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I'm hoping the weather outlook in the future has changed for you in the next month too, assuming it looked as bad as mine did, Brenda.

Looking at the forecast going out the next month was a pleasant surprise last night. Just a few days ago when I had looked there were a lot more days in the low-to-mid 20's in the near future with a lot more nights in the single digits to low teens than there are right now. They're virtually all gone now, replaced with high temps above freezing and lows at night that aren't too much lower than the highs during the days.

I usually don't wish for rain, but I'm hoping we get a good deal of it over the next few days to wash away all the snow around here. My car is covered in salt too, so I'm going to have it sitting on the curb on Tuesday through Thursday for "God's Carwash".




Maybe I'll pick up those two boards for my overlook today or tomorrow and use that opportunity to pull out my tools in my garage to do the work I need to do out there while my car is out. Not a huge fan of working out there when it's cold, but we're being gifted with two days in the 40's and if I dress warm enough it shouldn't be miserable out there so I won't make stupid mistakes because I'm rushing anything.

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Out for my walk in a bit. Things to do and return to the library. Yeah, I was right about "Renfield" not great but I got a couple of laughs out of it.

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Out for my walk in a bit. Things to do and return to the library. Yeah, I was right about "Renfield" not great but I got a couple of laughs out of it.

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Yeah. Renfield was a huge box office bomb. Worst return on a big budget studio film in 2023, actually.

I saw it with my old man since we're both huge Nic Cage fans. We enjoyed it, but it wasn't very great. I think out of the last 4 Nic Cage flicks we saw, Willy's Wonderland was the best one, and that's probably not a very good thing.

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Out for my walk in a bit. Things to do and return to the library. Yeah, I was right about "Renfield" not great but I got a couple of laughs out of it.

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Yeah. Renfield was a huge box office bomb. Worst return on a big budget studio film in 2023, actually.

I saw it with my old man since we're both huge Nic Cage fans. We enjoyed it, but it wasn't very great. I think out of the last 4 Nic Cage flicks we saw, Willy's Wonderland was the best one, and that's probably not a very good thing.

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I'm hoping the weather outlook in the future has changed for you in the next month too, assuming it looked as bad as mine did, Brenda.

Looking at the forecast going out the next month was a pleasant surprise last night. Just a few days ago when I had looked there were a lot more days in the low-to-mid 20's in the near future with a lot more nights in the single digits to low teens than there are right now. They're virtually all gone now, replaced with high temps above freezing and lows at night that aren't too much lower than the highs during the days.

I usually don't wish for rain, but I'm hoping we get a good deal of it over the next few days to wash away all the snow around here. My car is covered in salt too, so I'm going to have it sitting on the curb on Tuesday through Thursday for "God's Carwash".




Maybe I'll pick up those two boards for my overlook today or tomorrow and use that opportunity to pull out my tools in my garage to do the work I need to do out there while my car is out. Not a huge fan of working out there when it's cold, but we're being gifted with two days in the 40's and if I dress warm enough it shouldn't be miserable out there so I won't make stupid mistakes because I'm rushing anything.

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Massive amount of rain yesterday and last night so most of the snow is gone around me. That is a good thing.

Weather people say it should stay rain for the rest of this week. I can deal with the wet better as I can walk in it.

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I'm hoping the weather outlook in the future has changed for you in the next month too, assuming it looked as bad as mine did, Brenda.

Looking at the forecast going out the next month was a pleasant surprise last night. Just a few days ago when I had looked there were a lot more days in the low-to-mid 20's in the near future with a lot more nights in the single digits to low teens than there are right now. They're virtually all gone now, replaced with high temps above freezing and lows at night that aren't too much lower than the highs during the days.

I usually don't wish for rain, but I'm hoping we get a good deal of it over the next few days to wash away all the snow around here. My car is covered in salt too, so I'm going to have it sitting on the curb on Tuesday through Thursday for "God's Carwash".




Maybe I'll pick up those two boards for my overlook today or tomorrow and use that opportunity to pull out my tools in my garage to do the work I need to do out there while my car is out. Not a huge fan of working out there when it's cold, but we're being gifted with two days in the 40's and if I dress warm enough it shouldn't be miserable out there so I won't make stupid mistakes because I'm rushing anything.

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Massive amount of rain yesterday and last night so most of the snow is gone around me. That is a good thing.

Weather people say it should stay rain for the rest of this week. I can deal with the wet better as I can walk in it.

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It's been raining off and on here for 3 days, and according to my "rain gage", it looks like over 2". I'll bring it in as soon as it stops raining.


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Out to the dentist. Oh well the long walk will do me good. I guess.

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Out to the dentist. Oh well the long walk will do me good. I guess.

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I know walking is good for people but, gosh, how far is it??

Here, they have subsidized transportation for people who can't drive. I wonder if they have anything like that there?

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No caulking done. Got all the mudding done though.

Gonna make a big mess with that when I sand it, so I'll just caulk when I got it all cleaned up, assuming I don't need more mud up there. Got some errands to run tomorrow anyhow, so no biggie if I can't get to the caulk until Thursday. I should at least be able to get caulk on and paint the ceiling by then.



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Back from the dentist and temporary crown removed and permanent one in place. Let's hope it works to protect this tooth.

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No caulking done. Got all the mudding done though.

Gonna make a big mess with that when I sand it, so I'll just caulk when I got it all cleaned up, assuming I don't need more mud up there. Got some errands to run tomorrow anyhow, so no biggie if I can't get to the caulk until Thursday. I should at least be able to get caulk on and paint the ceiling by then.



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So, WHICH ceiling are you working on? I thought they were all done?

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The room in the basement that you can see from the overlook and stairway that is mostly finished except for the baseboard and the trim that goes over the bottom half of the wall on top of the drywall (more baseboard).

The ceiling was basically destroyed. I had used duct tape and staples to seal off the basement when I ripped out 55 contractor bags worth of moldy drywall and insulation, and when I'd pulled it off it ripped a lot of the paint off and left adhesive up there and I'm just now getting to that over 12 years later. I'd also accidentally put a hole in the ceiling when I fell through a hole in one of the closets where somebody appeared to cut a "secret" hole in the floor. It was a careless mistake I'd made while making a video of all the work I'd done upstairs for my mom. I strafed into the closet to show her the motion sensing LEDs that I'd installed in the closet and my foot went right through it.

I also had to do a lot of touchups around the walls where the ceiling paint had flaked too.


It all started because I want to get those last 3 pieces of trim I bought up on the basement side of the overlook, but when I realized how close the top piece was going to be to the ceiling and how hard it would be to paint that wall after the trim is up, I decided to do a ton of other things in that room first.


Other than that room nothing is done in the basement. Pretty much just bare studs everywhere. I only put drywall up in that one room since you could see it from the 1st floor.


I'd show you pictures, but it's all pretty boring right now. Tons of work with little payoff. It does look a ton better now, but until paint starts going up you get very little satisfaction on prep work. I might get paint up on the ceiling by Thursday if I keep at it. Probably won't start painting trim until Friday. But by sometime next week it should be finished.

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Yeah.

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Back from the dentist and temporary crown removed and permanent one in place. Let's hope it works to protect this tooth.

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Oh, yay!
That crown should last decades.


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Back from the dentist and temporary crown removed and permanent one in place. Let's hope it works to protect this tooth.

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Oh, yay!
That crown should last decades.


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That's what I am hoping for as the temporary one held up good for the week it was in.

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Back from the dentist and temporary crown removed and permanent one in place. Let's hope it works to protect this tooth.

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Oh, yay!
That crown should last decades.


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That's what I am hoping for as the temporary one held up good for the week it was in.

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Finally done and cleaned up. Yeah. I'm going to be feeling this tomorrow. The back was not liking that second roll out. Oh well... That's what I get for working until 10 or 11PM two nights in a row when I haven't taken a day off for who knows how long.

I gotta get out for sure tomorrow and stock up on my usual food too. I've kind of been riding the glucose roller coaster the last few days without my normal portions, and that f'ing thing is really getting annoying. I'm considering going back to just injecting with the pens because the Pod app won't work unless you give it access to do alarms at full blast 24/7 and I'm really tired of it. I did just fine without it and it's really becoming too annoying to justify anymore. Maybe I'll look into modding the software first. I'm sure it's hackable.

Pretty busy with other things up through the weekend, but I should be painting trim on Monday and have that room done well before next weekend.



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Out in the dry soon. Looking for some saline to treat my sinuses with and get some groceries. Have to take my umbrella though as I am sure it will be raining by the time I am done.

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Finally done and cleaned up. Yeah. I'm going to be feeling this tomorrow. The back was not liking that second roll out. Oh well... That's what I get for working until 10 or 11PM two nights in a row when I haven't taken a day off for who knows how long.

I gotta get out for sure tomorrow and stock up on my usual food too. I've kind of been riding the glucose roller coaster the last few days without my normal portions, and that f'ing thing is really getting annoying. I'm considering going back to just injecting with the pens because the Pod app won't work unless you give it access to do alarms at full blast 24/7 and I'm really tired of it. I did just fine without it and it's really becoming too annoying to justify anymore. Maybe I'll look into modding the software first. I'm sure it's hackable.

Pretty busy with other things up through the weekend, but I should be painting trim on Monday and have that room done well before next weekend.



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That's a lot of work!

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Out in the dry soon. Looking for some saline to treat my sinuses with and get some groceries. Have to take my umbrella though as I am sure it will be raining by the time I am done.

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If you can believe it, I'm scheduled for my THIRD sinus/ nasal surgery. I hope this one sticks. I hate my nose

But IMHO saline helps with ordinary infections and stuffiness. I hope it works for you.

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Out in the dry soon. Looking for some saline to treat my sinuses with and get some groceries. Have to take my umbrella though as I am sure it will be raining by the time I am done.

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If you can believe it, I'm scheduled for my THIRD sinus/ nasal surgery. I hope this one sticks. I hate my nose

But IMHO saline helps with ordinary infections and stuffiness. I hope it works for you.

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I hope you have good luck with the treatment SIG for your sinuses.

The saline will help with my allergies if I can find anything.

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Out in the dry soon. Looking for some saline to treat my sinuses with and get some groceries. Have to take my umbrella though as I am sure it will be raining by the time I am done.

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If you can believe it, I'm scheduled for my THIRD sinus/ nasal surgery. I hope this one sticks. I hate my nose

But IMHO saline helps with ordinary infections and stuffiness. I hope it works for you.

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I hope you have good luck with the treatment SIG for your sinuses.

The saline will help with my allergies if I can find anything.

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First of all, it's important that you use DISTILLED water or BOILED tap water, because regular tap water and "deionized" or "purified" or "spring" (or whatever descriptor they use besides "distilled) water are actually germy. Psuedomonas and serratia marcescens both thrive in water. Its ok for drinking bc your stomach acid kills them, but you don't want either of them in your nose bc they're hard to get rid of.

I don't know what you have on hand, but I use the Neil Med squeeze bottle and saline packets. Regular table salt has too many additives (iodine, starch, calcoum silicate anti- caking agents) to use in your nose. You can make your own solution using PURE salt (like kosher salt) and baking soda, but those packets are already premeasured for the bottle size, and finely ground to dissolve quickly, and you can make it as you need it.


Just my $0.02.


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Finally done and cleaned up. Yeah. I'm going to be feeling this tomorrow. The back was not liking that second roll out. Oh well... That's what I get for working until 10 or 11PM two nights in a row when I haven't taken a day off for who knows how long.

I gotta get out for sure tomorrow and stock up on my usual food too. I've kind of been riding the glucose roller coaster the last few days without my normal portions, and that f'ing thing is really getting annoying. I'm considering going back to just injecting with the pens because the Pod app won't work unless you give it access to do alarms at full blast 24/7 and I'm really tired of it. I did just fine without it and it's really becoming too annoying to justify anymore. Maybe I'll look into modding the software first. I'm sure it's hackable.

Pretty busy with other things up through the weekend, but I should be painting trim on Monday and have that room done well before next weekend.



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That's a lot of work!

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Yeah. It's too bad I don't do this all the time, but when I'm on a roll things come together pretty quickly.

I actually didn't feel bad today, which surprised me. Cleaned my house up before my old man came by and we watched Contact. I'd never seen it before. Maybe he built it up too much or something but I wasn't super impressed with it. It's always interesting watching a critically acclaimed movie from my teenage years though and fun to point out all the funny styles of the time or how certain events wouldn't even be possible to put in a story anymore because of technology we take for granted today.

Did all my shopping right after he left and got the good deals and my two boards I need for the overlook.

And I finally managed to get the whole crew to come out to my friend's place for a few hours of pool. First time we've all been in the same room for about a year and a half. It was a great time. My buddy's wife sent me home with enough food for two dinners too.

Looks like my aunt doesn't need me to do that thing for her since she got somebody at work to do it for her, so she may not be coming out since it's pretty rainy and chilly this weekend. So I'll be going to help my friend out tomorrow or Sunday and maybe just relax the other day before getting back downstairs. No huge rush on it since I should easily be able to finish everything in that room except for the stairs and the banister before next weekend when it's going to be in the high 40's and I'm going to get that overlook all cut and routered and ready to paint.

After that I should probably get to the electric in the crawl space. I really want to have that set up so the first moment we get a dry spell and I don't have ground water I can dig that 2nd well and get the second sump installed. One step closer to an eternal dry basement.

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BRENDA: I hope you have good luck with the treatment SIG for your sinuses.

The saline will help with my allergies if I can find anything.

SIGNY: First of all, it's important that you use DISTILLED water or BOILED tap water, because regular tap water and "deionized" or "purified" or "spring" (or whatever descriptor they use besides "distilled) water are actually germy. Psuedomonas and serratia marcescens both thrive in water. Its ok for drinking bc your stomach acid kills them, but you don't want either of them in your nose bc they're hard to get rid of.

I don't know what you have on hand, but I use the Neil Med squeeze bottle and saline packets. Regular table salt has too many additives (iodine, starch, calcoum silicate anti- caking agents) to use in your nose. You can make your own solution using PURE salt (like kosher salt) and baking soda, but those packets are already premeasured for the bottle size, and finely ground to dissolve quickly, and you can make it as you need it.
Just my $0.02.


BRENDA: I've always boiled the water when I use the saline treatments. I found something in a local pharmacy that I will pick up on Monday when I am out.

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BRENDA: I hope you have good luck with the treatment SIG for your sinuses.

The saline will help with my allergies if I can find anything.

SIGNY: First of all, it's important that you use DISTILLED water or BOILED tap water, because regular tap water and "deionized" or "purified" or "spring" (or whatever descriptor they use besides "distilled) water are actually germy. Psuedomonas and serratia marcescens both thrive in water. Its ok for drinking bc your stomach acid kills them, but you don't want either of them in your nose bc they're hard to get rid of.

I don't know what you have on hand, but I use the Neil Med squeeze bottle and saline packets. Regular table salt has too many additives (iodine, starch, calcoum silicate anti- caking agents) to use in your nose. You can make your own solution using PURE salt (like kosher salt) and baking soda, but those packets are already premeasured for the bottle size, and finely ground to dissolve quickly, and you can make it as you need it.
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BRENDA: I've always boiled the water when I use the saline treatments. I found something in a local pharmacy that I will pick up on Monday when I am out.

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Good for you! You'd be surprised how many people don't know that.
I hope you find something. Allergy season... it's not just around the corner, but it IS coming!


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