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Tuesday, November 22, 2022 6:59 PM

SIGNYM

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Still no car, but I did talk to the mechanic yesterday. He's waiting on the part and he's going to fix it. Looks like he won't need to drop the fuel tank since he'll be using nylon tubing to replace the rusted out line, so if nothing changes it's going to be fixed for under a $100 when he's done.

I can live with that.

Don't know if I'll be getting it before Thanksgiving though.

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I hope that doesn't interfere with your holiday plans!

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Tuesday, November 22, 2022 7:00 PM

SIGNYM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from my walk and I would have had lunch at that little hot dog/hamburger place I like which is near the dentist and the pharmacy I use. But it was just too wet. It was even too wet to wait outside for the bus. I had to stay indoors of the mall till the bus came.

The rain is tapering off now and it is suppose to be dry tomorrow. So we shall see.

I hope tomorrow is drier than today!

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Tuesday, November 22, 2022 7:24 PM

BRENDA


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from my walk and I would have had lunch at that little hot dog/hamburger place I like which is near the dentist and the pharmacy I use. But it was just too wet. It was even too wet to wait outside for the bus. I had to stay indoors of the mall till the bus came.

The rain is tapering off now and it is suppose to be dry tomorrow. So we shall see.

I hope tomorrow is drier than today!

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So, do I.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2022 8:01 PM

SIGNYM

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Sent by my cousin.. OMG that's a lotta snow!

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CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — This week’s snowstorm has set a state record for the amount of snowfall within a 24-hour period, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz confirmed on Sunday.
FEMA emergency declaration for NY approved
The historic snowstorm made landfall in Western New York on Thursday and dumped snow on the region until Saturday night. The record was for the most snowfall within a 24-hour period, the previous record having been set in the Tug Hill region of New York State in the 1960s.

Orchard Park had the most overall snowfall of the storm, with 77 inches. Hamburg had 73.7 inches, while Blasdell had 65 inches, rounded out by Elma’s 58.2 inches and West Seneca’s 49 inches for the top five towns and villages that had the most snow.


https://www.wivb.com/news/local-news/western-new-york-snowstorm-sets-s
tate-record


The previous record was set in 1960.


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Wednesday, November 23, 2022 1:04 PM

BRENDA


Out for my walk in the dry today.

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Wednesday, November 23, 2022 4:44 PM

BRENDA


Back from my walk a while ago. No rain while I was out but more rain on the way.

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Wednesday, November 23, 2022 11:40 PM

BRENDA


Off to mah jong in the morning. Have a good Turkey day everyone.

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Thursday, November 24, 2022 11:41 AM

SIGNYM

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After reliably cooking nutritious meals for the family every gorram day, today is the day I give thanks for not having to cook. We do takeout T-day meal.

I've slogged my way thru my treatment and hubby's recovery and other misc appts and summer and miscellaneous issues. Watered the property and sprayed for weeds a couple of times, and after today get a chance to get to some nitty gritty yardwork.

I can still only do an hour at a time and not every day, but something is better than nothing. Plus I've been in touch with a guy for some help with the heavier-duty stuff. I hope he's reliable and schedules me in after today.

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Thursday, November 24, 2022 5:19 PM

BRENDA


Back from mah jong, the library and some grocery shopping. Had some luck at mah jong, I got 3rd place.

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Friday, November 25, 2022 12:17 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I had my first proper Thanksgiving Day meal in close to two decades today.

When my bud came and picked me up yesterday for movie night, he heard me finishing a call with my Aunt where we'd all but decided that they'll come over on Saturday instead of today because all the restaurants around me were closed for the holiday. When he was dropping me off last night he offered come swoop me again today for the dinner I was smelling his wife cooking the whole time I was there last night.

It was a small get together, which I prefer and might not have even gone to if it was some huge party, and I got to meet some of his wife's family. I even got a bunch of hugs when I left.

They're good people. He was kind of an asshole back in the day, but I was too. It was really cool that we rekindled our friendship back when my other bud invited me to his big 40th Bday bash. Honestly never thought we'd be friends again, but now he's closer to me than a good deal of my family is.

I'll be helping him move in a slate pool table in a couple of weeks. He's going to sacrifice his awesome movie man cave for the pool table. So I offered to come over next week and help him move his furniture upstairs. He said he didn't know where he'd put it and then asked me if I wanted it.

Sure thing man. A leather couch and single seat that recline and don't have any burn marks or pet damage? I might even put that in my living room and put my futon and 70's recliner out in the porch.



He's even got a REALLY nice faux fireplace/TV stand down there that he thinks he's probably not going to want after the change up too. I didn't even realize that because he never turns it on, but when I mentioned to him yesterday that I wanted to get one of those for the porch he said "oh, like the one I've got?"

It's beautiful, actually. And no doubt it cost a lot more than the one's I've been eyeing. I'm not going to keep my hopes up on getting that, and I doubt I'd be getting it for free if I do, but he'll probably find some work he needs done in trade if he does decide to get rid of it. He's already talking about having me come over and do stuff around the place since his situation is looking really good right now, despite the crap economy.

It was nice getting out of the house the last two days. I haven't done much besides my computer project for about a week since I came back from visiting my brother.

I need to get out more.

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Friday, November 25, 2022 1:25 PM

SIGNYM

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It sounds like you had an awesome Thanksgiving, SIX! Isn't it great when unexpected events turn out to be so nice??

Leather couch?? Recliner chair? Those would be so classy in your redone living room. It would highlight all work you've done.

I had a really nice day, too. Except for picking up the dinners and taking the dog for a REALLY short walk, I did nothing. I rested bc I've been flogging myself the past few weeks, watched TV with the family, had a NICE long chat with one of my sisters. But mostly, I rested, and it was great!

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Friday, November 25, 2022 5:06 PM

BRENDA


I went out early today for my walk to try and beat the rain. That didn't work. It stopped an hour after I was out but I got my walk and a bit more grocery shopping done. And right now as of 2:06pm the sun is trying to peak through the clouds. Talk of snow over the weekend. Have to see.

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Friday, November 25, 2022 6:27 PM

SIGNYM

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I don't know why this is such an earworm for me, but it's been stuck for a couple of days. There are a lot of versions but I like the original one best.

And since it's such an earworm, I thought I'd share.




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Friday, November 25, 2022 10:49 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Spent zero on Black Friday.

If nobody wants to give any worthwhile deals, they don't get any money.



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Friday, November 25, 2022 11:22 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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It sounds like you had an awesome Thanksgiving, SIX! Isn't it great when unexpected events turn out to be so nice??

Leather couch?? Recliner chair? Those would be so classy in your redone living room. It would highlight all work you've done.



Yeah. We had a great time. His wife's father passed away just last week, and she'd been spending a LOT of time over there with him for the two years he hung on. I think I was a great distraction to that, and we had a lot of laughs during the dinner. Her mom said something super funny which wouldn't make sense out of context and without me trying to explain it all, but it was completely out of character for her and not something you'd expect a woman in her 70's to say. I even managed to bring it back later in the conversation and we got another good laugh out of it. His wife was in tears she was laughing so hard and said she didn't think that those were the types of tears she'd be crying tonight.

The food was awesome. My family hasn't done thanksgiving (at least remotely in town) for about 20 years and any time I was working I'd always volunteer that day and get the extra pay. So after my plans fell through I was really happy for the offer.

The couches are nice, but they're tan and probably would clash with my colors in the living room. Oh well... I've never been one to care about those things. It will be comfortable though. They're great.

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I had a really nice day, too. Except for picking up the dinners and taking the dog for a REALLY short walk, I did nothing. I rested bc I've been flogging myself the past few weeks, watched TV with the family, had a NICE long chat with one of my sisters. But mostly, I rested, and it was great!



Sounds nice.

I did nothing at all today but rest and it was excellent.

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Saturday, November 26, 2022 1:07 PM

BRENDA


Off to get my laundry done then a walk.

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Saturday, November 26, 2022 5:14 PM

SIGNYM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Off to get my laundry done then a walk.

I have a lot of cleanup at this end. One of these days, I'll get to that yardwork, but today I think it's all indoor work.

Well, another 1/2 cup coffee and then I'll get going.

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Saturday, November 26, 2022 5:40 PM

BRENDA


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Off to get my laundry done then a walk.

I have a lot of cleanup at this end. One of these days, I'll get to that yardwork, but today I think it's all indoor work.

Well, another 1/2 cup coffee and then I'll get going.

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Laundry done and walk in. It was raining when I went out but dry on my way back. It still wants to rain.

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Saturday, November 26, 2022 11:29 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Busy day...

Grandma and aunt came over since they didn't stop by on Thanksgiving, so I had about 4 hours of house cleanup before they got here. It was a nice visit.

I'd planned on just ripping down the wood that I needed to make something for my brother on the table saw and just make sure everything I needed to rip for the winter was done before it gets cold for good, but I ended up working until 10PM out in the garage and got most of the thing done.

Glued parts are clamped and drying. It'll be raining tomorrow but I think it's still over 50 for the high, so I might as well just get it done tomorrow.


It's a "sleeve" to put over his table next to his desk/TV stand that he's got his SMALL apple computer, his router and some other stuff I forget. He needs something that will protect all of that from his destructive cat, and right now he's got an exercise mat taped around things with duct tape and two couch pillows on top of it. It looks like crap, is a huge hassle for him to undo if he needs to change anything out, and doesn't really let the electronics breathe.

He wanted it made out of plywood, but that would have been heavy and fairly expensive. I built the skeleton from what was left of my pallet wood and a few 3 foot 1x6's I had. I was going to put full pieces of hardboard on both sides, but I don't have enough. So I ripped what I did have down to 2.5" widths and made slats with 1 5/8" gaps in between and glued them on and clamped them.

Now I've got enough for a solid sheet on the top and the front, and I'm going to either screw 4 washers on the front and top or glue 4 slugs from electric boxes onto the skeleton, and then I'm going to glue some hard drive magnets I've got so he'll have two panels that he can remove to get to what he needs to from the top and the front without having to take it back out.

I'll show you some pictures when I get around to it.





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Sunday, November 27, 2022 1:17 AM

BRENDA


Little bit of wind around where I am. Glass in balcony rattling.

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Sunday, November 27, 2022 1:18 AM

BRENDA


Sounds like you had a good day SIX.

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Sunday, November 27, 2022 1:53 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Sounds like you had a good day SIX.



Yeah. It was.

Tomorrow is only 44 and raining though. Our last 50 degree day isn't until Tuesday I guess. We'll see if I'm feeling like working in the cold and the rain. I won't really have to be going in and out once I get out there, but I did have to take all my batteries and the liquid nails back inside because of the cold temps overnight. Hopefully it's not raining all day. No reason to get up early since it won't even be hitting 40 degrees until the 9 o'clock hour.



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Sunday, November 27, 2022 2:06 PM

BRENDA


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Sounds like you had a good day SIX.



Yeah. It was.

Tomorrow is only 44 and raining though. Our last 50 degree day isn't until Tuesday I guess. We'll see if I'm feeling like working in the cold and the rain. I won't really have to be going in and out once I get out there, but I did have to take all my batteries and the liquid nails back inside because of the cold temps overnight. Hopefully it's not raining all day. No reason to get up early since it won't even be hitting 40 degrees until the 9 o'clock hour.



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That's good SIX.

My area is sitting at 40F now in the sun. But still calls for snow with rain. Just have to see. But I'm not doing anything today. Sunday the day I allow myself not to do anything.

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Sunday, November 27, 2022 2:07 PM

BRENDA


Just a quiet Sunday around me.

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Sunday, November 27, 2022 5:41 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Sounds like you had a good day SIX.



Yeah. It was.

Tomorrow is only 44 and raining though. Our last 50 degree day isn't until Tuesday I guess. We'll see if I'm feeling like working in the cold and the rain. I won't really have to be going in and out once I get out there, but I did have to take all my batteries and the liquid nails back inside because of the cold temps overnight. Hopefully it's not raining all day. No reason to get up early since it won't even be hitting 40 degrees until the 9 o'clock hour.



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That's good SIX.

My area is sitting at 40F now in the sun. But still calls for snow with rain. Just have to see. But I'm not doing anything today. Sunday the day I allow myself not to do anything.




It's nice doing nothing.


I didn't finish the unit, but I did get the front hardboard panel cut down to size and sanded the edges all smooth. I decided to screw in two washers in the 4 corners instead of trying to glue electric box slugs, and used super glue to put 4 hard drive magnets on the inside of the panel to "clip" onto the washer/screws. It works great!

The front panel probably doesn't need it, but I'm going to get some of the black rubber bumpers that I used for my kitchen cabinet doors to put in the middle of the screw/magnet combos for extra support since they do raise the panel off the frame. I'm definitely going to want to do that to the top where the cat is going to be jumping.

I'm also going to add a small panel to the back/top of the unit that sticks up just about 1/8th of an inch. That top panel is BIG and if I don't do that it will slip and hit the wall when my brother takes it off from the front, and without it being there for him to press into when setting it back into place I'm afraid he's going to have a bit of trouble putting the 4 magnets on right. Once they snap into place they're really tight and you can't really slide it into place after they clamp down. This will be a little guide that will help him match up perfectly with the depth and all he'll have to worry about is having it centered correctly before gently dropping it back into place.

I had to get my smallest brad nails and shoot 6 of them in each of the slats on the sides of the unit. I gave a light tug test to all of them, and every one seemed to be sturdy except for the middle that popped out of one where the glue apparently didn't do the job. So I didn't want to risk the cat would be rougher with it than my gentle pulling. It's rock solid now.

I also started taking apart a microwave my neighbors threw out to get the good bits out of it, but then it got real cold and I was done for the day.

47 and sunny tomorrow and 55 and rainy on Tuesday, so I'm sure I'll be able to finish both projects and get the garage cleaned up for my car that hopefully gets finished this week.

That will be just about the end of my projects out in the garage until April or so.



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Sunday, November 27, 2022 7:23 PM

BRENDA


It is nice doing nothing on occasion.

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Sunday, November 27, 2022 11:55 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


You seem to have found balance.

I'm still struggling with it.

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Monday, November 28, 2022 12:02 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Doing my best to resist the Black Friday itch here.

Home Depot just so happens to have 4 of the cordless power tools I've been looking for in a combo sale. But I know that if I buy them at a different time I can get them cheaper when the right 2pack combos come up. They're throwing in a charger and two of the small batteries with it, and I've already given away 2 chargers and I don't need any more small batteries. But it's got the better of the two router models, the better of the two rotary tools, the random orbital sander I've been wanting for a year or two and a glue gun... but the glue gun isn't the version with two heat settings, so it's not really the one I want.

I'm also looking at newegg at a bunch of things around the $5 price point... various useful adapters, 2.5" drive cases and hubs... but that's been leading me down a rabbit hole where I'm already finding over $50 of stuff I don't really need.

I'll probably end up buying nothing like I usually do after spending a few hours just window shopping.

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Monday, November 28, 2022 9:49 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I hate how much more I pay attention to politics when the weather gets cold.

What I need to do is get this house finished and more efficiently heated so I can have a proper workspace in my basement for project work to keep my mind away from such things. TV and Movies hold no interest for me, my computer project gets kind of dangerous since I can lose days at a time in it and not be properly keeping up with anything else if I go too far down that rabbit hole, and these short days when the sun is down before 4:30PM really screws with my mood and sleep schedule.

I didn't buy anything for Black Friday... yet. But I still have about a billion tabs open and a few carts full of stuff that I probably won't buy.

My goal today is to finish my brother's computer sleeve and to get that microwave taken apart so I can get the useful stuff out and put the rest on the curb Wednesday night. Then I'll spend the "warm" Wednesday cleaning the garage for the year and making sure I didn't forget to weatherize something. I should put starting my snow blower in the mix too. Don't want to find out there's a problem when I need it.



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Monday, November 28, 2022 1:23 PM

BRENDA


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You seem to have found balance.

I'm still struggling with it.

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It is a struggle and it took me years to get to it. But I'm glad that I finally managed to do it.

You'll get there. It takes time.

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Monday, November 28, 2022 1:24 PM

BRENDA


Out for my walk on a bright sunny day. But probably cold. Sitting at 1C which is 32F.

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Monday, November 28, 2022 3:55 PM

SIGNYM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I hate how much more I pay attention to politics when the weather gets cold.

I listen to geopolitics when I'm in the kitchen, which is almost every day. But when I can't get my rear in gear I spend way too much time posting, which feels like I'm following an elephant parade with a pooper scooper!

So let's focus on something else. You're a really bright guy, SIX, and unafraid of learning. And you learn really quickly.

How about teaching someone something. In person, or online? Or extending your knowledge into another field? Car repair?

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What I need to do is get this house finished and more efficiently heated so I can have a proper workspace in my basement for project work to keep my mind away from such things. TV and Movies hold no interest for me, my computer project gets kind of dangerous since I can lose days at a time in it and not be properly keeping up with anything else if I go too far down that rabbit hole, and these short days when the sun is down before 4:30PM really screws with my mood and sleep schedule.
Well, there's that too!

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I didn't buy anything for Black Friday... yet. But I still have about a billion tabs open and a few carts full of stuff that I probably won't buy.
That's what I do. I fill up my cart. Sometimes I put several choices of the same type... fittings, plants, plumbing supplies... let it sit for a few days to a week, then go back and weed it down. A lot.

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My goal today is to finish my brother's computer sleeve and to get that microwave taken apart so I can get the useful stuff out and put the rest on the curb Wednesday night. Then I'll spend the "warm" Wednesday cleaning the garage for the year and making sure I didn't forget to weatherize something. I should put starting my snow blower in the mix too. Don't want to find out there's a problem when I need it.
What useful stuff in a microwave??? Just curious.



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Monday, November 28, 2022 5:13 PM

BRENDA


Back from my walk and still bright and sunny out. Not too cold as the temp has bumped up to 3C which is 36F. Have to see if the snow and rain arrives tonight.

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Monday, November 28, 2022 5:26 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I finished my brother's computer sleeve this afternoon. I'll get around to sorting out my pictures and get pics of that and the entryway table up soonish.

Tore that microwave apart and got a cool additional thing that I've never grabbed out of one since none of the others were wall units that vented out. (I saw your message Sigs and will properly reply to all of that later).

I did a little cleanup but boy when that sun goes down it drops quick. Done for the day. I'm ahead of schedule for once, so I should have a good Tuesday and make the most of the 55 degrees. Time to get cleaned up. That freakin' microwave was GROSS!!!



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Monday, November 28, 2022 5:54 PM

SIGNYM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You seem to have found balance.
I'm still struggling with it.

BRENDA: It is a struggle and it took me years to get to it. But I'm glad that I finally managed to do it.

You'll get there. It takes time.

I think what BRENDA has, that I don't quite have, is a consistent schedule - dauky, weekly, perhaps even monthly.

I don't think you function that way, SIX. Someone I know very well seems to be like you: when he's "on" he's on 150%. Perhaps even more than you: hyperfocused on a project or process for days/weeks/ months at a time. When immersed in something entirely losing track of time. In between projects kind of torpid. You can at least switch up from day to day. Not sure he can.

Some people are more suited to chipping away at things. Putting in consistent but smaller effort on a variety of things, which can be scheduled more easily.

Some people, like one person I know, flit from one thing to anyone a random pattern. That, I think, is an attention problem. Neither the intense productivity with your kind of intense energy nor the consistent day to day effort.

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Monday, November 28, 2022 8:51 PM

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I hate how much more I pay attention to politics when the weather gets cold.

I listen to geopolitics when I'm in the kitchen, which is almost every day. But when I can't get my rear in gear I spend way too much time posting, which feels like I'm following an elephant parade with a pooper scooper!



At the end of the day, isn't it almost just a big waste of time? My life changed a lot while Trump was President, but that didn't have anything to do with it. That was me getting sober and then finally getting around to getting my house in order. Literally. So many old skills brushed up on and improved. So many new things learned. So many new tools acquired, both literally and figuratively. Fixing relationships. Constant flow of compliments from neighbors who I'm sure hated having me as their neighbor when I was drunk 24/7 and let everything go to hell.

If it wasn't for Covid screwing with everybody's head for so long and the fallout from that, almost nothing has really changed in the real world as far as I'm concerned. Not while Trump was President. Not these last two years. The prices might be a little more now, but other than that everything is still copacetic.

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So let's focus on something else. You're a really bright guy, SIX, and unafraid of learning. And you learn really quickly.

How about teaching someone something. In person, or online? Or extending your knowledge into another field? Car repair?



I don't know how I'd go about teaching stuff to people. Not that I couldn't do it, but I don't know how I'd find somebody to teach. Anybody in my circle either doesn't have any interest in what I know or already knows it. Although, I my friend's dad did some electrical work in my friend's garage a few weeks back and he told me that he took a cue from a couple of things I showed him that I did in both my garage and my shed and he did it like I did.

I thought that was pretty freakin' awesome since he's the guy who taught me how to do electric over 20 years ago in the first place.



As for doing something else, I think I'd like to start getting into woodworking and furniture making. I think I really have a knack for it. It would be a long time before I was able to make any profit off of it though. I'm too slow at things right now to make it viable, and I have a LOT of tools that I'd need to buy. That's part of my dilemma right now. Boy... if I could bring myself to buy that desktop planer for $360, that would be huge. There's a whole lot of furniture I could start building just using pallet wood if I had that tool to smooth it out for me.

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What I need to do is get this house finished and more efficiently heated so I can have a proper workspace in my basement for project work to keep my mind away from such things. TV and Movies hold no interest for me, my computer project gets kind of dangerous since I can lose days at a time in it and not be properly keeping up with anything else if I go too far down that rabbit hole, and these short days when the sun is down before 4:30PM really screws with my mood and sleep schedule.
Well, there's that too!


Yeah... I'll get there.

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I didn't buy anything for Black Friday... yet. But I still have about a billion tabs open and a few carts full of stuff that I probably won't buy.
That's what I do. I fill up my cart. Sometimes I put several choices of the same type... fittings, plants, plumbing supplies... let it sit for a few days to a week, then go back and weed it down. A lot.


Yeah. I don't have a week. Half of the deals end at midnight tonight, the other half are good until midnight on the 30th. Not even sure what timezone that is, so it's possible if I waited until midnight and decided to purchase some of them it might already be too late.

I've been doing the "several of the same type" thing too.

In my case right, it's tools, tool combo kits, hard drive enclosures and SD cards.

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My goal today is to finish my brother's computer sleeve and to get that microwave taken apart so I can get the useful stuff out and put the rest on the curb Wednesday night. Then I'll spend the "warm" Wednesday cleaning the garage for the year and making sure I didn't forget to weatherize something. I should put starting my snow blower in the mix too. Don't want to find out there's a problem when I need it.
What useful stuff in a microwave??? Just curious.




The transformers are gold. I've got four of them right now. With a vice, a hacksaw, a little extra heavy gauge wire and some other steps I can't pull up from memory right now, I can make my own arc welder with only two of them. And without any extra parts I can make an electromagnet out of just one of them.

There's also two very useful super powerful doughnut magnets inside of the magnetron. I've got 6 of those already, so this time I just took the unit out and didn't destroy it to get to the magnets. It appears that there might be some cool things I can do with an intact magnetron that I may want to try out before I'd have any need for another two of those magnets. You've also got the motor for the turntable which can be useful. And normally you have a very similar motor that comes with a fan that resembles a computer fan without the housing, but because this was a vented unit it didn't have that. But what it did have was a huge motor at the top with two cylindrical fans that remind me of large versions of the paint stirring attachment I have for my drill. I don't know what I'd do with that, but I've never seen one before. There's a capacitor in there as well, and quite a few resistors and other bits on the electrical board that can be de-soldered. Not sure what I'd do with all of that yet, but I have a tote for bits like this that I've removed from things, and if I ever wanted to build something all of these parts are pretty darn expensive if you buy them new. Dead or redundant microwaves are a great source for free electronic parts.

It's also nice to separate all of the metal from the plastic so I can leave the metal out for the light haulers and it doesn't end up in the trash.



Careful with the capacitor though if you ever take one apart yourself. You've got to make sure it's discharged before you fiddle with it or you could end up killing yourself. No joke.

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Monday, November 28, 2022 9:06 PM

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You seem to have found balance.

I'm still struggling with it.

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It is a struggle and it took me years to get to it. But I'm glad that I finally managed to do it.

You'll get there. It takes time.



Yeah. I envy you.

I'm better than before. Always a work in progress though.



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Monday, November 28, 2022 9:12 PM

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You seem to have found balance.
I'm still struggling with it.

BRENDA: It is a struggle and it took me years to get to it. But I'm glad that I finally managed to do it.

You'll get there. It takes time.

I think what BRENDA has, that I don't quite have, is a consistent schedule - dauky, weekly, perhaps even monthly.



I don't have ANY schedule. Most days I could very well simply choose not to do anything of importance. If I wanted to, I could stay up all night into the afternoon working on my computer project or just playing video games and sleep all day tomorrow instead of taking advantage of what might be the last nice day until winter is done. And there have been many, many, many days where I did just that. Even after I sobered up too even, but particularly when I was drinking.

Near total freedom is nice, but boy you've got to be good at keeping yourself motivated and not falling into bad habits. These are learned skills.

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I don't think you function that way, SIX. Someone I know very well seems to be like you: when he's "on" he's on 150%. Perhaps even more than you: hyperfocused on a project or process for days/weeks/ months at a time. When immersed in something entirely losing track of time. In between projects kind of torpid. You can at least switch up from day to day. Not sure he can.

Some people are more suited to chipping away at things. Putting in consistent but smaller effort on a variety of things, which can be scheduled more easily.

Some people, like one person I know, flit from one thing to anyone a random pattern. That, I think, is an attention problem. Neither the intense productivity with your kind of intense energy nor the consistent day to day effort.



I wasn't always able to switch it up. That's been a more recent development. It still gnaws at me when I leave one project unfinished to jump to another one, but I have to train myself to be more adaptable. It just makes good sense for a lot of different reasons. There's no way I would have been able to achieve what I did this spring through fall if I hyper-focused on one thing at a time. I just have to not let it demoralize me that nearly every project I've got going on is around 80 to 90% finished and almost nothing is 100% complete. I've got to take a few steps back and look at how much the overall project has progressed, even if aside from my garage, two of my 4 closets and my pantry I can't really say that any single room in my house is finished and the outside of the house may still take years for me to chip away at.

But thank god for digital photos. I can always go back and look at what things looked like 3 years ago compared to where I've got them now and remember the dark and dreary filth I had surrounded myself in and compare it to how nice things are looking today.



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Monday, November 28, 2022 10:10 PM

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Well then, you've made a lot more progress on changing your work style than I have.
I'm only (very!) rarely an intensely -focused person, altho there are times it could be very useful.
Usually, the dog takes me for a walk every day, and the family doesn't appreciate late meals, so I'm kept somewhat on a schedule.

It would be great if we could just switch on certain personality traits, wouldn't it?

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Monday, November 28, 2022 11:43 PM

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You seem to have found balance.

I'm still struggling with it.

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It is a struggle and it took me years to get to it. But I'm glad that I finally managed to do it.

You'll get there. It takes time.



Yeah. I envy you.

I'm better than before. Always a work in progress though.



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Well, with looking after my mom and then helping Blair before he died. I've had a lot of things to unlearn especially in regard to my mom. So, I'm trying to take it easier on myself now.

You definitely are and you should be proud of what you have accomplished.

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Monday, November 28, 2022 11:45 PM

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Talk of snow around me tomorrow in the afternoon. Have to see what shows up.

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Tuesday, November 29, 2022 12:41 AM

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Well then, you've made a lot more progress on changing your work style than I have.
I'm only (very!) rarely an intensely -focused person, altho there are times it could be very useful.



Oh... I'm still super intense and it nags at me in the back of my head when things are left unfinished. I've just had to switch from thing to thing this summer. The biggest reason was I had to drop everything I was doing when my friend's dad finally started making good on the work he owed me for over a year. (He did finally square up, BTW).

The other reason is cutting down on waste. Both wasted product and wasted time. If I know I'm going to be primering 8 different unrelated things, it makes sense to have all 8 things prepped for prime at one time rather than clean the brush and waste 1/3 of a gallon over time. Same with caulk and liquid nails and watertite too. Much less time wasted doing cleanup that way too... especially when I'm making a mess of my garage. Why clean up the garage once or twice a week when I can do a ton of stuff in there all at once and just clean it up once?

The trick is not to make it TOO MUCH at once though. I've still got 100 things I need to prime at some point, but if I spent all summer prepping everything I wouldn't have even started priming anything yet.



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Usually, the dog takes me for a walk every day, and the family doesn't appreciate late meals, so I'm kept somewhat on a schedule.


I hear ya, although I can't relate. I'm never joking when I say I have zero obligations. That will change when my old man is no longer around to look after my brother, but for right now it's really all on me to keep myself motivated and working. It's why it's so easy for me to slip into a streak of depression and not get back up for a while. That happens less frequently these days than in the past, but winter is always hard. Last winter was almost a complete waste. I got hooked on a couple of PC games and there had to be about a 2.5 month stretch where nothing of value was done.

This time I did bury myself in my computer project for a week when it was really cold though, and after I got back from visting my brother I've been managing to keep busy with physical project work, and prepping most of the stuff I need in my basement for work I need to do during the winter that I can't do in the garage becasue of the temp. But when I was working on that computer project I had a few nights where I slowly started creeping from 12AM bedtimes to 4AM bedtimes. I can really get wrapped up in that and even though I know there's no reason to be staying up that late because there's always tomorrow, I get a bit OCD about it.

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It would be great if we could just switch on certain personality traits, wouldn't it?



If you find a way to do it, tell me how.





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Tuesday, November 29, 2022 12:48 AM

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Well, with looking after my mom and then helping Blair before he died. I've had a lot of things to unlearn especially in regard to my mom. So, I'm trying to take it easier on myself now.



For a long time on these boards my signature was "Do right, be right".

As long as you're doing that, no sense in being hard on yourself, right?

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You definitely are and you should be proud of what you have accomplished.





I try not to be as hard on myself as I used to be. It's easier these days because even though I always fall back into a slump eventually, I know that I'm doing right with more of my time than not.

But it's still a long way for me before I find balance.



But it's a worthwhile goal.




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Tuesday, November 29, 2022 1:01 AM

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Speaking of balance, I made a compromise with myself and bought some new toys.

It turns out I was right about that 4-tool set with the battery and charger. I really wasn't going to save much at all on it. Maybe about $20 with a free charger I didn't need and a 13th battery that I really didn't need either.

So I ended up only buying the cheap glue gun that was on sale for $20 instead of $35, and really treated myself with a cordless hand planer that was $70 instead of $100. The glue gun isn't the dual temp one, but that isn't on sale and it's $80. I've never had a glue gun before, although I bought a ton of glue sticks that were free after rebate a year or two ago, and now I have one. If I decide down the road I want a dual temp gun I can give that one away or just have a backup.

The planer is going to be AWESOME. When I can get my hands on more pallets down the road, I will be able to use it to turn ratty old pallet wood into furniture quality stuff. Sure... I'd love to buy a table top planer, but the one I was looking at for almost $400 didn't get very good reviews, and if I want a Dewalt or Milwaukee we're talking like $650 to $800. Let's start with the small one and see what I can do with it first, right?

I still really need a random orbital sander, but the only sale they had was that and a corner cat sander for about $5 more than the ROS would have been on its own. That's a PHENOMENAL deal, but I already have the corner cat sander that I got with the same deal a few years back but with the square palm sander instead. I'm sure if I'm patient I'll see the random orbital sander for a good deal alone or bundled with a tool I haven't already gotten. When I finally do buy one, I have TONS of hook and loop sand paper in various grit for it. I bought a lot of boxes full of them that were something like $7.99 each but only $0.99 after rebate. I think I have like 12 boxes that have 20 pieces each.

I really didn't need that cordless router. I already have a badass corded one. The problem with it is that it's so big and beefy that it's not great for using by hand. What I really need to do is get a table for it. That would be better than a cordless version anyhow then. The one I got I bought off of a guy who's dad died and he was looking to get rid of his woodworking equipment. It's a pro piece.

And as nice as that rotary tool looks, I did just buy one at Harbor Freight a while back. It's a POS that only cost me a few bucks on sale, but until I really need one and/or can get it on a good sale, it will do me. The only reason I bought that cheap one is because I thought it would help me get the candle wax off that entryway table, but it was of no use for that. I would have shredded that basket weave for sure with it.


I also bought a few small electronics things that will give a boost to the ol' quality of life. Most notably a bluetooth dongle for my computer where I've got my music stored. I have a portable speaker with great bass that does bluetooth, but I only ever use the small SD card inside of it that has like 75 songs on it. Now I should be able to take that into any room in the house and listen to my full music library and not hear the same songs everyday.






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Tuesday, November 29, 2022 9:50 AM

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I really like your "Do right, be right" signature.

Even tho you don't use it anymore, I occasionally think it bc it's very centering.

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Tuesday, November 29, 2022 11:56 AM

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Just heard from my friend. He's coming by to drop off some other things he had including a few items from his bathroom before he remodeled it. I already got the pedestal sink and oak medicine cabinet, but he's got the over vanity lights which are a lot nicer than the crap in my bathroom and a few other things in his car that he wants to drop off after work.

He's not sure when we're moving the furniture to my place yet, but it will be this week or early next week.

He just asked me if I'd be willing to help him take apart that pool table and transport it back to his place and help him paint the small basement in exchange for that fireplace heater. Absolutely.

That's exactly what I hoped would be the outcome here. That's about a $400 unit when it's not on sale. I'm not a huge fan of moving heavy things, but I love painting. And I already offered to help him move the pool table regardless.



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Tuesday, November 29, 2022 1:04 PM

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Well, with looking after my mom and then helping Blair before he died. I've had a lot of things to unlearn especially in regard to my mom. So, I'm trying to take it easier on myself now.



For a long time on these boards my signature was "Do right, be right".

As long as you're doing that, no sense in being hard on yourself, right?

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You definitely are and you should be proud of what you have accomplished.





I try not to be as hard on myself as I used to be. It's easier these days because even though I always fall back into a slump eventually, I know that I'm doing right with more of my time than not.

But it's still a long way for me before I find balance.



But it's a worthwhile goal.




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It was.

My thing was that I got into this routine with my mom especially where everything was a rush in the last few years of her life with doctors and hospitals. It can be very hard to get out of that mentality. I still every so often fall back into it.

True. But like they say old habits are hard to break. And that one keeps sneaking back up on me.

Balance is.

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Tuesday, November 29, 2022 1:06 PM

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Well, weather still calling for so but so far none in my area. But I've got to be prepared when I go out just incase it arrives when I am out. Need my meds and make a dental appointment for next year.

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It was.

My thing was that I got into this routine with my mom especially where everything was a rush in the last few years of her life with doctors and hospitals. It can be very hard to get out of that mentality. I still every so often fall back into it.

True. But like they say old habits are hard to break. And that one keeps sneaking back up on me.

Balance is.



Trust me. I know the feeling of rushing. If I didn't waste so much time, then everything wouldn't be a rush when I'm working on it. Add to that me being a perfectionist, and it's like my psyche is tearing itself in half sometimes.

But now that I finally feel like I'm starting to get ahead of it, I'm able to have downtime without feeling so guilty about it these days. Boy... it will be nice to finally have the house done and only have to worry about regular maintenance stuff. I'm still a few years away from that, but I'm hoping I can really start to find the balance at that point.



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