
a straw poll in the bars on the NatReview Cruise, and we have the numbers. Wheat straw, 20%... curly straws, 15%, rice straw 18%, 2009 hay 16%. the rest split among various grasses and weeds.
they also had a "candidate straw" entry on the poll, with one vote. this is because everybody knows no candidate for anything, anywhere, has one straw of fiber in their whole being.
a straw poll in the bars on the NatReview Cruise, and we have the numbers. Wheat straw, 20%... curly straws, 15%, rice straw 18%, 2009 hay 16%. the rest split among various grasses and weeds.
they also had a "candidate straw" entry on the poll, with one vote. this is because everybody knows no candidate for anything, anywhere, has one straw of fiber in their whole being.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
the lull before the storm in DeBasement
around Chez swschrad, monday and tuesday are typically slacker nights... right now we're watching Duggermania. starting tomorrow night, back to DeBasement. got to expand the shower outlet hole in a porcelain tile, and then we finish the shower. and then we do the shower floor and curb. and then we're hoping to get the floor at least laid out.
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a little painting, a couple electrical hookups, grout and set the toilet, and a door... we've got the second room done down there.
then we have a closet yet to rip out and rebuild with new exterior walls so we can clear the family room and complete that bugger.
it's still possible to get it carpeted and ready for party! by Christmas.
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a little painting, a couple electrical hookups, grout and set the toilet, and a door... we've got the second room done down there.
then we have a closet yet to rip out and rebuild with new exterior walls so we can clear the family room and complete that bugger.
it's still possible to get it carpeted and ready for party! by Christmas.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
news items, and commentary
ITEM: Penn State a zoo over child sex abuse.
COMMENTARY: about 10 years too late, with rules 30-40 years out of date. fire them all and let God sort them out.
ITEM: Academy Awards director, host bail over director's gay epithet.
COMMENTARY: yawn, Billy Crystal took the job. should have been the Muppets. in particular, Statler and Waldorf, the hecklers from the balcony. sorry, Kermit, the jokes are above your head.
ITEM: deadbutt North Dakota "legislators" finally can stupid law, allow UND to change mascot so it can play in tournaments.
COMMENTARY: yeah, right, with the changes delayed until 2015, and blank uniforms until then. when will these fossils ever lie down in the tar and disappear?
ITEM: Reuters reports home improvement projects getting smaller, weather doors the best investment.
COMMENTARY: really, people aren't blowing out the wall to add a sun porch with granite countertops and Wolf stoves any more? well I'll be damned! -- the republic is plum gone to Hell.
COMMENTARY: about 10 years too late, with rules 30-40 years out of date. fire them all and let God sort them out.
ITEM: Academy Awards director, host bail over director's gay epithet.
COMMENTARY: yawn, Billy Crystal took the job. should have been the Muppets. in particular, Statler and Waldorf, the hecklers from the balcony. sorry, Kermit, the jokes are above your head.
ITEM: deadbutt North Dakota "legislators" finally can stupid law, allow UND to change mascot so it can play in tournaments.
COMMENTARY: yeah, right, with the changes delayed until 2015, and blank uniforms until then. when will these fossils ever lie down in the tar and disappear?
ITEM: Reuters reports home improvement projects getting smaller, weather doors the best investment.
COMMENTARY: really, people aren't blowing out the wall to add a sun porch with granite countertops and Wolf stoves any more? well I'll be damned! -- the republic is plum gone to Hell.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
the Home Despot had the offset toilet flange
may not get to it this weekend, but it's ready. we also got more tile, white, for the ceiling of DeBasement shower. even if I have to do OT on Saturday, we're tiling that motha.
also Cheryl got the base molding stained and varnished, so that's up for the weekend. I have everything else except doors in the basement bedroom. looks like we're going to have to cut down every freakin' new door on the existing openings, dangit. we knew four would have to be cut 3 inches around openings under the hvac bulkhead. cut those 3 inches. everything else except the new opening I built under the stairs needs to be cut 1 inch.
man, there was a lot of slop done in the basement. everything is spot-on in the original construction upstairs. and then it looks like they let the journeymens' kids finish it up on the weekend.
also Cheryl got the base molding stained and varnished, so that's up for the weekend. I have everything else except doors in the basement bedroom. looks like we're going to have to cut down every freakin' new door on the existing openings, dangit. we knew four would have to be cut 3 inches around openings under the hvac bulkhead. cut those 3 inches. everything else except the new opening I built under the stairs needs to be cut 1 inch.
man, there was a lot of slop done in the basement. everything is spot-on in the original construction upstairs. and then it looks like they let the journeymens' kids finish it up on the weekend.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
oh, for a toilet flange
to be precise, a 3-inch offset closet flange in ABS. save a LOT of floor breaking and pipe work in DeBasement. got a couple other places to look before giving up with a sigh, and planning to break out twice as much floor concrete.
light week, in fact, we didn't get down there. we're bedraggled with colds, it would appear. have some mudding for this weekend to do, I have some light wiring and removal of a media cabinet in the main section so we can replace a little more sheetrock. carpet for the bedroom is going in Tuesday afternoon (hey, I feel a song coming on!...) and then son #3 can start cleaning his crud and moving it in. anything stinky or dusty will have to be remedied before going in there.
then my next big plan is getting the 15-foot 2x6s trimmed up and under the stairs for reinforcement, and building a proper header for the staircase to the joists. things that the original builder fudged on. will have to sacrifice one tread to get the stringer bracing in, I'm afraid.
at that point, we can get back to kicking and taking in the main room, while sanding and painting the bath. tile, in-floor heat, floor base, tile, and vanity construction next. then we can install the new shutoffs and the fixtures. voila!
there is also a little matter of getting the junk dirt piles up from the egress window jobs and in the Bagster, and get this crap out of here by the first freezing precip. and the gardens covered and the crocuses planted.
never enough time.
light week, in fact, we didn't get down there. we're bedraggled with colds, it would appear. have some mudding for this weekend to do, I have some light wiring and removal of a media cabinet in the main section so we can replace a little more sheetrock. carpet for the bedroom is going in Tuesday afternoon (hey, I feel a song coming on!...) and then son #3 can start cleaning his crud and moving it in. anything stinky or dusty will have to be remedied before going in there.
then my next big plan is getting the 15-foot 2x6s trimmed up and under the stairs for reinforcement, and building a proper header for the staircase to the joists. things that the original builder fudged on. will have to sacrifice one tread to get the stringer bracing in, I'm afraid.
at that point, we can get back to kicking and taking in the main room, while sanding and painting the bath. tile, in-floor heat, floor base, tile, and vanity construction next. then we can install the new shutoffs and the fixtures. voila!
there is also a little matter of getting the junk dirt piles up from the egress window jobs and in the Bagster, and get this crap out of here by the first freezing precip. and the gardens covered and the crocuses planted.
never enough time.
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