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Monday, November 6, 2023 10:24 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


My neighbor is awesome. I called him up this morning and let him knew that I had the boards ready and he told me to come on over. Instead of trying to find the perfect bit to get the perfect match, he kept my drawer overnight and figured out a 2-step process to get it done with the bits he had. He used a roundover bit freehand after clamping the pieces down, then he set up his router on his table and made a jig for another bit that didn't have a guide to get the "scoop" out in leiu of a cove bit. He even busted out his sander and sanded them all down for me too.

They're PERFECT.



So I primed both sides and put 3 coats of my white paint on them before the day was over.

In between that I installed the main toe kick under the sink, fabricated the 3 other pieces I'd need from hardboard and primed and painted them 3 times, then got them installed.

Even managed to mow the back yard too.


Just got to let the faces cure for a few days because I think I'm going to glue them to the fronts of the boxes where they're sitting in the cabinets and then clamp them. I have to make sure that they're perfect, and using clamps will give me a lot more wiggle room than finalizing the job with brad nails right away. It may take me a few times unless I can come up with a surefire way to do it, so I think I'm only going to use a sparing amount of glue first in case I want to take it off and try again and only when I'm happy with them will I nail them in, use a little wood putty to cover that and paint the faces one more time.

Then I finally get to install all my drawer pulls that I bought years ago when I bought all the invisible/soft-close hinges.



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Monday, November 6, 2023 11:19 PM

BRENDA


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, the new phone I bought and plugged in last night won't let me dial out. Oh, I can get a dial tone and I can hear it dialing but then nothing happens.

I hate telephones right now.



Since both phones aren't working, it's hard to believe quality control is THAT bad. What both phones have in common is the phone jack (connector in the wall where you plug in). Sometimes all it takes is to plug the phone in and unplug it a few times to wear off any oxidation/corrosion that might have built up. Try that with both the old phone (since it was working before) and the new phone.

Try that first and see what happens.

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Thanks for the tip. I will.

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Monday, November 6, 2023 11:20 PM

BRENDA


Got a pick up game of mah jong in as I ran into one of the mah jong group. I won today. Each round with really good scores too.

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023 1:28 AM

SIGNYM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
My neighbor is awesome. I called him up this morning and let him knew that I had the boards ready and he told me to come on over. Instead of trying to find the perfect bit to get the perfect match, he kept my drawer overnight and figured out a 2-step process to get it done with the bits he had. He used a roundover bit freehand after clamping the pieces down, then he set up his router on his table and made a jig for another bit that didn't have a guide to get the "scoop" out in leiu of a cove bit. He even busted out his sander and sanded them all down for me too.

They're PERFECT.



So I primed both sides and put 3 coats of my white paint on them before the day was over.

In between that I installed the main toe kick under the sink, fabricated the 3 other pieces I'd need from hardboard and primed and painted them 3 times, then got them installed.

Even managed to mow the back yard too.


Just got to let the faces cure for a few days because I think I'm going to glue them to the fronts of the boxes where they're sitting in the cabinets and then clamp them. I have to make sure that they're perfect, and using clamps will give me a lot more wiggle room than finalizing the job with brad nails right away. It may take me a few times unless I can come up with a surefire way to do it, so I think I'm only going to use a sparing amount of glue first in case I want to take it off and try again and only when I'm happy with them will I nail them in, use a little wood putty to cover that and paint the faces one more time.

Then I finally get to install all my drawer pulls that I bought years ago when I bought all the invisible/soft-close hinges.



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Wow, that sounds GREAT! I'll bet you're happy to see that getting finished!


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Tuesday, November 7, 2023 1:28 AM

SIGNYM

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Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
Got a pick up game of mah jong in as I ran into one of the mah jong group. I won today. Each round with really good scores too.



Well, congrats, BRENDA!


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Tuesday, November 7, 2023 1:51 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Over at this end ...

My sinus saga continues. If you can imagine, I've had a sinus infection for five months. And my nose swells up so badly I can't breathe thru it. I do my best to clear it up before I go to bed (rinse, decongest, re-rinse with budenoside steroid and repsray with fluticasone, decongestant, and cromolyn) but it doesn't stay open for more than 5 hours. Consequently, I wake up and am running super short of sleep.

I have a puzzling infection with a witch's brew of gram negative bacteria. I can't imagine how I could have been so throughly exposed to such a wide range of pathogens except posssibly one of bottles of distilled water that I've been using to rinse my nose was contaminated or mislabelled. Anyway TWO written messages and one voicemail later, the PA finaly got back in touch. Because I have a bad reaction in the past to one class of antibiotics (fluoroquinolones) that WOULD work, and I already tried the other antibiotic that MIGHT work (Bactrim) - but didn't - we decided to try two different antibiotics compounded as a nasal rinse. I'm still seeing my ENT mid-month and an allergist/immunologist a week after. My hope is that the ENT sticks a couple more stents in my sinus passages so I can get rinse solution IN my sinuses (currently swollen shut) and that the other doctor can Rx Dupixent, which is (yet another) immune modifier to keep my immune system from misbehaving.

Anyway, despite that and the birthdays to manage and all of the house chores and doctors' appointments... I have managed to get the front berm and swale shaped and covered with weed barrier, and at some point in the future ... when I've allayed dear daughter's anxieties about getting Thanksgiving cards out in tiem, and done a few other things... I'll get to cover it with mulch.

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023 1:54 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Wow, that sounds GREAT! I'll bet you're happy to see that getting finished!



Yeah. Finally getting that appraisal and the tax thing behind me got the ball rolling again, just in time for the deep freeze.

I got a real good deal on horses a while back. I'm going to be bringing them in with some boards to make a table for my mitre saw and to stage a bunch of the trim I've had since 2019. It's already painted. I want to trim out the windows on the first floor, put trim around the staircases, finally get the door trim on the kitchen door out to the back porch and a few other things this winter. I don't mind the minor mess that the mitre saw makes in my basement. I just wanted to make sure that I had all the table saw cuts I wanted to do finished so I could clean my garage up before winter. That's all done too.

If I'm feeling especially ambitious this winter, I can always grab my conduit from the rafters in the garage and get the electric run to the crawl space for a second sump well. First thing I want to do after the spring rains is get that second well up and running and finally getting around to fixing my nearly-broke water spigot in the front of the house so I can start spraying for weeds. I didn't even try opening that spigot once this year because it took me over a week to close it so it wasn't dripping before last winter.



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Tuesday, November 7, 2023 1:04 PM

BRENDA


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
Got a pick up game of mah jong in as I ran into one of the mah jong group. I won today. Each round with really good scores too.



Well, congrats, BRENDA!


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It was. I couldn't seem to do any real wrong yesterday with the tiles. First score was over 5,000points and the second was over 7,000 points.

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023 1:07 PM

BRENDA


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Over at this end ...

My sinus saga continues. If you can imagine, I've had a sinus infection for five months. And my nose swells up so badly I can't breathe thru it. I do my best to clear it up before I go to bed (rinse, decongest, re-rinse with budenoside steroid and repsray with fluticasone, decongestant, and cromolyn) but it doesn't stay open for more than 5 hours. Consequently, I wake up and am running super short of sleep.

I have a puzzling infection with a witch's brew of gram negative bacteria. I can't imagine how I could have been so throughly exposed to such a wide range of pathogens except posssibly one of bottles of distilled water that I've been using to rinse my nose was contaminated or mislabelled. Anyway TWO written messages and one voicemail later, the PA finaly got back in touch. Because I have a bad reaction in the past to one class of antibiotics (fluoroquinolones) that WOULD work, and I already tried the other antibiotic that MIGHT work (Bactrim) - but didn't - we decided to try two different antibiotics compounded as a nasal rinse. I'm still seeing my ENT mid-month and an allergist/immunologist a week after. My hope is that the ENT sticks a couple more stents in my sinus passages so I can get rinse solution IN my sinuses (currently swollen shut) and that the other doctor can Rx Dupixent, which is (yet another) immune modifier to keep my immune system from misbehaving.

Anyway, despite that and the birthdays to manage and all of the house chores and doctors' appointments... I have managed to get the front berm and swale shaped and covered with weed barrier, and at some point in the future ... when I've allayed dear daughter's anxieties about getting Thanksgiving cards out in tiem, and done a few other things... I'll get to cover it with mulch.

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Forgot this in my other reply to you SIG. I tried your suggestion of replugging in my original phone and that didn't work. I got answering button to come on but I did it late to leave it over night and when I got up this morning that idiot red in line use button was blinking again.

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023 1:09 PM

BRENDA


Going out in a bit for my walk. Have to return "A Man Called Otto" to the library. Good film. Sad and sweet. Really enjoyed Tom Hanks in it as "Otto".

Also going to yell at my phone company again and see if I can get through to them that I need my phone line fixed.

Later peeps.

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023 4:45 PM

BRENDA


Back and in. Manager at the phone store called the repair line and let me use the store phone to speak to them. Technician is coming on Thursday afternoon.

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023 8:58 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I returned my router bit that I didn't use today, so before I left I figured I'd dig up some receipts and return some other stuff too. I had a mole gasser 4 pack that I didn't end up using to get rid of the mole this spring, and 10 electrical handy boxes taking up space in my tote for electrical stuff that I didn't need for my jobs. I've only really got one more majorish electrical project left on the house in that crawlspace, and these boxes weren't going to work because they're the ones that attach to the sides of studs and joists with a bracket on the side. I had 10 left over, so I must have got a little crazy buying them up at some point.

So that was nice. I ended up buying (I think) all of the remaining electrical stuff I'll need to do the sump work in the crawl space and I got one final roll of white contact paper to do the kitchen drawers, and I still have $5 in-store credit after the returns.

I didn't do much else today but nap. I had quite a few long days working this week and taking advantage of the weather. It kind of sucks burning one of the last nice days like I did today, but really there's not much I needed to do.

The only two season/weather dependent things left to do are getting the leaves to the curbs for pickup and cleaning out my gutters. But unfortunately the leaves aren't going to fall until it's cold again, with hardly any of them coming down in the last week. Like every year, most of my maple leaves are already down but only about half of the 4 sycamores across the street have come down. I had plenty that I could have done today, but there's no point. They just picked them up yesterday. The winds are probably going to be pretty fierce when the cold sets in on Thursday, and even if it didn't blow all the work I would have done today right up against my house I'm going to have a billion of my neighbors' leaves on my lawn by the weekend anyhow.

Tomorrow I'll get the rest of the stuff I'm going to need for work inside the house into my basement, and then I'll do some housecleaning. My dad is coming by later this week, my aunt is probably stopping by this weekend and I told my neighbor once I mount the drawer faces I'll have him over to see what they look like. He hasn't been here since my porch was still gutted, so I'm kind of looking forward to showing that off too.



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Tuesday, November 7, 2023 9:06 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
Back and in. Manager at the phone store called the repair line and let me use the store phone to speak to them. Technician is coming on Thursday afternoon.



Glad you're getting somebody to come out, Brenda.

I couldn't give you any advice. I know absolutely nothing about phone lines.

Not only haven't I had a home phone line since my first apartment back in the late 90's, but until I was working on remodeling my living room a few years ago I wasn't even aware that I don't even have phone service hooked up to my house! lol

I lived here like 9 or 10 years without even knowing that. There's phone jacks all over the place. The two in the living room didn't have plates, so it just had phone wire looped at the end and hanging out of the wall. I bought the proper plates to mount them that matched with the decorative plates I use for all my outlets and flapper switches and when I hooked them all up I tested out the phone and there was no dial tone. I've got a Network box in my basement that ties all the phone and coxial cable lines in the house together, so I went down there to see if I could figure out what went wrong and that was when I realized that even though they're all hooked up right, there's no actual line coming into my house from the outside.



So I guess that will be the next owner's problem if they want a land line. I dunno. I might call up the phone company and see if connecting service to a house is free one day. I'm certainly not going to be paying anybody to install phone service though when I've managed over 12 years without it.

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023 9:14 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Over at this end ...

My sinus saga continues. If you can imagine, I've had a sinus infection for five months. And my nose swells up so badly I can't breathe thru it. I do my best to clear it up before I go to bed (rinse, decongest, re-rinse with budenoside steroid and repsray with fluticasone, decongestant, and cromolyn) but it doesn't stay open for more than 5 hours. Consequently, I wake up and am running super short of sleep.

I have a puzzling infection with a witch's brew of gram negative bacteria. I can't imagine how I could have been so throughly exposed to such a wide range of pathogens except posssibly one of bottles of distilled water that I've been using to rinse my nose was contaminated or mislabelled. Anyway TWO written messages and one voicemail later, the PA finaly got back in touch. Because I have a bad reaction in the past to one class of antibiotics (fluoroquinolones) that WOULD work, and I already tried the other antibiotic that MIGHT work (Bactrim) - but didn't - we decided to try two different antibiotics compounded as a nasal rinse. I'm still seeing my ENT mid-month and an allergist/immunologist a week after. My hope is that the ENT sticks a couple more stents in my sinus passages so I can get rinse solution IN my sinuses (currently swollen shut) and that the other doctor can Rx Dupixent, which is (yet another) immune modifier to keep my immune system from misbehaving.

Anyway, despite that and the birthdays to manage and all of the house chores and doctors' appointments... I have managed to get the front berm and swale shaped and covered with weed barrier, and at some point in the future ... when I've allayed dear daughter's anxieties about getting Thanksgiving cards out in tiem, and done a few other things... I'll get to cover it with mulch.

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Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM






I hope you figure out that sinus thing Sigs. I can't imagine going through that for 5 months straight. :(

You've managed to get a hell of a lot more done on your property than I did over the summer despite it though.



Speaking of Thanksgiving I just got an invite from my friend's family again this year. I'm really looking forward to that since we don't see each other nearly as much since he got his new job. He hates going back to work 6 days a week, but he's finally got a good sales job after the last few didn't work out so well and he's making a ton of sales. I'm hoping for him that having a few rough years and hanging out with me have taught him to be a bit more frugal and save better for the tough spots. For most people, just starting to save at our ages would probably not amount to too much, but with the type of income he's capable of bringing in as a salesman at the right company, he should be able to retire early or at least let his current employer know that he only wants to work 3 days a week instead of 6 while not worrying about money anymore. He's a family man, and I can tell that all that time away from home is really bothering him after the last few jobs he had gave him a lot more time at home with his wife and kid.

He'll have more free time soon though. Winter is kind of a dead spot for windows sales.

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023 11:25 PM

BRENDA


Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
Back and in. Manager at the phone store called the repair line and let me use the store phone to speak to them. Technician is coming on Thursday afternoon.



Glad you're getting somebody to come out, Brenda.

I couldn't give you any advice. I know absolutely nothing about phone lines.

Not only haven't I had a home phone line since my first apartment back in the late 90's, but until I was working on remodeling my living room a few years ago I wasn't even aware that I don't even have phone service hooked up to my house! lol

I lived here like 9 or 10 years without even knowing that. There's phone jacks all over the place. The two in the living room didn't have plates, so it just had phone wire looped at the end and hanging out of the wall. I bought the proper plates to mount them that matched with the decorative plates I use for all my outlets and flapper switches and when I hooked them all up I tested out the phone and there was no dial tone. I've got a Network box in my basement that ties all the phone and coxial cable lines in the house together, so I went down there to see if I could figure out what went wrong and that was when I realized that even though they're all hooked up right, there's no actual line coming into my house from the outside.



So I guess that will be the next owner's problem if they want a land line. I dunno. I might call up the phone company and see if connecting service to a house is free one day. I'm certainly not going to be paying anybody to install phone service though when I've managed over 12 years without it.

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So am I. The guy on the phone was surprised it took me a week to get a hold of anyone. But that was only that the staff at the store didn't want to actually do anything except hand out numbers that I couldn't use anyways.

Outside of the few personal calls I make, I have it mostly for emergencies like I should injury myself but I can get to the phone to call 9-1-1 for an ambulance.


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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 12:08 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Have you noticed more difficulty reaching a human being in other situations in Canada recently, Brenda?

It got bad around here during Covid lockdowns, but I find it almost impossible to reach a human being almost anywhere these days, including the hospitals without having to call back 6 different times and try different options in the menus.

Customer service is just about dead in America.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 9:52 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
Back and in. Manager at the phone store called the repair line and let me use the store phone to speak to them. Technician is coming on Thursday afternoon.


Thats the problem with phone problems; when you have a problem, how can you call anyone about it?

Over here, we have two phone services from two different providers - a landline and a mobile, and they go by entirely different routes. Our landline goes thru our modem to a fiberoptic cable, and our cell phone goes wireless to a cell tower (and from there ultimately to different fiberoptic system.)

It used to be that landlines were all copper- based, and the great thing about them was the phone compnay would actually provide its own power, so the copper lines not only carried a signal, they actually provided power to your phone. That way, if your main power went out your phone would usually still work.


No more. Copper lines couldn't carry much signal. Everything's fiberoptic and digitized, even your landline. So when OUR power goes out, so does our modem, and our landline goes with it. So how do we report a power outage? Or if our landline/ internet provider goes out, how do we call it in? And if our cell provider goes out - same question. It's an added expense, but we've found it very useful to have both wired and cell service. That, and we keep in touch via cell when one of us is out and about. Good for on- the go emergencies too.

If you can find a low- cost basic cell and service, BRENDA, you might find it handy.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 10:06 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Have you noticed more difficulty reaching a human being in other situations in Canada recently, Brenda?

It got bad around here during Covid lockdowns, but I find it almost impossible to reach a human being almost anywhere these days, including the hospitals without having to call back 6 different times and try different options in the menus.

Customer service is just about dead in America.

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No kidding!!!

And the effing menus are inscrutable. There used to be a secret menu with most automzted syxtems that if you hit "0" you`d get operator. No more!! Now if you try it go get "we do not recognize that instruction"

The absolute worst is UPS. You should try it some time: they have a wonderful endless loop of a menu that takes absolute genius to break. Amazon is another one: you CAN reach a real person, but finding their phone number is almost impossible.

And then, when you do get thru to someone, most often ite seems to be someone in the Pillipines who has a crappy headset/ connection and an indecipherable accent.

That goes along with all the self- checkout services and self - banking servi es and all the apps now.

Grrrr....

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 10:08 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

No more. Copper lines couldn't carry much signal. Everything's fiberoptic and digitized, even your landline. So when OUR power goes out, so does our modem, and our landline goes with it. So how do we report a power outage? Or if our landline/ internet provider goes out, how do we call it in? And if our cell provider goes out - same question. It's an added expense, but we've found it very useful to have both wired and cell service. That, and we keep in touch via cell when one of us is out and about. Good for on- the go emergencies too.

In Texas, the electric companies use smart meters. When the power fails, I get a text from the power company about how long until repair. And Xfinity, my provider of internet service, knows when routers lose power. If a whole city block loses power, Xfinity, suspecting a break in their cable for that block, has gotten trucks here sooner than the power company. A squirrel electrocuted itself and also killed electricity for the whole block. That was in the text from the power company after service was restored.
https://www.smartmetertexas.com/home

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 10:29 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
Back and in. Manager at the phone store called the repair line and let me use the store phone to speak to them. Technician is coming on Thursday afternoon.


Thats the problem with phone problems; when you have a problem, how can you call anyone about it?

Over here, we have two phone services from two different providers - a landline and a mobile, and they go by entirely different routes. Our landline goes thru our modem to a fiberoptic cable, and our cell phone goes wireless to a cell tower (and from there ultimately to different fiberoptic system.)

It used to be that landlines were all copper- based, and the great thing about them was the phone compnay would actually provide its own power, so the copper lines not only carried a signal, they actually provided power to your phone. That way, if your main power went out your phone would usually still work.


No more. Copper lines couldn't carry much signal. Everything's fiberoptic and digitized, even your landline. So when OUR power goes out, so does our modem, and our landline goes with it. So how do we report a power outage? Or if our landline/ internet provider goes out, how do we call it in? And if our cell provider goes out - same question. It's an added expense, but we've found it very useful to have both wired and cell service. That, and we keep in touch via cell when one of us is out and about. Good for on- the go emergencies too.

If you can find a low- cost basic cell and service, BRENDA, you might find it handy.

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Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM






LOL... Oh wow. I didn't even think of that before since it doesn't pertain to me.

The year before I figured out I don't even have land line service to my home the AT&T trucks came around and "upgraded" everyone to fiber optic around here.

Unless you had a Generac system or had cordless phones how would you even power up your phone in an outage?

That's a pretty big engineering flaw.

I guess they had to consider the ROI when they did that though. What do you think the percentage of households with corded phones on land lines are in the country today? Gotta be 5% or less. Unfortunately though, every one of them would be seniors who have the most to lose in a power outage.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 10:43 AM

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Have you noticed more difficulty reaching a human being in other situations in Canada recently, Brenda?

It got bad around here during Covid lockdowns, but I find it almost impossible to reach a human being almost anywhere these days, including the hospitals without having to call back 6 different times and try different options in the menus.

Customer service is just about dead in America.

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No kidding!!!

And the effing menus are inscrutable. There used to be a secret menu with most automzted syxtems that if you hit "0" you`d get operator. No more!! Now if you try it go get "we do not recognize that instruction"



Oh. They know we're all on to that trick now.

My pharmacy's menu even does the best it can to make sure you don't talk to a live person. I know the exact phrase they're looking for, but it takes 3 menus to even get there. Now I know I keep hearing about how pharmacies have been laying off staff and they're short staffed, but every time I've walked in there there is 1 pharmacy and at least 5 techs if not 7. Half of them just seem to be standing around at any given time, and if you try to pick up anything between 1:30 and 2:00PM the entire pharmacy is closed for lunch.

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The absolute worst is UPS. You should try it some time: they have a wonderful endless loop of a menu that takes absolute genius to break. Amazon is another one: you CAN reach a real person, but finding their phone number is almost impossible.


Oh, I've had the UPS problem before. They got what they wanted out of me, which was to sign away my rights in order for them to leave the package if I don't answer the door. I've missed package deliverers while I was even home before. I don't have a doorbell, so if somebody comes up and just lightly wraps on the door and leaves I won't hear them. I don't know about you, but I'm not going to stand at my front door like a puppy dog for a 4 hour window they might not even honor waiting for a package.

Their phone service was bad even before Covid.

As cheap as I am, I've decided just to have them ship the extremely few packages I ever have delivered through them to the local Auto Zone and I pick them up there. It's a few bucks more to do that, but after the crazy hoops I had to jump through to pick up a package at one of their distribution centers I'm never going to go through that again.


I don't usually have to call Amazon, but when I have it hasn't been that bad for me. The last time I called them wasn't too long ago either. I needed to call somebody about a subscribe-and-save order maybe 3 months ago and it wasn't terrible. I also have the system written down if you need to contact somebody about a defective product. That is probably all changed by now though. It worked out very well for me when I had that used and damaged ladder sent to me, and again 2 weeks later when they sent me another obviously used ladder on the listing that said they were new. But rather than return the 2nd one which just had a few cosmetic defects, they refunded me half of the cost and I got a $250 12ft fiberglass ladder for only $125.


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And then, when you do get thru to someone, most often ite seems to be someone in the Pillipines who has a crappy headset/ connection and an indecipherable accent.


Yeah. I've become pretty rude about that of late. I don't remember who I was talking to just recently and I had to tell her about 4 times "I don't understand you".

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That goes along with all the self- checkout services and self - banking servi es and all the apps now.

Grrrr....



Yeah. I don't have any apps. I've been doing self-banking online since the late 90's though, so I don't mind that at all. I could probably count on 1 hand the amount of times I've had to call a bank or credit card company in the last 10 years.

I refuse to use self-checkout lanes. I always have. I'd rather take the extra time and use a human cashier because I don't want to be a part of what lets the companies replace human beings.

But when I was at WalMart a few months back the experience there really tested my patience. Let's just say that in order to fill quotas, WalMart isn't hiring the best.


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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 12:11 PM

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Our weather outlook has seemed to improve a bit, at least for November.

A couple of weeks ago it looked like a lot of deep freezing going on for most of the month, and we did have that for a few days already. But this warm spell we got was supposed to end yesterday and looks like it will more or less persist through the rest of the month. We're not going to be getting any 70 degree spring days like we did a few days ago, but we look to have highs in the 50's and even the 60's up until Thanksgiving week now.

I'm only seeing one day with a high under 40 until the first week of December now.

Sweet. :)



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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 12:43 PM

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No more. Copper lines couldn't carry much signal. Everything's fiberoptic and digitized, even your landline. So when OUR power goes out, so does our modem, and our landline goes with it. So how do we report a power outage? Or if our landline/ internet provider goes out, how do we call it in? And if our cell provider goes out - same question. It's an added expense, but we've found it very useful to have both wired and cell service. That, and we keep in touch via cell when one of us is out and about. Good for on- the go emergencies too.

In Texas, the electric companies use smart meters. When the power fails, I get a text from the power company about how long until repair. And Xfinity, my provider of internet service, knows when routers lose power. If a whole city block loses power, Xfinity, suspecting a break in their cable for that block, has gotten trucks here sooner than the power company. A squirrel electrocuted itself and also killed electricity for the whole block. That was in the text from the power company after service was restored.
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Then your power service is far, far better than ours. Our leg of the grid goes out for a few hours every few months, probably bc our neighborhood is older. The funny/ frustrating thing is, the people literally across the street and further to the east? THEIR lights are on! I know, I can see them! It usually seems to take a couple of hours to restore power ... just long enough for central office to call a repair guy out to flip a breaker it seems. Probably just a weak solenoid, not worth the fix, apparently. But do they ever notify anyone? Not unless you call!

Our ISP, who happens to be our phone provider, also does not notify. How could they, if communication is down?

But I did see a funny thing while walking the dog. There was an SCE truck with a ginormous generator on the back, powering.... something. So being my nosey self, I walked up and asked "Watcha doin'?"

As it turns out, ISP's lines and routers are powered by .... well, guess what? SCE! SCE was doing some repair work ... not on OUR leg of the grid, of course!... and they knew they would be taking down a part of ISP's network. Apparently they figured that rather than having to deal secondhand with a thousand angry ISP customers it would be cheaper and easier to run a generator to keep the network powered.

And now I know approximately where the ISP draws from the grid.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 12:46 PM

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Have you noticed more difficulty reaching a human being in other situations in Canada recently, Brenda?

It got bad around here during Covid lockdowns, but I find it almost impossible to reach a human being almost anywhere these days, including the hospitals without having to call back 6 different times and try different options in the menus.

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Yes, it is getting more difficult to reach a human being when you have to phone about something in Canada. And I noticed that before Covid in some ways.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 12:48 PM

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Back and in. Manager at the phone store called the repair line and let me use the store phone to speak to them. Technician is coming on Thursday afternoon.


Thats the problem with phone problems; when you have a problem, how can you call anyone about it?

Over here, we have two phone services from two different providers - a landline and a mobile, and they go by entirely different routes. Our landline goes thru our modem to a fiberoptic cable, and our cell phone goes wireless to a cell tower (and from there ultimately to different fiberoptic system.)

It used to be that landlines were all copper- based, and the great thing about them was the phone compnay would actually provide its own power, so the copper lines not only carried a signal, they actually provided power to your phone. That way, if your main power went out your phone would usually still work.


No more. Copper lines couldn't carry much signal. Everything's fiberoptic and digitized, even your landline. So when OUR power goes out, so does our modem, and our landline goes with it. So how do we report a power outage? Or if our landline/ internet provider goes out, how do we call it in? And if our cell provider goes out - same question. It's an added expense, but we've found it very useful to have both wired and cell service. That, and we keep in touch via cell when one of us is out and about. Good for on- the go emergencies too.

If you can find a low- cost basic cell and service, BRENDA, you might find it handy.

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Phone company that I deal with just flipped to fiber optic this year I do believe and my apartment building was totally redone.

I won't put everything on the same line. My internet and tv is with a different company than my phone. So I still have some sort of communication with the outside world incase something goes out. Like this time my phone.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 12:51 PM

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Out and a couple of things to do before I have a pick up game of mah jong in the afternoon.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 10:01 PM

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Got the drawer faces on. They're perfect.

All's left to do on them now is install the drawer pulls and get the contact paper on the surface.

I staged my miter saw and all of my trim on horses in the basement. Also brought down all my remaining conduit and all the electrical stuff I'll need to re-do all the crawl space electric for 2 sump wells. That should keep me busy for a while. I didn't want to leave all that out in the garage and give myself a good excuse not to do that work this winter.


While I was out there, I finally got around to a project I've been meaning to do a long time that's going to help me with the electrical work. Using a few 3/4" Oak boards I had lying around for a few years, I constructed a triangular jig of sorts meant to hold conduit for when I'm cutting it with a hacksaw. I got the idea from some youtuber when I was watching him show me how to do something completely unrelated. He showed how he put a few notches on the rails of his wooden A-Frame ladder to hold a piece of conduit, so you only need minimal force to keep it steady with one hand while cutting it with the other hand.

I don't have a wooden ladder, so this small and lightweight jig can be put on a table or on the floor and do the work for me and personally I think it's a lot better than potentially damaging an expensive ladder anyhow. I used the oak instead of pine 2x4"s to make it less bulky while probably being even stronger than the studs would have been. It doesn't appear that it will slide on me at all despite the light weight because you are applying downward force, but if I ever felt the need I can install some rubber feet to it that I still have leftover after putting the feet on my steps on the front porch a few years back.

Up until this point, cutting conduit has always been a nightmare. I would get on my knees on the ground and apply monster force on the conduit with one hand on top of a 5 gallon bucket, and it would still roll on me. Now it's not going anywhere.

I've probably done 4/5ths of the electrical work I was ever going to do on this house and could have used something like this years ago, but better late than never.



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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 11:22 PM

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Well, I heard from my boss. But this week for work is a bust. So, I told her next Monday is okay for me. I should be at the dentist next Tuesday.

Regular mah jong game for me tomorrow as today's game was a complete bust.

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 6:24 PM

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Got the booby prize today at mah jong.

And inspite of having spoken to a real live person, the telephone repair guy never showed up. Guess, I have to go and yell at them some more.

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 8:12 PM

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Got the booby prize today at mah jong.

And inspite of having spoken to a real live person, the telephone repair guy never showed up. Guess, I have to go and yell at them some more.



Don't take any shit Brenda.

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 8:14 PM

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Got all of the drawer pulls on today, so the cabinets are finally done.

I started working on them just before new years eve of 2020 lol.


I mowed and mulched all the leaves on the front lawn and got some of the housecleaning done. I was going to do more of it tonight, but I'm feeling kind of bleh right now.

I'll get that all done before my old man drops by tomorrow. Maybe I can get to sleep at a reasonable hour tonight and wake up early.

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Friday, November 10, 2023 12:13 PM

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Picture time.

I should probably just start with the drawer building...


I had a bunch of scrap wood that's been siting in my garage for ages from when I helped demo a few bathrooms and a kitchen years back. I was considering building these from scratch with boards I had on hand, but when I took measurements and realized that I had enough of them that were long enough for my dimensions and they already had the slots cut out for the panels on the bottom, as well as the panels being large enough themselves, I figured why put in the extra work? That's what I saved these things for, right?


I was considering getting fancy with how I joined them, but I was on a limited timeframe since the cold weather was coming and I'm by no means a master woodworker. My skills are more along the lines of 2nd month apprentice. These things aren't going to be holding more than 15lbs, and the drawer slides I bought are rated for 35lbs. Nothing that wood glue and brad nails can't hold, and nothing that paint and caulk can't hide since they were being painted anyhow.


Not too shabby.


The drawer slides were a bit tricky to install. I had to build a backer and a base for them, and then after spending a lot of time making sure everything was level and plum I finally screwed them into the wall with 3.5 inch screws.


I spent a LOT of time readjusting everything so that the drawers would be flush to the cabinets. It wasn't critical that they were perfectly centered in the opening because I would be adding the faces after the fact. The only important things in this step was they were flush and that they opened without scraping the sides.


The first time in 12 years I was able to put flatware in the drawer instead of collecting dust on the countertops.


Unfortunately, I couldn't find a picture of the floating cabinet on the other side of the stove until after I removed the door and drawer from it. Although I don't have pictures of the insides of any of these now, I believe I posted them before. Every cabinet and drawer was stripped, sanded, primed and got 3 coats of paint inside and out. That floating cabinet in particular was pretty gross before I got to it.


New door and drawer. All the doors had the old dated hinges and hardware removed and were replaced with invisible soft-close hinges. You can see that I also trimmed out the side with L-shaped trim, as I did all the cabinetry, and my dark grey toe-kick I made with hardboard on the bottom the other day.


And the horrors I had to deal with when I started...

Two of the 4 doors were cracked and didn't shut right. None of them were installed level with each other and/or the hinges were so old they were failing from the weight of the doors. Two panels installed on top of the holes where drawers should be were too tall and not wide enough for the openings, requiring additional blocks of wood to be installed beneath them, also meaning that I couldn't use them for drawer faces when I made the drawers. Everything dated as hell. Gross floor. Gross rubber toe kick. Useless dishwasher taking up space and preventing a drawer from even being opened if it were built.


Nice and clean.

Everything fixed. Invisible soft-close hinges on all doors. Everything perfectly level and spaced. Everything trimmed out with the L-shape trim. Dishwasher removed and used for a garbage nook instead (I may even build a platform for them that slides out like I did with the two lower drawers in my pantry). Two working drawers with matching faces thanks to my neighbor. Drawer pulls all installed, even on the fake drawer in the center where the sink is. Toe-kick under sink made of a ripped 3/4" board, and the tiny one I needed on the left as well as about a 13" one you can't see with a small cabinet on the right in between the main cab and the fridge were made out of hardboard.


Speaking of that cabinet... No drawer pull is going to be installed on that drawer.

The drawer on the right of the sink needed me to shave down the right side of the face by 3/16" otherwise it wouldn't clear that small drawer. Whoever added the extra cabinets years after the original ones that were only against the sink wall were built was not an engineer.

It's alright though. Even with my new fridge which doesn't protrude into the kitchen as much as the old one does, that's kind of an invisible corner over there unless you're actually using the kitchen regularly. If I don't point that out to anybody I doubt they'd even notice. That small drawer gets very little use and is easy enough to pull out without a pull anyhow.

I got it as close as possible without hitting the drawer. There's about 1/8" of clearance there. Maybe less. But the drawer pull is quality and doesn't allow me to bang it even when the drawer is fully opened. I made sure of that before I tightened everything down.





And since I was at it with the pictures I figured I'd show you the jig I made for cutting conduit with a hacksaw. That's going to save me a lot of time and frustration in the future.




That was made out of a few old Oak windowsills. When I took that Oak years ago I thought I'd be making nice stuff out of it, but it turned out to have some pretty sweet utilitarian purposes instead. One of the three was used in my garage to support my solution for hanging my 12ft fiberglass ladder high up on one side of a joist in my garage while hanging an extension ladder on the other side.

I chose to use these to make the jig to keep it lightweight and easy to move around while also being strong enough for the job.

I thought about sanding down the cuts I made for the conduit, but decided against it because it's got a lot of grip with the rough cuts and doesn't slide at all when you apply just the tiniest bit of downward pressure on the piece.

No more putting 300lbs of downward pressure on a round piece of metal on top of the lips of a 5 gallon bucket with one hand while trying to cut it with a hacksaw in the other hand for me now.




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Friday, November 10, 2023 12:16 PM

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Gorgeous work Jack. You should be proud of yourself.

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Friday, November 10, 2023 12:16 PM

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Out soon to try and get some stuff done today. Hopefully before the rain comes.

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Friday, November 10, 2023 12:30 PM

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Gorgeous work Jack. You should be proud of yourself.



Thanks Brenda. It took me AGES to do. I wish I kept a log of all the hours that went into that project.

I've really got to do something about that countertop now though. When I first went into this project the countertop was by far the nicest looking thing in the kitchen. Now it's a big 'ole eyesore.



I think I might tile it with some various grey tiles, going heavy on a dark grey to offset the bright white cabinetry/fridge/range hood.

I've never really worked with tile before, but I'm sure I can figure it out. The thing is, I'm going to need to do it quick when I start though because that sink has to come out when I'm doing it, and since I don't have a slop sink or a working 2nd bathroom in the basement, my only water sources are going to be the sink and tub in the 2nd floor bathroom until I'm finished.

I may at that point buy a new sink basin as well. The one I have in there now is fine, but it's a little beat up.

I want to do it sooner than later too because the kitchen sink's hot water is barely a trickle and I need to install a new faucet. I don't want to bother doing that until the countertop and sink are finished though. And since I'd be needing to use the water in the only working bathroom while all that is going on, I'd rather be cleaning tools in there before I finally get around to remodeling the bathroom.

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Friday, November 10, 2023 1:50 PM

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That is beautiful work, SIX. Everything looks so clean and crisp. And even and level! Real classy! It's such a transformation I can't begin to tell you how impressed I am.


Also thanks for the pics of the jig for conduit- cutting. I had a hard time picturing it, all I could think was ???? but now I see how useful it is!!

Amazing results!

Oh, BTW, it looks like you have a solid surface kitchen countertop. It's funny that you want to replace it with tile bc one think I'd like to do is replace my tile countertop with solid surface. I hate grout, it gets so dirty.

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Friday, November 10, 2023 4:10 PM

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Back and done for today. Rain held off on me. See what happens tomorrow.

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Saturday, November 11, 2023 1:10 AM

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That is beautiful work, SIX. Everything looks so clean and crisp. And even and level! Real classy! It's such a transformation I can't begin to tell you how impressed I am.



Thanks Sigs.

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Amazing results!



Yeah. Hard to explain exactly what it was without pictures.

Awesome for what it was for, but the very next day I had to sheer off the ends of some machined screws to properly fit those drawer pulls and had to hold them between my thumb and a finger on the work bench while I sawed them off because my toolshop is still lacking things it needs and I haven't installed either of my vices yet.

In retrospect, I would have drilled a hole in the side of that unit only wide enough to tightly fit the screw and sawed off the edge that way. I don't know why I just thought of that idea now.

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Oh, BTW, it looks like you have a solid surface kitchen countertop. It's funny that you want to replace it with tile bc one think I'd like to do is replace my tile countertop with solid surface. I hate grout, it gets so dirty.



Yeah. Not a huge fan of grout here either, but they do make HUGE tiles these days. Anything that I'd be using that was greasy like my George Foreman would be on some sort of protective surface too.

The nice thing about my crappy veneer countertop is that it's easy to clean and I don't give a crap about it anyway. The more I fix on this house the more I treat it like a museum like my mom and step-dad did, which is supremely annoying. I lost my favorite smoking spot when I finished that 3-season room just like I knew was going to happen. It doesn't even matter that I spent the time, energy and money to put in ceiling ventilation to pull the smoke out. I haven't smoked a single cigarette out there since I finished it, and only plan on using those vents when I have people over for poker night starting next year.

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Saturday, November 11, 2023 1:59 AM

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Got a good wind whipping around me right now at almost 11pm. The only ferry sailing to leave from the mainland over to Vancouver Island was the 6pm. Everything else was cancelled for tonight.

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Saturday, November 11, 2023 12:59 PM

BRENDA


With all that wind last night not sure if there were any power outages around me.

My laundry day in a bit then a walk.

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Saturday, November 11, 2023 4:17 PM

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Back from my walk as I couldn't get my laundry done because the elevators are not working. So I walked down 10 flights of stairs to get out and back up 10 when I got in.

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Saturday, November 11, 2023 8:48 PM

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That's a lot of steps if you're not used to doing it. How you getting around these days, Brenda? Are you able to manage that until they're back on?

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Saturday, November 11, 2023 11:04 PM

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It is awkward for sure. I'm still walking pretty good. I should be alright until they are fixed what with tomorrow being Sunday and I don't do anything anyways.

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Sunday, November 12, 2023 1:59 AM

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It is awkward for sure. I'm still walking pretty good. I should be alright until they are fixed what with tomorrow being Sunday and I don't do anything anyways.

Pretty wild weather you got there!

If that was me walking down and then up 10 flights of stairs I would have called it my walk for the day and gone back inside. But I'm sure you do things besides walk for exercise, so I hope any errands are all done.



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Ive been feeling like shit the past week thanks to a raging sinus infection and each day felt a little worse than the day before. I gave up trying to breathe thru my nose at night, the decongestant stopped working, the steroid nasal rinses weren't doing shit, nothing else I tried was working, and I felt a little abandoned by my doctor. But the two powerful antibiotics arrived today, specially compounded for nasal rinsing and targeting exactly what they found, so I feel hopeful that things will turn around. I may even get enough sleep some time soon. I made myself a hot cocao in celebration.

In the meantime, rain is predicted for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I've been doing my darndest to get weed barrier down, at least for the areas that I graded, but between doing stuff for the family and feeling like crap I only got a couple of hours free each week. So I begged off from cooking yesterday and made a bunch of progress and more today. I had to unbuild the low stone surround for the oak tree mound to put paper underneath where the rocks go. One more layer and I can roll the rocks off the mound and finish up with the upper edge, and rebuild the wall. And then I will have gotten done as much as I could have.

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Sunday, November 12, 2023 10:41 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


My aunt's coming over today. She hasn't been here in a while, so that will be nice.


I'm going to pick up some primer since I'm almost running out.

I decided to prime the wood, which is technically jambs, around the overlook low on the kitchen wall into the basement. Just doing that instead of looking at the bare wood that's been there for 13 years really looks nice. I'm going to have to patch some holes in it before painting, but if I get that done I can at least case it out and case the kitchen door to the porch so I can finish the baseboard in the kitchen finally.

I'm not sure how I want to build that yet. It used to have wrought iron that matched the banisters for both staircases, but I HATE wrought iron inside a house. But I'm sick of looking at the thing without casing on it, so I'll figure that out later and just get all of it painted and cased for now.

I had enough primer for that and a few little modifications I need to do on the living room windows, but I still have to prime that kitchen door on both sides and paint it. I've also got to do the same to the bathroom door and the door leading to the attic on the 2nd floor as well... and eventually I'll have to prime the banisters and whatever I build in the overlook too, so I might as well buy the primer today.

Hopefully my wood putty is still good. I should check that before I go for the primer.

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Sunday, November 12, 2023 1:16 PM

BRENDA


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That's a lot of steps if you're not used to doing it. How you getting around these days, Brenda? Are you able to manage that until they're back on?

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It is awkward for sure. I'm still walking pretty good. I should be alright until they are fixed what with tomorrow being Sunday and I don't do anything anyways.

Pretty wild weather you got there!

If that was me walking down and then up 10 flights of stairs I would have called it my walk for the day and gone back inside. But I'm sure you do things besides walk for exercise, so I hope any errands are all done.



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It was. The wind downed some power lines that started a fire in one city. And there was the ususal downed tree branches and such because the trees are weak after the summer drought.

I managed to get my errands done which included a little groceries. Have more of that to do tomorrow. So we shall see.

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Sunday, November 12, 2023 1:19 PM

BRENDA


Just a lazy Sunday around me and it is dry for today. Not sure about totally about the rest of the week. Was suppose to work tomorrow then my boss remembered that she made arrangements to go hiking with a friend, so that is off the table. I should send an email to someone else I know as she must be wondering what happened to me. Hopefully I will get to that tonight.

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Sunday, November 12, 2023 3:25 PM

SIGNYM

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Just a lazy Sunday around me and it is dry for today. Not sure about totally about the rest of the week. Was suppose to work tomorrow then my boss remembered that she made arrangements to go hiking with a friend, so that is off the table. I should send an email to someone else I know as she must be wondering what happened to me. Hopefully I will get to that tonight.

My down day was Friday. I was miserable bc of this crazy infection, and depressed bc of lack of energy and progress.

Have to say, those antibiotics are powerful stuff. They started working with the first rinse. My nose is still incredibly stuffed, but the green goo (yeah, TMI) is almost completely gone and I slept thru the night. FINALLY, three rounds of antibiotics and two rounds of steroids and several different kinds of rinses and sprays, SOMETHING is working!


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Sunday, November 12, 2023 7:42 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Nice visit with my aunt. Lunch was great.

Instead of working on my indoor projects, I decided to try to take care of some leaves before pickup tomorrow since the weather was so nice. I didn't have enough time to mow the entire front lawn before the sun went down though, so I did the peripheral by the curb an the smaller section on the side of the walkway that wasn't down wind. Almost all of my maple leaves are down, so maybe they fall tonight and I can mow them all up with one go tomorrow. At least me and my neighbors all got our leaves up to the curb today. All that's left now is their damn sycamore trees.

I don't feel like doing any wood putty/sanding/prep tonight. I like doing that better during daylight. I think I'll just take it easy for the rest of the night and try to get to sleep at a reasonable hour. 61 degrees is the high tomorrow.


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