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Wow.

For this year or last year?


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It was for 2020. It came from the US and the lady who sent it said she was getting her cards late in the mail. But the hold up with its delivery must have been at the border because the post mark says and I kid you not on this "Dec.19,2020."

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Though the doors are not my 'style' (I prefer a simple Shaker-style) I thought the paint job looked really good!

FWIW I also prefer a painted look, as long as the paint stays hard and doesn't get tacky with weather and/ or time. (But that's true of any wood finish. Literally tacky finishes are a real pain to deal with day to day.)

There's just not too many woods where I like the figure-and-grain, or color, or both ... except on floors. IDK why, it's just a preference.

I'll say that the one exception was the wardrobe I saw in an antique store, where the wood was essentially neutral brown (no red, green, or yellow undertones) light through dark-medium tones of maple syrup, and the grain was more like a subtle set of highlights that glinted differently depending on how the light shone on it, a bit like a 'tiger eye' gemstone.

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As a piece I thought it was beautiful. But I wouldn't want a whole wall of it!

I also did see the grain come through a bit. That's of interest to me because at some point I hope to (carefully) remove some of the drywall and replace it with borate-treated (anti-insect) interior plywood as internal shear panels with one A-face to the inside. If it can be painted to look nice, I won't have to reinstall the drywall there.

Good luck on the bleed-through! I had significant bleed-through on my home's exterior since the wood siding is either cedar or redwood, with lots of natural tannins that came through. And Signy had curry-bleed through when she cleaned and painted the apartment! So we both know what a chore bleed-through can be!

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Wow.

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It was for 2020. It came from the US and the lady who sent it said she was getting her cards late in the mail. But the hold up with its delivery must have been at the border because the post mark says and I kid you not on this "Dec.19,2020."

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I'm not surprised.

I sent my sister a box of N95s on Dec 12. A day later (bc I forgot I had to fill out a customs form) I sent our friend in Toronto HIS box. Well, Xmas comes and Xmas goes and neither has received their package.

Sis got hers towards the end of the first week in January, and friend got his about mid-January. He was so concerned I emailed him the tracking number which showed it left the LA postal terminal Dec 14, but what happened after that.... ?

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Wow.

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It was for 2020. It came from the US and the lady who sent it said she was getting her cards late in the mail. But the hold up with its delivery must have been at the border because the post mark says and I kid you not on this "Dec.19,2020."

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lol wow. That's just nuts.


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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

BRENDA!!!!


Your computer is zapping you??!!!!?? Holy crap!

THAT'S NOT SAFE.



(Unless it's just static electricity and you're getting zapped by everything metal.)

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Speaking mail... BRENDA and KIKI, see if you can get "Signed, Sealed, and Delivered" originally a Hallmark series. It's very sweet, a nice watch. In like it because the characters are decent people, and unlike most American TV series there's very little crime and vengeance.

I contrast that with "Tin Star" which we started watching, but nearly every character in it is corrupt, stupid, or psychopathic, and it turned into such a murder- fest I just couldn't stomach it anymore.

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La Bamba!


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La Bamba!


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My mother loved that film and it is good. :) But he is a very good actor.

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JACK! There was a light dusting of snow last night around my local library but then it turned into rain and that got washed away. Little snow and more rain this morning before I went out for my walk.

The rain has dried up now and so we see if there is more rain tonight.

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La Bamba!


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My mother loved that film and it is good. :) But he is a very good actor.

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LDP is The Talent. How could you watch anything with that dude in it and not like it?

I remember La Bamba summer very well.

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JACK! There was a light dusting of snow last night around my local library but then it turned into rain and that got washed away. Little snow and more rain this morning before I went out for my walk.

The rain has dried up now and so we see if there is more rain tonight.

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The icon for my internet has taken a powder and I can't see to figure out how to bring it back.

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Hmmmm.... I wonder if I caught a cold, or if I've just been subjecting myself to too many fumes recently. Primer today is generally safe, but it's not as if I've been going outside all that much, and I've got something drying 24/7 in the house when I'm not right up on it painting it.

Just feeling a bit run down at the moment. Haven't been sleeping well recently. Hopefully I get a good sleep tonight and don't wake up at the ass crack of dawn like I seem to no matter what time I finally drift off.


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Could be too many fumes, and/or not enough sleep.

A couple of nights of good sleep and a couple of days off of exposure should help.

Is there some routine that you can follow to help you get to sleep earlier/faster?

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Probably stop watching YouTube and falling into the void every night would help.

But my problem is having to get up to go to the bathroom. I seem to be on a cycle where that's happening after 6AM recently, and if the sun is already up once I wake up, there's no way I'm going back to sleep. Not a problem if I wake up at 2 or 3 AM though.

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Just for the sake of completeness, I feel compelled to mention carbon monoxide. Is your house especially well-sealed? Have you been using your heater a lot? Anyway, the symptoms are headache, nausea, aches and pains and fatigue, just like a flu.

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That's always been a concern of mine. We've actually talked about it in here back before I got into shape again. The heater is ancient and it's running about 50% of the time right now. Unlike the last few winters, I've been indoors nearly all the time.

I have actually been waking up to aches and pains in my feet recently, and I have noticed that while holding doors and shelves during the painting process I have to re-adjust and/or put them down and shake my hand a bit. I've even been clumsily dropping things from time to time again, which actually made me question out loud to myself yesterday if it's MS warning signs. It's been a while since I've had any of those problems.

So it's pain and fatigue. Times where the mucus buildup is pretty heavy. No headaches or nausea. My appetite is fine.

And as for headaches, I rarely have ever gotten them in my life, even when I was hungover. And since I drink a tanker truck of coffee in a year, I think it would have to be pretty bad for me to ever get one.

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Oh, I didn't mean you had to love La Bamaba.

I was just posting a rhetorical question. Dude just oozes charisma.


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The icon for my internet has taken a powder and I can't see to figure out how to bring it back.

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You mean your browser icon?

You seem to have gotten into FFF.net OK. How did you get here?

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Have I mentioned that I really, really hate static electricity. Seriously put a plate in the kitchen walked across the carpet to my chair. Sat down and touched this stupid laptop and got zapped.

I so hate static electricity.

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So KIKI been tracking this "atmospheric river" now and again.

The best overall description that I got was that the firehose was originally aimed at norcal, but then it swung south so quickly that SFO central cal didn't get much rain, got as far south as San Luis Obispo where it stalled for a couple of days, leading to as much as 12" of rain and 7' of snow in the Sierras, b4 swinging north again. Still predicted to head back south, I'm predicted to get almost 2" rain starting this evening and thru Friday, you're predicted to get about 2.5" last I checked.

Better boogie off to do grocery shopping before it rains.
Ta ta!

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Have I mentioned that I really, really hate static electricity. Seriously put a plate in the kitchen walked across the carpet to my chair. Sat down and touched this stupid laptop and got zapped.

I so hate static electricity.

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Try getting a humidifier. Or at put a pan of water on the stove, set on low. Or drape a wet towel underneath/ in front of your heater registers. Those should humidify the air enough to suppress the static, I hope!


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I read about your progress and sigh, SIX. I'm dipping back into aches, pain, and fatigue and this time I don't know why.

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I hope I'm not making you feel like you're not getting stuff accomplished.

I just talked to my bud who's been tracking my progress on an album I have and although he knows better than to give me too much shit about being a perfectionist and working at my own pace, he clearly thinks I'm insane.



He might be right... At the rate this job is going, I might very well be doing my living out of cardboard boxes clogging up my livingroom floor for the next two months.

I've been getting the aches and pains too... Possibly due to prolonged carbon monoxide exposure, being cooped up in my house nearly 24/7 while that heat is going on 50% of the time.

Today when I woke up, I actually had a "sensation" I haven't woke up with a long time now, and that was a little "clicking" going on when I balled up my left fist, that went away after I did it a few times. That's the hand I'm using to hold the doors during the first part of the painting that has been hurting more every day I do it.

I finally got some extra sleep today and managed to grab a few extra hours nap. Late start to my day for sure, but it's a paint only shift today with no scuff sanding, and I've got 10 more pieces ready to go tomorrow when I start a new 6 piece shift. If I get only two more pieces stripped and sanded in the next 6 days, I'll have enough for the 6 days after that too.

Got most of my tax stuff done. I just have to print it out and fill out the things I don't want to fill out on my computer by hand and sign them. Shouldn't be long before I get those returns, since I live in Indiana. My brother had to wait until September of last year to finally get his Illinois return because Illinois.

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So I've just been doing day-today stuff ... keeping up more or less wtih cooking, shopping, cleaning etc. Went with hubby to his doctor's appt, had a telemed myself, so that took up a bunch of time, too. Also helped hubby glue up more of the bedframe.

Since rain is preventing me from much-needed yardwork, I suppose I should turn my attention indoors. Just trying to get up the steam to do it.

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GREAT!

My area - not so much. There was ~1.5" predicted, a bit over a half inch in my cachepot rain gauge, and ~1" at the Santa Fe Dam. So you flatlanders once again got more than the foothills.

STILL! I'm glad it wasn't a total bust and you and probably others got so much more!

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