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Thursday, May 23, 2024 4:13 AM

SIGNYM

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That was some good deed you did, SIX! You rescued your friend from a boatload of stress. I hope this turns things around for him and he can look back in six months (or a year, depending on how traumatized he is and how long it takes him to climb down from the ceiling) and see these as the "bad old days". And see you, and his dad, were the separators between him and those days. There's no way he can repay his dad, but I hope he sees that you've been a true friend. I hope he's prepared to do the same for you, if it's in his power.

I can't imagine a 5000 BTU AC cooling your whole house, but you should be able to sleep very comfortably, and retreat to your room to cool off. Let me know how it works out.



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Thursday, May 23, 2024 4:41 AM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Got back today after 4pm. I won the first go round as I had a hand with 8 doubles in it. All 4 flowers of one colour and I don't remember what else. Oh well. It was worth over 8,000 points. We knocked off early today because another lady had a hand with 8 doubles in it as well but hers was worth 11,000 points.

Regular game tomorrow.

I couldn't possibly stick with a game that was so randomly malicious!


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Thursday, May 23, 2024 5:14 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Got back today after 4pm. I won the first go round as I had a hand with 8 doubles in it. All 4 flowers of one colour and I don't remember what else. Oh well. It was worth over 8,000 points. We knocked off early today because another lady had a hand with 8 doubles in it as well but hers was worth 11,000 points.

Regular game tomorrow.

I couldn't possibly stick with a game that was so randomly malicious!


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Like I said that is what keeps us all coming back. We keep hoping for that biiiiig hand that will sweep everyone away.

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Thursday, May 23, 2024 5:17 PM

BRENDA


Got back after 1pm today and just a so so morning at mah jong. Both the ladies I was playing with just ran me over. I kept going out but one lady had 8 doubles in her hand which was all 4 flowers of one colour and winds and dragons. Then the other lady had 6 doubles which was all 4 flowers of one colour and what she was collecting. My best hand had 5 doubles in it. Oh well. It happens.

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Thursday, May 23, 2024 9:00 PM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Got back today after 4pm. I won the first go round as I had a hand with 8 doubles in it. All 4 flowers of one colour and I don't remember what else. Oh well. It was worth over 8,000 points. We knocked off early today because another lady had a hand with 8 doubles in it as well but hers was worth 11,000 points.

Regular game tomorrow.

I couldn't possibly stick with a game that was so randomly malicious!


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Like I said that is what keeps us all coming back. We keep hoping for that biiiiig hand that will sweep everyone away.

Ohh, NOW I get the attraction!


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Thursday, May 23, 2024 11:20 PM

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That was some good deed you did, SIX! You rescued your friend from a boatload of stress. I hope this turns things around for him and he can look back in six months (or a year, depending on how traumatized he is and how long it takes him to climb down from the ceiling) and see these as the "bad old days". And see you, and his dad, were the separators between him and those days. There's no way he can repay his dad, but I hope he sees that you've been a true friend. I hope he's prepared to do the same for you, if it's in his power.



Well... I'd like to think we're getting there. There's some other issues going on too at the same time, but I have a good feeling that a lot of that exists only because for years now he's worked 2 full-time jobs while one of them wasn't paying him anything. I usually am pretty free with information, even when it comes to my friends and my family, but I'm going to keep this one between just the two of us.

I'm just really disappointed in myself is all. I consider myself an empath, and only now do I realize that there were a lot of signs that things weren't really okay which I should have picked up on, or more accurately, I should have talked myself into believing that they really were warning signs and not just in my mind.

Like his Dad, he was always one of the most positive people I knew, as well as one of the most positive influences in my life and I've always considered it a real gift that we just happened to bump into each other that day 25 years ago at community college. I don't think we ever spoke a single sentence to each other in high school, but when you're at a new bigger place than the last school you went to, I think just seeing something that reminded you of the high school days like that just got us to say hi to each other and somehow that ended up with us exchanging numbers and I took some of my friends from my old neighborhood to a party at his folks place later that week and the rest is history. The real cool thing was that even when I dropped out and cut off all communication in my drunk prison, they've all remained good friends to this day... and they never would have even met each other had we not bumped into each other on campus. He is actually the reason that I started talking to two of my old grade school buddies again and one of them is the guy I play pool with all the time.



He's always played emotions close to the vest. He's also very trusted with secrets. I can only imagine how many of them he's holding for other people and the amount of stress that would cause you to be holding on to so many of them for so many people.

So even though I knew the drinking has been an issue for years now, he's always just managed to do everything a responsible adult does otherwise. Never got fired. Never late to work. Paid his child support on time every time and is now voluntarily putting his son through college because it is what his own Dad sacrificed for him. Never missed paying any bills. Keeping his marriage together at least 10 years longer than my parents did on their first marriages. Always being there for anybody in an emergency with no questions asked.

But man... Losing his Dad. And not just any Dad. Like the best Dad anybody ever had, Dad.

I don't get the feeling that anybody in his life understands what he's going through right now. His Dad was his best friend, and I'm sure if you asked his Dad he'd say the same thing.

I'm hoping that getting this albatross finally off of his neck is the thing he needed to center himself again. It's really, really got to help with that at least. From where I'm sitting I can't even imagine how he'd have any free time with all the other stuff he does even when that house is gone, but he really will have about 40 to 50 hours more to himself per week that he didn't have before most weeks. I hope he spends half of that on sleep.

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I can't imagine a 5000 BTU AC cooling your whole house, but you should be able to sleep very comfortably, and retreat to your room to cool off. Let me know how it works out.




Yeah. I can't imagine that it is going to work for the whole house either.

When I was a kid though, even though we lived in a pretty small house compared to mine, we had that little 5k or 6k BTU, and I don't ever remember sweating in bed in that house like I do in other places we stayed after the divorce. It was only a 2 bedroom ranch with a large kitchen and a large living room. (what I would give to be living in a house like that right now).

You'd be surprised at the temperatures I'm comfortable with, both hot and cold.

Almost everybody told me that the house was too cold when I was using that 12,000 BTU unit, so even though I don't think a brand name 5,000 BTU is going to do what I need it to do, I'm looking forward to the experiment.

Right now we're in between days in the high 80's and I haven't been sweating in my house at all. I just remember to open up all the windows at night and make sure to close them again early enough before it all comes right back in. I'm sure that dehumidifier working in the basement is helping out too. The only time I need a fan at all is when I'm laying down to sleep since the body heat is enough to put me over the edge into sweating territory otherwise.

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Thursday, May 23, 2024 11:31 PM

BRENDA


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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Got back today after 4pm. I won the first go round as I had a hand with 8 doubles in it. All 4 flowers of one colour and I don't remember what else. Oh well. It was worth over 8,000 points. We knocked off early today because another lady had a hand with 8 doubles in it as well but hers was worth 11,000 points.

Regular game tomorrow.

I couldn't possibly stick with a game that was so randomly malicious!


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Like I said that is what keeps us all coming back. We keep hoping for that biiiiig hand that will sweep everyone away.

Ohh, NOW I get the attraction!


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Yup, and I did it once in the main group on a Thursday morning. I got 10 doubles in my hand. Think it was all 4 flowers and winds and dragons. The good ones too. Had to have help counting that hand and the head lady was helping me and she said, "Forget it everyone. She's going to win." And I did too that morning. I forget my score but it was a biggie.

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Friday, May 24, 2024 1:18 PM

BRENDA


Out in the rain and yes, you read that right. Rain in my corner and most corners of BC over the weekend.

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Friday, May 24, 2024 1:28 PM

SIGNYM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Out in the rain and yes, you read that right. Rain in my corner and most corners of BC over the weekend.



I know rain makes life difficult for you. So I hope the rain makes it to the interior and over the Rockies to the plains provinces real soon.

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Friday, May 24, 2024 5:12 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Boy... I fell behind on paperwork. That's almost done, but it takes a lot of time when you're that far behind.

Probably going to clean house a little after I finish it and do some laundry.

Been raining on and off all day and it's going to be capped with some thunderstorms tonight. We actually needed the rain, so as long as the power stays on everything should be alright.

My buddy was talking about going to a local fest tonight with his family, and I was considering meeting up with them, but I don't imagine they're going to be doing that with the chances of thunderstorms and rain in the 70's up through 11PM, so that's a bummer. Maybe I'll just go over to their house tonight if they stay in.

Still haven't heard from my other bud about the house sale yet. He's either sold it or he hasn't sold it by now. I don't want to bother him yet since he was working today to find out, especially on the off chance there was a problem. Hope to hear from him soon.



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Friday, May 24, 2024 5:19 PM

BRENDA


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Originally posted by Brenda:
Out in the rain and yes, you read that right. Rain in my corner and most corners of BC over the weekend.



I know rain makes life difficult for you. So I hope the rain makes it to the interior and over the Rockies to the plains provinces real soon.

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The rain is a bummer but we soo need it here in BC and across the Prairies. The Sunshine coast is worried about bringing in water restrictions again. I hope these rain clouds are strong enough to get over the Rockies and bring some much needed rain to the Prairies.

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Friday, May 24, 2024 5:22 PM

BRENDA


Back and in on a blah day because of the rain. However I managed to clean off a portion of the kitchen table for the mah jong game I was given. One of the ladies in the group had two sets and didn't want the second one. Since I was playing with her, I said I've been looking for a proper set for a while. She brought it to me yesterday. The tiles are small so I don't need a lot of room to play with it. Which suits me just fine.

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Friday, May 24, 2024 8:31 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


My buddy sold it.

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Friday, May 24, 2024 10:30 PM

SIGNYM

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My buddy sold it.

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Yaaaay!!!!

Woo hoo!



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Saturday, May 25, 2024 12:26 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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My buddy sold it.

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Yaaaay!!!!

Woo hoo!



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Yup.

And I asked him what he was doing tonight to celebrate and he said he was going to sleep.

Exactly what I wanted to hear.



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Saturday, May 25, 2024 5:59 AM

SIGNYM

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I think my Jewish boss at work would have called you a mensch. A good guy.

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Saturday, May 25, 2024 10:34 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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I think my Jewish boss at work would have called you a mensch. A good guy.



Thanks, Sigs. I'd like to think that I'm working my way to making sure my good deeds outnumber the bad ones in both quality and quantity. Honestly, I'm probably not there yet, but no reason to ever stop trying to reach that goal and surpass it once you've got your head on straight.



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Saturday, May 25, 2024 10:42 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I saw a pretty darn good video yesterday in my YouTube feed I wanted to share here regarding motivation by a husband/wife team that I've enjoyed for several years (she's not in this video though).




I think a big thing that stopped me dead in my tracks was the idea of destroying some of the work I'd just done to get that generator plug installed, and maybe the worries of what was going on behind the scenes and the potential for unexpected problems.

I think I'm going to skip working on that for now and move on to something else instead. We've got some heavy rain coming, but I can at least get started working on removing grass behind my house and getting ready to trench it out so I can clean off the foundation with a wire wheel brush and tar it up before I do everything else I need to grade it away from the house and put my edger blocks in and get river rock in there.

Eventually, this will be done around my garage and along the fences as well, but none of that will get done until I start working on it.

So... #5: Fuck it. Let's just get started.

"Perfect is the enemy of the good". "Done is better than Perfect".



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Saturday, May 25, 2024 12:27 PM

SIGNYM

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For me, the stumbling block is

"You'll never feel ready"

If I'm trying to do a big project and it's daunting, and/or it's something I've never done before. My inability to visualize is a huge stumbling block. Especially in projects that require figuring out what something is supposed to look like, or how to manipulate things to get the desired result. I have the same problem in buildings with many offices and corridors: I get shown to a room but can't find my way out. I joke with the nurses that if I were a rat in a maze, scientists would be looking at me and asking "What is WRONG with that one?'

And I do worry about "What could go wrong?" especially if it's something I've never done before.


I never aim for perfection. That requires more time than I can commit. I would LOVE to be in a situation where I can devote myself to something... anything... for as long as I want. But I live by my phone alarms, which go off regularly during the day, bc I have to stop one thing and start something else. Also, the calendar.

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Saturday, May 25, 2024 1:17 PM

BRENDA


Out to get my laundry done and then out for a walk. Couple of small things to do.

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Saturday, May 25, 2024 6:09 PM

BRENDA


Back and all done for today. I missed the rain but it got a parade that was happening earlier in the morning.

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Sunday, May 26, 2024 2:54 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
For me, the stumbling block is

"You'll never feel ready"

If I'm trying to do a big project and it's daunting, and/or it's something I've never done before. My inability to visualize is a huge stumbling block. Especially in projects that require figuring out what something is supposed to look like, or how to manipulate things to get the desired result. I have the same problem in buildings with many offices and corridors: I get shown to a room but can't find my way out. I joke with the nurses that if I were a rat in a maze, scientists would be looking at me and asking "What is WRONG with that one?'





Yeah. I get lost like that all the time. I don't get it. My brother has a compass installed in his head and night or day he knows exactly where he's going and how to get there. I'm good if the sun is out during the day, but otherwise I'd be lost without GPS. Or at least I'd have to go back to writing down directions to anywhere I was going that I hadn't been to 20 times already.

I'm really good at visualizing what I want to do. Probably too good at it. I can get lost just imagining what things will look like when they're done for countless hours at a time, even though it might take me years to finally get around to doing it. "I'll never feel ready" isn't a problem I usually have. Although I could have very easily used that excuse today when I did all the work I did even though I'm not going to be able to work on it tomorrow with thunderstorms all day. My biggest problems probably are my perfectionism and fear of the unknown. Before my buddy came by and helped me get that porch put back together I spent half a year or more back there smoking cigarettes and looking at that gaping hole in the floor without having a clue about what I was going to do about it. I honestly had pretty much settled on just knocking it down, although I was really worried about the city's response to that... so nothing ever got done with it.

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And I do worry about "What could go wrong?" especially if it's something I've never done before.


Yeah. I do that too. He's right though... Most of the scenarios you play in your head are never going to play out and usually if something goes wrong it's not really all that bad.

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I never aim for perfection. That requires more time than I can commit. I would LOVE to be in a situation where I can devote myself to something... anything... for as long as I want. But I live by my phone alarms, which go off regularly during the day, bc I have to stop one thing and start something else. Also, the calendar.


The only problem with having all the time in the world is that you can easily end up squandering a lot of it on nothing at all.

Ask me how I know.





Oh yeah... I removed all the grass 2 feet from the back of the house and around a small portion of fence today. Took me about 6 hours to do it with the tools I had, but that part's done. Now I just need to trench out against the foundation, clean up the foundation with my wire brushes and wash it off, put a few coats of tar up on it, put the wire mesh down there perpendicular to the foundation every foot to keep the moles away and then grade everything away from the house. After that I put the edger stones in and finally get my river rock down.

Eventually I'm going to do that all around the garage and both of the neighbor's fences as well as both sides of the driveway. I think with the driveway I'm also going to install drain tile to pull water down to the curb. I probably won't get to that part this year, but hopefully I can get most everything else done. It will probably go a lot quicker once I'm done with the house/garage and I'm doing the fences since there are a lot less steps involved with that.

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Sunday, May 26, 2024 1:58 PM

BRENDA


Just a Sunday with nothing much going on around me. I'll get a couple of indoor chores done then take a look at book publishers for Ontario. Think I have covered all of BC, but will do a triple check.

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Sunday, May 26, 2024 2:44 PM

SIGNYM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack
Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
For me, the stumbling block is

"You'll never feel ready"

If I'm trying to do a big project and it's daunting, and/or it's something I've never done before. My inability to visualize is a huge stumbling block. Especially in projects that require figuring out what something is supposed to look like, or how to manipulate things to get the desired result. I have the same problem in buildings with many offices and corridors: I get shown to a room but can't find my way out. I joke with the nurses that if I were a rat in a maze, scientists would be looking at me and asking "What is WRONG with that one?'





Yeah. I get lost like that all the time. I don't get it. My brother has a compass installed in his head and night or day he knows exactly where he's going and how to get there. I'm good if the sun is out during the day, but otherwise I'd be lost without GPS. Or at least I'd have to go back to writing down directions to anywhere I was going that I hadn't been to 20 times already.

I'm really good at visualizing what I want to do. Probably too good at it. I can get lost just imagining what things will look like when they're done for countless hours at a time, even though it might take me years to finally get around to doing it. "I'll never feel ready" isn't a problem I usually have. Although I could have very easily used that excuse today when I did all the work I did even though I'm not going to be able to work on it tomorrow with thunderstorms all day. My biggest problems probably are my perfectionism and fear of the unknown. Before my buddy came by and helped me get that porch put back together I spent half a year or more back there smoking cigarettes and looking at that gaping hole in the floor without having a clue about what I was going to do about it. I honestly had pretty much settled on just knocking it down, although I was really worried about the city's response to that... so nothing ever got done with it.

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And I do worry about "What could go wrong?" especially if it's something I've never done before.


Yeah. I do that too. He's right though... Most of the scenarios you play in your head are never going to play out and usually if something goes wrong it's not really all that bad.

Quote:

I never aim for perfection. That requires more time than I can commit. I would LOVE to be in a situation where I can devote myself to something... anything... for as long as I want. But I live by my phone alarms, which go off regularly during the day, bc I have to stop one thing and start something else. Also, the calendar.


The only problem with having all the time in the world is that you can easily end up squandering a lot of it on nothing at all.

Ask me how I know.

Oh yeah... I removed all the grass 2 feet from the back of the house and around a small portion of fence today. Took me about 6 hours to do it with the tools I had, but that part's done. Now I just need to trench out against the foundation, clean up the foundation with my wire brushes and wash it off, put a few coats of tar up on it, put the wire mesh down there perpendicular to the foundation every foot to keep the moles away and then grade everything away from the house. After that I put the edger stones in and finally get my river rock down.

Eventually I'm going to do that all around the garage and both of the neighbor's fences as well as both sides of the driveway. I think with the driveway I'm also going to install drain tile to pull water down to the curb. I probably won't get to that part this year, but hopefully I can get most everything else done. It will probably go a lot quicker once I'm done with the house/garage and I'm doing the fences since there are a lot less steps involved with that.

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Lot of work there Six! I can't imagine doing 6 hours of hard labor!
Altho, thanks to hubby instigating the effort and dear daughter and hubby doing most of the work (I was mostly supervising from behind an N95 ) , we cleaned up a dirt- and - weed pile that the last crew left on the driveway. Had to separate out the dirt bc it makes the greenwaste bins to heavy for the mechanized pickup arms on the truck! (I did tell the gardener that I wasn't too happy with the mess they left behind, and that if I were to hire them again I would be supervising them closely. )

I had planned on doing something else yesterday but now that the mess is gone I feel relieved when I look over in that direction. It was so worth doing!

I also got the veggie garden papered over and got got experience in how to plant thru paper, since I finally planted the tomatoes and zucchini.

On with the show!

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Sunday, May 26, 2024 3:03 PM

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Nice. I'm glad you've got help with all of that too.

Just some R&R today with the thunderstorms, which is fine by me. If I tweak my back, 99% of the time it's my lower back on either side, but this time it's my mid-to-upper back under my right shoulder. I must have pinched something there from the weird angle I had to drive that spade to pull up the grass without digging straight down into the ground. It didn't even bother me until after midnight when I was coming back home from my friend's house. It felt like a pain shooting to the front of my chest in that position in my car and every time I breathed it hurt. I'm glad it was on the right side or I would have wondered if I was having a heart attack.




I may or may not go to the hardware store to buy more stuff today.

Today is the last day I can get those edger stones on sale, which would be the prime motivator for that. Unfortunately, I can't just order them online because they charge a premium for that, so I'd have to go to the store out in the rain if I want to do it.

I still haven't picked up any of the last 100 of them I bought a few weeks ago since I'm already sitting on 165 of them from last year that I haven't even started on. 265 might sound like a lot, but it's nowhere near how many I'm going to eventually need to get this done. I don't need to buy all of them now, but depending on how far I get into this work this summer I'm going to be pissed at myself for not buying more while it was on sale if I need them. I have a feeling once the back of the house and the 2 sides of the garage are done and I move on to the fences they're going to start going really quick.


I also need to figure out what kind of concrete I'm going to need. The existing small slab under the water spigot that is behind the house in the middle of the work I did yesterday is graded into the house instead of away from it. I know that putting concrete on top of concrete doesn't work out for a lot of people because they don't prep right and/or they don't use the correct product. But I'm going to need to do something about that or all that water is still going to end up right against my foundation no matter how much work I do on the rest of the back.

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Monday, May 27, 2024 1:35 PM

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Out for my walk and taking my umbrella with me as I may need it. Couple of things to do.

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Monday, May 27, 2024 5:05 PM

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Back and done for today. No rain right now as the sun is out.

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Monday, May 27, 2024 9:57 PM

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I'm glad I didn't buy a bunch of edger stones yesterday just because they were on sale. I measured everything out today and I'm surprised that I'm only around 70 to 80 shy of what I need if I did everything with them, including down both sides of the driveway and the fences.

And I have a whole lot of the flat concrete pavers in a couple of stacks in the sand pit that are going to be in my way at some point when I have the garage and house edged out, so I decided to start digging out around my neighbor's wooden fence and put those pavers down all along that for now. Turns out that's a monster job because it's clay back there. Not only is it difficult to dig, but it's quite a chore getting as much of it off the roots as possible too. I didn't get started digging until around 3:30 and I only got about 15 feet done out of the 53 feet I need to do over there.

Oh well... I knew all of this would be one of the biggest jobs I've done so far.

Just a shame that we're going to be dealing with rain all day again tomorrow and I can't get back to it. I wanted to keep working tonight, but I lost daylight.

Eventually I think I'll take those pavers back out and edge that fence and put down river rock like I'm doing everywhere else. These are more or less just placeholders. That job should be easy whenever I get to it since the difficult work is being done now.

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Monday, May 27, 2024 11:32 PM

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I am off to work tomorrow. Boss sent me an email which I didn't see until Sunday, so I replied to it but didn't recieve an answer. I called her this morning and she said that she saw my answer but has no decided, "That she doesn't deal with business on Sunday." I said sorry and that I didn't know about that. She was very curt about it and I know I wasn't being rude, I just wanted to know what was happening. She asked me my days again and I told her and that is why I am going over there Tuesday.

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Tuesday, May 28, 2024 12:59 AM

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She's in a cranky mood again, huh Brenda?

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Tuesday, May 28, 2024 7:38 AM

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Looks like the rain was pushed back to around 2PM. I'm up early. I should be able to get some stuff done before it comes down. I'd like to get at least half of that fence done if not 2/3rds of it today. Fingers crossed.

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Tuesday, May 28, 2024 8:31 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
I am off to work tomorrow. Boss sent me an email which I didn't see until Sunday, so I replied to it but didn't recieve an answer. I called her this morning and she said that she saw my answer but has no decided, "That she doesn't deal with business on Sunday." I said sorry and that I didn't know about that. She was very curt about it and I know I wasn't being rude, I just wanted to know what was happening. She asked me my days again and I told her and that is why I am going over there Tuesday.



I guess I personally would not consider answering an email as "doing business".

Here's an interesting story about Sabbath

Quote:

The operation of electrical devices on the Jewish Sabbath is categorically prohibited by Orthodox Jewish authorities. Orthodox and other traditionally observant Jews therefore do not use lights or electrical appliances on the Sabbath; however there is no prohibition on using a light that was turned on before the Sabbath began. While this prohibition is universally practiced in the Orthodox community, there is no agreement on its source.

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/electricity-on-shabbat/

And here's a guy who takes that to extremes.
Quote:

A fire alarm alerted the Fire Department who came and extinguished the fire and prevented it from spreading. When asked why he didn’t call 911, the man explained that it was the Shabbat and he couldn’t use the phone!

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/orthodox-jew-wont-call-fire-department
-on-shabbos
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At least that's not her!

But she doesn't have to be rude about it.



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Tuesday, May 28, 2024 8:33 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Looks like the rain was pushed back to around 2PM. I'm up early. I should be able to get some stuff done before it comes down. I'd like to get at least half of that fence done if not 2/3rds of it today. Fingers crossed.

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Yeah, you are up early! Me? Im going back to bed!

You gave a lot of work ahead. Bon chance!

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Tuesday, May 28, 2024 6:09 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Looks like the rain was pushed back to around 2PM. I'm up early. I should be able to get some stuff done before it comes down. I'd like to get at least half of that fence done if not 2/3rds of it today. Fingers crossed.

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Yeah, you are up early! Me? Im going back to bed!

You gave a lot of work ahead. Bon chance!

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I got a few extra hours before the thunder started rolling in too, but this is really slow going work. I only managed to dig out about 3/5ths of the fence perimeter and put stones down for half of it after 8 hours.

Oy...

There's at least another day and a half just to get that done, maybe two days.

Digging clay is fun, but trying to pull playdoh out of grass and weed roots is SUPER FUN!!!!



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Tuesday, May 28, 2024 9:22 PM

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Well... I know why my basement leaked this year.

Tomorrow I've got to get out the monster ladder and get up and clean out that gutter on the back of my house. I've gone a full year without anything at all getting up in there before, so let's just say I've been a little lazy here. I didn't clear it out after the leaves fell in the fall last year, and I haven't gone up there after the helicopters fell this year.

Got a full on view of what was going on today with the massive downpour we had a few hours ago though. All of the water in that gutter was coming out the top and I'll bet very little of it was going down the downspout. The wind must have been blowing the wrong way this year and I got everybody else's crap in that gutter. It certainly wasn't from my tree.

That explains what I was seeing this morning after we had a little rain last night. Everything on the right side of the small concrete slab under the spigot was bone dry, but everything to the left of it (where the downspout is) was wet. I took that to mean that I was going to really have to build that all up high to grade away from the foundation, which I still intend to do, but no... The water was falling out of the gutter straight into the problem area where I get my leaks.

I'm going to try to see if I can cut out that stupid slab too. The idiots graded it down into my house instead of away from it. I was going to try to build it up, but half the guys out there tell you it's possible with the right prep and materials and half the guys tell you that it will never work and won't survive icing over in the winter.

Hopefully it's only 2 or 3" and I can cut it out in strips with a masonry blade. I've got to be really careful because the drain pipe runs right under it and the cleanout for that drain pops up through that slab. I may leave the end of it around the cleanout and just cover over that with grass and dirt, which should be alright as long as I can build everything else up and run my edgers and river rock straight across instead of stopping on both sides of that janky slab.


Oh... and I have to remember to tell my neighbors it's time to clean out theirs. They had a steady stream just coming out at a hard trickle at one of the busted 45 degree pieces, and with the speed it was coming out it was obvious none of those downspouts are doing their job right now.

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Tuesday, May 28, 2024 11:28 PM

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She's in a cranky mood again, huh Brenda?

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I have no idea what bug crawled up her butt Monday morning but she was alright today when I was there.

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Tuesday, May 28, 2024 11:30 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
I am off to work tomorrow. Boss sent me an email which I didn't see until Sunday, so I replied to it but didn't recieve an answer. I called her this morning and she said that she saw my answer but has no decided, "That she doesn't deal with business on Sunday." I said sorry and that I didn't know about that. She was very curt about it and I know I wasn't being rude, I just wanted to know what was happening. She asked me my days again and I told her and that is why I am going over there Tuesday.



I guess I personally would not consider answering an email as "doing business".

Here's an interesting story about Sabbath

Quote:

The operation of electrical devices on the Jewish Sabbath is categorically prohibited by Orthodox Jewish authorities. Orthodox and other traditionally observant Jews therefore do not use lights or electrical appliances on the Sabbath; however there is no prohibition on using a light that was turned on before the Sabbath began. While this prohibition is universally practiced in the Orthodox community, there is no agreement on its source.

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/electricity-on-shabbat/

And here's a guy who takes that to extremes.
Quote:

A fire alarm alerted the Fire Department who came and extinguished the fire and prevented it from spreading. When asked why he didn’t call 911, the man explained that it was the Shabbat and he couldn’t use the phone!

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/orthodox-jew-wont-call-fire-department
-on-shabbos
/
At least that's not her!

But she doesn't have to be rude about it.



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Nope, not her and as I've said they are Christian. But yeah there was no need for the snark when I was just checking to see what was what.

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Tuesday, May 28, 2024 11:33 PM

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Got back around 5pm today. Had supper, watched the news and another show.

Save me from people who don't know any science. Over lunch today I had to explain to someone else my boss had there what the phrase, "Goldilock zone" meant.

Also call this early evening and I have a pick up game of mah jong tomorrow afternoon.

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Tuesday, May 28, 2024 11:35 PM

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Oh, before I left I told her I didn't know about her no business on Sunday. She said it wasn't a policy but just that she didn't feel like answering and she knew that I would call to check what was happening.

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Wednesday, May 29, 2024 10:12 AM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
She's in a cranky mood again, huh Brenda?

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I have no idea what bug crawled up her butt Monday morning but she was alright today when I was there.



I bet she felt kind of guilty about it, but from what you've told us about her I doubt she'd be the type to tell you sorry.

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Wednesday, May 29, 2024 11:16 AM

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Woke up and it was damn chilly in my house. I was going to wait a while before working outside and let it warm up, but it appears we're in the middle of a cold snap around these parts. The 61 degrees that it is currently is only 2 degrees below the high for today. It's actually going to drop down to 47 degrees the next two nights.



No rain until Saturday though, so I'm definitely going to be out there taking advantage of that. As much of a pain as all this sod removal is, it's better to be doing that work in the 60's and 70's than waiting until things are dry and it's in the 80's and 90's for sure... Even though I can't really even think about doing the foundation trenching and tarring until I know I've got about a week without rain and the hot sun beating down to dry that tar.

Although it makes a bit of a mess on my siding when it rains, it doesn't appear that removing the grass around the foundation temporarily is leading to any water penetration in my house. Even with that blocked up gutter last night and torrential rain, I didn't get any water in my basement. So I think I'm going to work this week into next just trenching out everything that I know I'm going to get to this year before moving on to the next step. That leaves me with another 25 or so feet to go on the wooden fence, about 80 feet on my neighbor's chain link fence, and about 55 feet on the back and one side of the garage to go. I'll probably also do one side of the driveway this year as well, since that wouldn't have anything to do with the sump well/drainage system I want to put in place on the sand-pit side, and I think I can do quite a bit of good with the drainage on the other side without any need for a mechanical solution over there. They didn't do a great job with the initial driveway pour though, so I'm probably going to be out there with my angle grinder and a masonry blade to cut it down to a nice edge at some point after the grass is dug out along side it.

First thing is first... Pull my car out of the garage so I can get the monster ladder out and clear out that back gutter. I'll probably leave the car out so I can take breaks from the digging work and organize the clutter in my garage. Between shifting to the new car and grabbing stuff for my house projects from my friend's place, it's really a mess in there right now and could use a re-org. I need to bury stuff I know I'm not going to get to for a while so it's not in the way of things I need regularly.

I wish I knew somebody who lived close that scrapped metal. The two people I know are in Illinois and it would be dumb for them to drive here for the stuff I've got. Those two wrought iron pieces for the overlook and the stairs need to go. I'll just put them out for the light haulers. I probably won't do that until next week though since it's a holiday week and trash day was moved. I don't want them to end up in the dump.

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Wednesday, May 29, 2024 1:26 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
She's in a cranky mood again, huh Brenda?

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I have no idea what bug crawled up her butt Monday morning but she was alright today when I was there.



I bet she felt kind of guilty about it, but from what you've told us about her I doubt she'd be the type to tell you sorry.

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No, and as I said back up aways, she just didn't feel like answering me and knew I would call to find out what was happening.

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Wednesday, May 29, 2024 1:27 PM

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Out to get some stuff done before my pick up mah jong game.

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Wednesday, May 29, 2024 11:15 PM

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Got back after 5 today and no luck this afternoon. Oh well. Regular game tomorrow. Maybe better luck.

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Wednesday, May 29, 2024 11:28 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Woke up and it was damn chilly in my house. I was going to wait a while before working outside and let it warm up, but it appears we're in the middle of a cold snap around these parts. The 61 degrees that it is currently is only 2 degrees below the high for today. It's actually going to drop down to 47 degrees the next two nights.



No rain until Saturday though, so I'm definitely going to be out there taking advantage of that. As much of a pain as all this sod removal is, it's better to be doing that work in the 60's and 70's than waiting until things are dry and it's in the 80's and 90's for sure... Even though I can't really even think about doing the foundation trenching and tarring until I know I've got about a week without rain and the hot sun beating down to dry that tar.

Although it makes a bit of a mess on my siding when it rains, it doesn't appear that removing the grass around the foundation temporarily is leading to any water penetration in my house. Even with that blocked up gutter last night and torrential rain, I didn't get any water in my basement. So I think I'm going to work this week into next just trenching out everything that I know I'm going to get to this year before moving on to the next step. That leaves me with another 25 or so feet to go on the wooden fence, about 80 feet on my neighbor's chain link fence, and about 55 feet on the back and one side of the garage to go. I'll probably also do one side of the driveway this year as well, since that wouldn't have anything to do with the sump well/drainage system I want to put in place on the sand-pit side, and I think I can do quite a bit of good with the drainage on the other side without any need for a mechanical solution over there. They didn't do a great job with the initial driveway pour though, so I'm probably going to be out there with my angle grinder and a masonry blade to cut it down to a nice edge at some point after the grass is dug out along side it.

First thing is first... Pull my car out of the garage so I can get the monster ladder out and clear out that back gutter. I'll probably leave the car out so I can take breaks from the digging work and organize the clutter in my garage. Between shifting to the new car and grabbing stuff for my house projects from my friend's place, it's really a mess in there right now and could use a re-org. I need to bury stuff I know I'm not going to get to for a while so it's not in the way of things I need regularly.

I wish I knew somebody who lived close that scrapped metal. The two people I know are in Illinois and it would be dumb for them to drive here for the stuff I've got. Those two wrought iron pieces for the overlook and the stairs need to go. I'll just put them out for the light haulers. I probably won't do that until next week though since it's a holiday week and trash day was moved. I don't want them to end up in the dump.

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Wednesday, May 29, 2024 11:34 PM

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Well,I'm supposed to go in for an infusion this Friday, but I suddenly developed the strangest bumps and rashes last Friday. I've been trying to get an opinion on whether this is an infection bc if I have an active infection I can't get treatment. Or maybe this is some manifestation of my condition. Getting an opinion wasn't helped by Monday being a holiday.

So I have an appointment tomorrow with Dr Derm, which is leaving things to the last minute, and if Dr Derm can't decide I guess my infusion gets called off.

I think I'm gonna send pix to Dr Rheum. Maybe she can weigh in on wherever it looks like GPA or not. Problem is, consult two doctors and get three different opinions.

****

Speaking of which. I was given a number to call that gets me right in touch with a nurse to help coordinate my care and answer urgent questions, since I'm being seen by so many doctors. And probably bc I have GPA.

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Wednesday, May 29, 2024 11:36 PM

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Got back after 5 today and no luck this afternoon. Oh well. Regular game tomorrow. Maybe better luck.


As before: May the tiles be with you!


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Thursday, May 30, 2024 12:46 AM

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Seems like you're on a roll, SIX!




Yeah... I think I found my groove again.

Kicked my own ass today. I didn't put any pavers down but I decided to get the real dirty work finished on that one fence and managed to pull up all the grass all the way to the end and tamp it all down. All I've got to do tomorrow is put down sand to level them out and fill in the spaces between them with sand. I'm not buying that expensive weed free stuff for these since I'm considering them temporary, and I'm just using sand from the Bermuda Triangle for that job.

I figure since I'm clean now I'm going to run my errands first in the morning, then I'll do all that before I mow the lawn.

Fortunately, about halfway through the clay turned into mud. Unfortunately, once it turned into mud I was hitting a ton of rocks and stones, and even pulled out two massive chunks of concrete from the old fence too. My body is wrecked right now. I told my old man I'm going to take the day off and mow the lawn. We got a good laugh out of that since that's a two hour job with my push mower.



That fence was only about 54 feet long. My other neighbors fence is next and that's over 80 feet.



Good luck with your medical stuff. Hope it's not an infection.

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Thursday, May 30, 2024 5:01 PM

BRENDA


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Got back after 5 today and no luck this afternoon. Oh well. Regular game tomorrow. Maybe better luck.


As before: May the tiles be with you!


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The only good thing about today was I managed to break 1,000points with a hand that had 5 doubles in it. Also managed winds & dragons but nothing good in that hand. So no money for me today.

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Thursday, May 30, 2024 5:02 PM

BRENDA


Terrible morning at mah jong. I think one of the ladies I was playing with got the booby prize as she finished with only 600 points.

No rain today but suppose to get some more on the weekend.

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