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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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My buddy sold it.

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My buddy sold it.

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Yaaaay!!!!

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

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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?'

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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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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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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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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?'

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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!

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

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

Here's an interesting story about Sabbath

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

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

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At least that's not her!

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

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

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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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