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Yeah... I know all about exposed roots. We're trying to do the best we can to keep the remaining bottom teeth so the partial still works, but eventually I'm going to lose them all and have to use the paste for the bottom denture. At least my upper mouth was made for a denture and provides its own suction. My aunt has two full dentures and she has to paste both of them.




I painted all the kitchen trim all the way around to the staircase trim and a bit of the old baseboard up to behind my curio cabinet I restored a few years back. The difference between that baseboard being painted and the old look is night and day. I'm definitely going to get that done over the winter and wrap my way all around to the front door that needs to be patched up and painted. Once that's done, I'll actually have my first room in the house I can say is completely done.

I noticed while painting the kitchen door trim that there's a TON of debris on top of my fridge from when I was sanding things over there. I'm going to have to clean that up and then pull out the fridge to make sure the back of the fridge and the wall and baseboard back there are nice and clean too. I want to clean up the things that are going to go back into the kitchen before I move them there first too.

Tomorrow I'm going to be helping a friend install a new sliding patio door. I wish it wasn't going to be during the middle of the cold winter, but what are you gonna do? It's not my heat bill.



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Originally posted by Brenda:
Back and done for today. Made a miscalculation at mah jong today and it cost me all 4 flowers of one colour. Oh well. There is always next week.

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Yeah... I know all about exposed roots. We're trying to do the best we can to keep the remaining bottom teeth so the partial still works, but eventually I'm going to lose them all and have to use the paste for the bottom denture. At least my upper mouth was made for a denture and provides its own suction. My aunt has two full dentures and she has to paste both of them.




I painted all the kitchen trim all the way around to the staircase trim and a bit of the old baseboard up to behind my curio cabinet I restored a few years back. The difference between that baseboard being painted and the old look is night and day. I'm definitely going to get that done over the winter and wrap my way all around to the front door that needs to be patched up and painted. Once that's done, I'll actually have my first room in the house I can say is completely done.

I noticed while painting the kitchen door trim that there's a TON of debris on top of my fridge from when I was sanding things over there. I'm going to have to clean that up and then pull out the fridge to make sure the back of the fridge and the wall and baseboard back there are nice and clean too. I want to clean up the things that are going to go back into the kitchen before I move them there first too.

Tomorrow I'm going to be helping a friend install a new sliding patio door. I wish it wasn't going to be during the middle of the cold winter, but what are you gonna do? It's not my heat bill.



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I know what you mean about the paste stuff. My mom had full dentures top and bottom and once in a while she would use it but not often.

My dad had a partial on the bottom and full on the top but he never used anything.

I luckily enough still have enough teeth on the bottom not to need anything right now. Mind there is a problem with some bony bits behind the teeth that would make a partial hard to make. They may have been caused by jaw surgery that I had done in high school.

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Back and done for today. Made a miscalculation at mah jong today and it cost me all 4 flowers of one colour. Oh well. There is always next week.

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Well, as you said, there's always next time.

I hope your errand in the rain goes smoothly

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Yeah... I know all about exposed roots. We're trying to do the best we can to keep the remaining bottom teeth so the partial still works, but eventually I'm going to lose them all and have to use the paste for the bottom denture. At least my upper mouth was made for a denture and provides its own suction. My aunt has two full dentures and she has to paste both of them.




I painted all the kitchen trim all the way around to the staircase trim and a bit of the old baseboard up to behind my curio cabinet I restored a few years back. The difference between that baseboard being painted and the old look is night and day. I'm definitely going to get that done over the winter and wrap my way all around to the front door that needs to be patched up and painted. Once that's done, I'll actually have my first room in the house I can say is completely done.

I noticed while painting the kitchen door trim that there's a TON of debris on top of my fridge from when I was sanding things over there. I'm going to have to clean that up and then pull out the fridge to make sure the back of the fridge and the wall and baseboard back there are nice and clean too. I want to clean up the things that are going to go back into the kitchen before I move them there first too.

Tomorrow I'm going to be helping a friend install a new sliding patio door. I wish it wasn't going to be during the middle of the cold winter, but what are you gonna do? It's not my heat bill.



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I know what you mean about the paste stuff. My mom had full dentures top and bottom and once in a while she would use it but not often.

My dad had a partial on the bottom and full on the top but he never used anything.

I luckily enough still have enough teeth on the bottom not to need anything right now. Mind there is a problem with some bony bits behind the teeth that would make a partial hard to make. They may have been caused by jaw surgery that I had done in high school.

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Yeah. Keep whatever teeth you can. I'll be using paste at some point. I'm honestly surprised we've made it this far without any more teeth getting pulled. The problem is, especially with the bone loss issue I had, is that once you lose one, then it is kind of a domino effect. And then that popcorn shard that caused me problems a year or two ago now started another weak front in the middle on one side that wasn't there before, likely doubling the speed of the problem on that side.

Oh well... That's problems for future Jack to deal with.





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Oh squee someone set off either a heat or smoke detector this morning as I was sitting down to breakfast and take my meds. I got downstairs to find out someone on the 7th floor decided to burn some incense in the wrong spot and set everything off. Fire department came and checked it out then turned off the alarm.

Sitting down now with some lunch and will get some music on.

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Oh squee someone set off either a heat or smoke detector this morning as I was sitting down to breakfast and take my meds. I got downstairs to find out someone on the 7th floor decided to burn some incense in the wrong spot and set everything off. Fire department came and checked it out then turned off the alarm.

Sitting down now with some lunch and will get some music on.

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Oh no. Did they make everyone leave the building?

I was at my brother's apartment with my old man during the summer and somebody set off the new alarm system they had.

It was INSANELY loud. Like ear-damagingly loud. In every apartment and every hallway. The only way to escape it was to leave the building.

At least it was nice outside when it happened though.

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My friend's dad died today.

He was a great man. He was a mentor and a second father to me. Half of everything I ever learned in my life that's worth a damn I learned from him.

Always the person to diffuse any tense situation and a positive influence on anyone lucky enough to have been a part of his world, I'd never seen him angry, or short tempered or without an overabundance of patience and understanding.

The world lost a great soul today and is just a little darker because of that.

If it wasn't for the help that he and his son had given when I needed it, I may very well have still had a gaping hole for a floor in there when my reassessment came down on me this year and who knows... They might have condemned the house because of that, or at least given me a notice that I had a short period of time to fix it at the very least.

Though I never did get to show him the finished room, he told me last year when I got around to putting the finishing touches on my porch that I needed to come up with a name for it when I finished it.

I've got a name for it now. It's going to be named in his honor.

Love you brother. I told my Grams to go find you and show you around the place.



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I can't figure out what might be going on, but it may have something to do with the kind of insulin your pump uses and whatever time lag or averaging the meter might be doing.

It kind of makes sense to me, altho it's hard for me to explain, that the response time of the insulin and of the meter/ pump combination have to be matched.

For example, it wouldn't make sense for a fast-responding meter and pump to be using a slow-acting insulin. Say that the meter detects high blood sugar and it meters out a slow-acting insulin. Half hour later, blood sugar is STILL too high, so it meters out MORE insulin. Another half hour later, the slow-acting insulin has just barely started to bring blood sugar down, so it meters out even MORE insulin. Could get in serious trouble that way!

I also imagine that there's some kind of built-in averaging function to the meter and pump, otherwise it would be reacting to every little sugar twitch.

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Back and in from the rain. No luck today. Was raining and nasty this morning. Seems to be drying out now. Phone is working as two people have called me.

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Back and in from the rain. No luck today. Was raining and nasty this morning. Seems to be drying out now. Phone is working as two people have called me.

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I'm glad it's working again!
I hope your tomorrow is dry.


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Well, I'm back on steroids. As Dr. ENT examined further, it seems my nose presents another medical mystery. Oh goodie. I have to loop back to my rheumatologist bc Dr. ENT hopes Dr Rheum will run some tests so Dr. ENT can come to a dx without having to biopsy.

Sigh.

I also need to update my Dr Onco and Dr Nephro so they don't freak out over my next blood test, which will be out of whack bc steroids.

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Hey Sigs...

You and your husband know your way around a wood shop.

Do you have any advice on how to get the best deal on wooden spindles/dowels?

I'm trying to price out what I'd need at least for the overlook but figuring I'm going to need to do more than slightly double that for the two staircases in the future.

They seem to come in lengths of 36", 60", 72" and 96".

At least for the overlook, anything other than 72" would be good, with 60" being the best. My poles need to be roughly 29.5" each for the overlook.

If I got a good deal on 36" pieces in bulk it would probably be the best overall though since code for stair banisters is 34" to 38" high. But I guess that 72" would be back in the mix then too if I got a good deal on them since each one would be 2 spindles for the staircases.


The best price I've been able to find so far was the closet rods at the local hardware store where I'd get 3 pieces out of it for about $13. And I'd REALLY have to pick through those because boy... Not good quality wood. Otherwise I'm looking at about $5 each or more. And I decided against ordering anything online because that's just crazy. I'll send them my money and they'll send me a bunch of warped poles that look like Circus Straws.



I really would like to get at least the overlook done now, but I may just have to wait and time the market or maybe luck into a good sale or clearance option like I did with the trim.

I'd say I wish I was pricing these things for the last few years, but I really didn't make the decision to use cylindrical spindles until just a few weeks ago.



Anyhow... Got my overlook base sanded smooth, cleaned up and the trim is all caulked. Should be able to get 2 coats of paint on that today and all that would be left is the spindles.

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