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Out soon to meet my friend.

And waaaah! Didn't get the leg show from Pedro. Not that I mind them concentrating on his face. Still it would have been nice. The main guy had nice legs too and saw more of his.
Pedro's character is dead where I left off last night and they killed Derek Jacobi's character too. Though he had less to do this time. But still.

Sorry for the spoilers. So if you haven't seen it or don't ignore this post.

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Out soon to meet my friend.

And waaaah! Didn't get the leg show from Pedro. Not that I mind them concentrating on his face. Still it would have been nice. The main guy had nice legs too and saw more of his.
Pedro's character is dead where I left off last night and they killed Derek Jacobi's character too. Though he had less to do this time. But still.

Sorry for the spoilers. So if you haven't seen it or don't ignore this post.

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Hehe... No worries about spoilers for me. I can't imagine any scenario where I watch Gladiator II and pay any attention to it. I honestly can't believe they didn't show off Pedro's legs in the movie.

I gave you a happy early birthday, but now I'll give you a happy late birthday.


Finally going back outside to work today. We still had some rain early in the morning yesterday, so I didn't go out in the slop. It's going to be 87 degrees today, with 3 more in the 80's and that's it for the toasty weather this year around here. Gotta make the most of the time I have left.

That damn mole didn't take a break after I quit on last Saturday. For a full week he's been ripping up that sandpit that I had leveled out last week. He still doesn't appear to have gotten into stuff that I've finished, although I'm a little worried about behind the garage. It's hard to really tell though because I've got about 5,000lbs of rock stacked up on top of it so I won't know until I start filling in the main sand pit later next week after I get all the other stuff done.

Going to trench out the foundation on the back and side of the house first so I can scrub and rinse it before putting on the tar. After that, I'm going to work on the fencing to try to keep the mole out of the 2nd half of the main sand pit. At least so far, it doesn't look like he's been able to get in and damage anything other than possibly the back of the garage slab.

My old man asked me what do I do if I trap him in the sand pit. I laughed and said that he can go above ground and just dig a hole outside of it. But I do wish I had been able to build those underground fences for the sand pit before the week long rain made its way in here. It would be nice to be able to verify he couldn't do any damage in there over the last 6 days before putting down stone.

There's really only two fences I need to put down to keep him out of that pit though. I'm going to try to get those done along with 1 coat of tar today. There are still a few more fences I want to make inside of that sand pit too as double protection around the porch and the side of the house foundation, and I do want to allow enough dry time for the tar to apply a 2nd coat like I did everywhere else, so I should have a few days time to see if I'm successfully keeping him out or not.

Gotta start getting up earlier. Sun is going down way too quick these days.

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Nope, no real leg on Pedro but lots of face shots which like I said I could more than live with. The movie was good and different from Russell's Gladiator. Going to get a copy but not sure if my birthday or Christmas.

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Oooh, you get dry and we get rain all weekend, even on my birthday. Waaah. S'no fun.

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Yeah. Nothing but rain for a full week now that really put me behind on my work. We were only supposed to get 1.5 days of rain, but it turned into 6.5 days. But it got so hot again that even with all that rain the sand was dry on top so I didn't get too messy today until the tar came out.

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Sorry about the mole. But I doubt they can get through rock. Dirt and sand would be nothing to the critters.

Yeah it is too bad that you couldn't have put that fence down deeper with the wire. Is the chicken wire holes really small because if they are too big a mole could get through easily. Just my thought.

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They're strong, but I doubt they're made for lifting a bunch of river rock to get below it. I think their strength lies when they're underground and they wouldn't have the leverage to lift those rocks out of the way when they're top side.

I still couldn't tell for sure if it got up under the rock I put behind the garage, but closer inspection on both sides leads me to believe that it actually couldn't even though it REALLY was trying to. I won't know for sure until I remove that rock, but at both ends where I blocked it off it looks like the earth wasn't displaced inside of that.

It's not really chicken wire. I just call it that. It is fairly rigid metal, and it's got 1/2" by 1/2" squares. It's quite a bit more expensive than chicken wire, actually, but I knew if I did that chicken wire it wouldn't be protecting anything. I don't think that moles can scrunch themselves down like mice can when they get under doorways because their entire existence is much different than a mouse's. If it was able to get that small to get between the 1/2" holes, they haven't figured out how to do it yet. The only time I've had a mole get past where I wanted it to go was when I didn't make a fence deep enough on the far side of the garage. So far it looks good.

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Well, I hope you can keep the mole from doing too much or any more damage to all your work.

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Tell me about the sun setting too early. After 6pm and I have to turn on a light or it starts to get too dingy in here.

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I don't know why I thought today was Tuesday this morning when I was posting. Thought I missed your B-day but I didn't.

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Nope, no real leg on Pedro but lots of face shots which like I said I could more than live with. The movie was good and different from Russell's Gladiator. Going to get a copy but not sure if my birthday or Christmas.

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Oooh, you get dry and we get rain all weekend, even on my birthday. Waaah. S'no fun.

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Yeah. Nothing but rain for a full week now that really put me behind on my work. We were only supposed to get 1.5 days of rain, but it turned into 6.5 days. But it got so hot again that even with all that rain the sand was dry on top so I didn't get too messy today until the tar came out.

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Sorry about the mole. But I doubt they can get through rock. Dirt and sand would be nothing to the critters.

Yeah it is too bad that you couldn't have put that fence down deeper with the wire. Is the chicken wire holes really small because if they are too big a mole could get through easily. Just my thought.

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They're strong, but I doubt they're made for lifting a bunch of river rock to get below it. I think their strength lies when they're underground and they wouldn't have the leverage to lift those rocks out of the way when they're top side.

I still couldn't tell for sure if it got up under the rock I put behind the garage, but closer inspection on both sides leads me to believe that it actually couldn't even though it REALLY was trying to. I won't know for sure until I remove that rock, but at both ends where I blocked it off it looks like the earth wasn't displaced inside of that.

It's not really chicken wire. I just call it that. It is fairly rigid metal, and it's got 1/2" by 1/2" squares. It's quite a bit more expensive than chicken wire, actually, but I knew if I did that chicken wire it wouldn't be protecting anything. I don't think that moles can scrunch themselves down like mice can when they get under doorways because their entire existence is much different than a mouse's. If it was able to get that small to get between the 1/2" holes, they haven't figured out how to do it yet. The only time I've had a mole get past where I wanted it to go was when I didn't make a fence deep enough on the far side of the garage. So far it looks good.

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Well, I hope you can keep the mole from doing too much or any more damage to all your work.

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Tell me about the sun setting too early. After 6pm and I have to turn on a light or it starts to get too dingy in here.

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I could have probably worked until 7PM tonight still with the light, but I had wrapped up something big and anything else I need to do was too large a project to try starting at 6:20PM when I got the other thing wrapped up.

I trenched out all the foundation like I said I would, I cleaned it up with a wire brush and gave it a good scrubbing with water and a brush before letting it all dry and getting a coat of tar up there. I'll see how that dries and hopefully in a few days I can get another coat up there before I back fill it all. I can't put any of the fencing where I need it for the pavers along the back foundation of the house until that is done and filled back in.

I also dug out all around the concrete slab that is under the water spigot too, so I could clean that off with a wire brush and dust it off real good. Now it's ready for bonding agent and new concrete when I'm ready to do that.

I may or may not have mentioned that before but this stupid slab is around 4.5 feet by 3.5 feet with the longer side being perpendicular to my house. The idiots poured the slab so that it grades down into my foundation instead of away from it. It's made of the concrete with rocks in it and it's at least 6" thick, so there's no way I can cut it off with one of my concrete blades.

Not only don't I want to bust it out with a sledge hammer because I could probably bust my foundation too, but it's also got the top of the cleanout valve for the back drain in the middle of it, so I'd almost certainly bust that too. So as much as I hate the idea, even with good prep work, I'm going to be pouring concrete on top of concrete to raise that up about 4.5" in the back and have it slope away from the house into the grass.

I never bothered measuring it before, but since I got it nice and clean I brought out my level and found out that the outside of the slab that is in the grass is 3" higher than the part of the slab touching the foundation.

NO WONDER I GOT SO MUCH WATER IN MY BASEMENT!!!!!

Tomorrow I will be putting down the rest of the fence boundary to the sand pit, and I'll probably put the edger bricks down while I'm at it too. I've kind of got to wait on that tar, and I'm getting my gas meter swapped soon and it's in the middle of my work and kind of close to that slab. I don't want to do anything with that slab or the landscaping back there until next week after they've swapped the new one in.

So this week now is all about fencing in and protecting the rest of the sand pit and getting those rocks down finally.



Oh yeah... and I was about to lose my CGM, but I caught it just in time. Most of it had peeled off, but enough was there to keep it inside and getting readings. Nothing I tried worked when I was trying to tape it back up, so I saw some box tape and actually wrapped 3 layers of it around my stomach to keep it in place. It's worked for about 3-4 hours of reaching and scrubbing low walls and then painting them all with tar. I can't believe it's still working right now.

I don't change the CGM until tomorrow night, so I'm afraid that's going to be staying wrapped around me all tonight and during work tomorrow.

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No worries about loosing days. I lost last Monday for a bit. I thought I had just gone from Sunday to Tuesday. Took me a bit of thinking before I realized what had happened. Nope, not missed at all.

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Yeah. Totally weird. It was only for a moment when I replied to you and thought that I missed your birthday and Monday was yesterday. I knew that it was Saturday when I was outside working. Brain fart.

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As I said. I haven't decided yet. I found a Funko of the Adama from Battlestar Galactica that I used to watch in high school. You wouldn't know the actor but he was Canadian. Lorne Greene. No relation to Graham.

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That's fun too. My brother has a ton of them. I know they're cute and most people think they're cute, but they kind if creep me out. I dunno why.

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Well at least the sun dried up all the rain and it won't hurt the sand anyways. Yeah, we get rain starting Sunday well into next week. Oh, well. Welcome to Fall in BC.

Have to agree with you there. I doubt that they could shift river rock like you are describing. I hope it didn't do any damage to your work.

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I think I'm good so far. Everything that I can see is good anyway. The good news about the activity is that I've had several tests now where I know it's tried to get in somewhere and it couldn't. I've also had 2 times where it was able to get in somewhere and I knew to go back down and double up deeper and they haven't got back in there now.

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Got ya. I was just thinking as I can remember my dad using chicken wire around a veg/fruit garden at a house we were living in in the Valley. Here's another memory from that time. A cougar took a walk through our yard when we were all in bed. My dad found the print in my brother's sand box. He was worried for a bit incase the cougar came back when my brother or I were outside. I saw the print but to me it looked like a big dog print. My dad let me think that. It wasn't until well after he was gone that my mum told me about the print. And my dad would have known what a cougar print looked like.

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Yeah. I think what I got is called "wire rebar" or something like that. I'm assuming that with a smaller concrete paver like the one I'm going to slope away from the house, you could use that to make it more solid. Probably wouldn't do much for a large slab, but something small it could help keep it from cracking during the cold weather.

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Yeah, with the sun going down so early you don't want to be starting anything big.

Sounds like you have a fair number of projects to get to next Spring.
Okay. Those pavers were really dummies. I mean had they never heard of a level. It is no wonder. Like I said dummies. Sledge hammer and foundation not good.

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Yeah... Lots of stuff needs to be done. I got enough to last me a few more years. I'm glad I'm back to working on it now.

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No worries about loosing days. I lost last Monday for a bit. I thought I had just gone from Sunday to Tuesday. Took me a bit of thinking before I realized what had happened. Nope, not missed at all.

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Yeah. Totally weird. It was only for a moment when I replied to you and thought that I missed your birthday and Monday was yesterday. I knew that it was Saturday when I was outside working. Brain fart.

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As I said. I haven't decided yet. I found a Funko of the Adama from Battlestar Galactica that I used to watch in high school. You wouldn't know the actor but he was Canadian. Lorne Greene. No relation to Graham.

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That's fun too. My brother has a ton of them. I know they're cute and most people think they're cute, but they kind if creep me out. I dunno why.

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Well at least the sun dried up all the rain and it won't hurt the sand anyways. Yeah, we get rain starting Sunday well into next week. Oh, well. Welcome to Fall in BC.

Have to agree with you there. I doubt that they could shift river rock like you are describing. I hope it didn't do any damage to your work.

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I think I'm good so far. Everything that I can see is good anyway. The good news about the activity is that I've had several tests now where I know it's tried to get in somewhere and it couldn't. I've also had 2 times where it was able to get in somewhere and I knew to go back down and double up deeper and they haven't got back in there now.

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Got ya. I was just thinking as I can remember my dad using chicken wire around a veg/fruit garden at a house we were living in in the Valley. Here's another memory from that time. A cougar took a walk through our yard when we were all in bed. My dad found the print in my brother's sand box. He was worried for a bit incase the cougar came back when my brother or I were outside. I saw the print but to me it looked like a big dog print. My dad let me think that. It wasn't until well after he was gone that my mum told me about the print. And my dad would have known what a cougar print looked like.

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Yeah. I think what I got is called "wire rebar" or something like that. I'm assuming that with a smaller concrete paver like the one I'm going to slope away from the house, you could use that to make it more solid. Probably wouldn't do much for a large slab, but something small it could help keep it from cracking during the cold weather.

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Yeah, with the sun going down so early you don't want to be starting anything big.

Sounds like you have a fair number of projects to get to next Spring.
Okay. Those pavers were really dummies. I mean had they never heard of a level. It is no wonder. Like I said dummies. Sledge hammer and foundation not good.

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Yeah... Lots of stuff needs to be done. I got enough to last me a few more years. I'm glad I'm back to working on it now.

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Ouch! I hope you don't have a lot of hair in that area. But still be careful as you could also pull off a whole lot of skin.

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I got a bit. Not much though. It's only box tape. I thought about putting duct tape on, or even the aluminum tape, but I'd rip every hair out of my body that it was touching if I did. Most of the tape has already come off my skin and is more like a rope around my back than anything else now. It's actually probably going to be pretty uncomfortable to sleep, but I do want to try to make this last as long as possible tomorrow. If I can make it to the end of the night, that was kind of a freebie since it was time to change it tomorrow. I'm going to be a lot more nervous 2 days from now when I'm out there sweating and working with a fresh one that has to last me 10 days.

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Oh, no SIX. That must have been really rough on you.

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It is raining on my birthday but I want to go out. Have return Gladiator 2 to the library and I think I will get that Funko Adama. Save Gladiator 2 for Christmas.

Will also take myself out to lunch as someone gave me a gift card on Thursday for a local restaurant.

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Also miracles of miracles I actually got a birthday message from my cousin up in Northern Alberta. Wasn't sure if I would or not. I answered her once and she replied. I will get back to her later.

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I hope you can get sleep tonight.

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Don't over do it today and that will help maybe with your glucose levels.

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Happy Birthday, Brenda.

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It is raining on my birthday but I want to go out. Have return Gladiator 2 to the library and I think I will get that Funko Adama. Save Gladiator 2 for Christmas.

Will also take myself out to lunch as someone gave me a gift card on Thursday for a local restaurant.

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Also miracles of miracles I actually got a birthday message from my cousin up in Northern Alberta. Wasn't sure if I would or not. I answered her once and she replied. I will get back to her later.

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Why don't you give her a ring and figure out when the next time you're meeting up is?

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I hope you can get sleep tonight.

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I did.

I actually took a nap during the day which was why I was worried I wouldn't. But I must have needed it because I had zero problems. Woke up on my own at 9AM this morning without an alarm, which is the earliest I've been up in quite a while.

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I don't think I overdid it. I don't feel wrecked like I have some other days. I was worried though because there wasn't a single cloud in that hazy sky and the sun was blaring, and it actually hit 90 degrees today.

Took as many breaks as I felt I needed and didn't try doing more than I needed to get done in one day. I thought maybe I'd start putting some rocks down at some point when I started, but I quickly dismissed that idea and just set a good pace.

I trenched out 9" deep from where my edger blocks (and mole fencing) ended in the back of the garage all the way to where it will meet the edger blocks on the back of the house. After that I got all the paver blocks in up to the house. I put some additional fencing in some critical spots, mostly around the corner of the garage and the corner of the house where the pavers are going to meet. Then I caved in all the mole tunnels in the section of the sand pit that is all fenced in now. I also used a wide dirt rake to break up the topsoil so I could grade everything away from the house/porch/garage and down into the center away from all 3 of them and tamped everything down. As long as that little shit doesn't go above ground to dive back into the pit over the fences, I should be good to put rock down pretty early tomorrow.

I've decided I want to put a divider with those edger blocks up along my back porch in the sand pit even though there will be nothing but rocks up to the foundation anyhow because I can get the dirt up higher on the foundation that way, and I can also slope that slightly downward to meet in the back of the house which will all be graded into the center of the sand pit. So I'm going to have to trench 9 feet for fencing along that tomorrow before rocks go down. I will probably put a "cage" underground in front of my concrete slab out back there too where I have two chairs and a little table. That will be another 16 feet or so worth of trenching. If I did all this work right, that's just a waste of time, but if a mole does manage to get its way back in, I really want to make sure it can't get up along the foundation anymore.

I'm actually really excited now. If that mole doesn't ruin my day tomorrow by making a huge mess tonight and I get to just get right to work in the morning, I'm going to finally have the vast majority of my rocks down by the end of the day tomorrow.

The only thing keeping me from finishing off the landscaping along the house now is that concrete slab I need to level out. Hopefully on Thursday that meter swap goes well and I can focus on the slab after that.

Once that's done, we'll see how much rock I have left. I'm pretty sure I should have enough to do the far side of the garage and then all my garage landscaping will be done. I probably don't have enough rock to continue that down the driveway to the street like I want to do, but that's probably a project better saved for next spring anyway. I've got some work to do on the land (grass) around that area first anyhow. I've basically got to remove some of the dirt that is under the grass in a few spots because it's just way too high and uneven. The goal is to get water to wick away from the driveway and not pool up on it close to the garage. There's an area that is just stupid high compared to the rest, and whenever they built that garage they should have removed all that extra dirt and put down some sod after they flattened it out. It's hard to explain without showing pictures, but after a few years of thinking about how I would deal with that with landscaping tricks, nothing has come to mind that would drain it properly.


I'm really bummed that I can't share photos of all of this, Brenda. Maybe when I'm finished I can look at all the pics I've taken along the way and see if there's any way I can crop them so they can't be identifiable but I can still show you what I've been doing.



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Thanks Six. I got myself the Funko Adama and it was also on sale. So instead of paying $20 CAD. I got it for around $10 CAD.

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Sweet!

The rare times I ever treat myself to anything I always make sure it's on sale. It's usually a power tool, 9 times out of 10.

But I'm serious about that new toilet. I'm not going to buy anything crazy like a bidet or something that has a bunch of computer do-dads on it, but as far as being a tall boy throne, the sky is the limit on the price here. I'll even buy me a nice new seat for it if it comes with a cheapo.

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That would be hilarious. Don't think she would fly out here and I don't feel like paying long distance. I never know if I will hear from her on birthday or not. Maybe I'm hearing more from her now because I'm getting older.

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Oh wow. You still have to pay long distance? I didn't even know that was a thing that people did anymore. I hate to ask a stupid question, but are you absolutely sure???

I take it that you always remember to call her on her birthday, but she doesn't always return that courtesy, huh?

I'm sure it's nothing personal. When I really had my shit together I was great about calling everyone on their birthday for a few years there, but I kinda stopped remembering to do that for a year or two now. Not everyone, but about half of them... Even people I hang out with pretty regularly. We can't all be on top of our game all the time, and I know it feels shitty when somebody forgets but you can't take it personally. I'm sure they feel real lousy when they later realized that they forgot.

Long story short, I think maybe she's remembering to reach out to you on your birthday because SHE is the one getting older.

Anyhow... I'm glad she remembered this time.

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I am really dreading the day when I go back to work and I need to use an alarm clock all the time. For the last 5 or 6 years, there's probably only been about 50 days that I needed to wake up to an alarm. I kind of just do whatever... but when I dive into computer projects and forget about everything else that's no good. Especially when I fall back into old routines where I'm up all night and I go to sleep after the sun comes up. Half of my adult life I've worked overnights, and I thrive at that time of day (). But there ain't no sense in doing that to myself if I'm not making a living while doing it. I tend to crawl pretty deeply back into my shell if I'm up all night doing the work alone, and then I'm not getting any of the things I need to be doing done.

I need a bit more sleep after working like this than I used to for sure. It's not really an age/diabetes thing. I just need to get my ass back into prime shape and I can't let myself do nothing but computer projects for 4 to 6 months between late fall and mid-spring.

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Good. You don't need to add extra stress to cause even more problems with your glucose levels.
Don't tell me about 90degree weather. I got rained on and it has been raining most of the evening.
That is what you need to do. Pace yourself and if you feel like you are over heating stop and drink something cold.

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Sorry about the rain. :(

I used to really love rain and thunderstorms when I was a kid. It was the best sleep I'd ever get, day or night. They've become nothing but a major source of stress in this house with all the issues. Hopefully I'm almost done taking care of them so I can enjoy a thunderstorm in this house one day. Maybe by the end of next Summer.

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That's great SIX. I think you will be able to get things sorted tomorrow.

No. I think you are doing a good job of explaining because I can sort of see in my mind's eye what you are talking about.

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Yeah. I still have tons of work left to do before the cold on this project, but being able to put down probably around 2/3rds of the river rock I have left tomorrow is real exciting. At that point I think I'll be finished with around TEN TONS of rock that I carted in 50lb bags from the DIY store to the all around the front and back of my house and garage.

It only took me something like 4 years to finally get it done.

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Sweet!

The rare times I ever treat myself to anything I always make sure it's on sale. It's usually a power tool, 9 times out of 10.

But I'm serious about that new toilet. I'm not going to buy anything crazy like a bidet or something that has a bunch of computer do-dads on it, but as far as being a tall boy throne, the sky is the limit on the price here. I'll even buy me a nice new seat for it if it comes with a cheapo.

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That would be hilarious. Don't think she would fly out here and I don't feel like paying long distance. I never know if I will hear from her on birthday or not. Maybe I'm hearing more from her now because I'm getting older.

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Oh wow. You still have to pay long distance? I didn't even know that was a thing that people did anymore. I hate to ask a stupid question, but are you absolutely sure???

I take it that you always remember to call her on her birthday, but she doesn't always return that courtesy, huh?

I'm sure it's nothing personal. When I really had my shit together I was great about calling everyone on their birthday for a few years there, but I kinda stopped remembering to do that for a year or two now. Not everyone, but about half of them... Even people I hang out with pretty regularly. We can't all be on top of our game all the time, and I know it feels shitty when somebody forgets but you can't take it personally. I'm sure they feel real lousy when they later realized that they forgot.

Long story short, I think maybe she's remembering to reach out to you on your birthday because SHE is the one getting older.

Anyhow... I'm glad she remembered this time.

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Great and naps are good thing. I'm sure you did need the sleep. Also nice you could wake up without an alarm clock.

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I am really dreading the day when I go back to work and I need to use an alarm clock all the time. For the last 5 or 6 years, there's probably only been about 50 days that I needed to wake up to an alarm. I kind of just do whatever... but when I dive into computer projects and forget about everything else that's no good. Especially when I fall back into old routines where I'm up all night and I go to sleep after the sun comes up. Half of my adult life I've worked overnights, and I thrive at that time of day (). But there ain't no sense in doing that to myself if I'm not making a living while doing it. I tend to crawl pretty deeply back into my shell if I'm up all night doing the work alone, and then I'm not getting any of the things I need to be doing done.

I need a bit more sleep after working like this than I used to for sure. It's not really an age/diabetes thing. I just need to get my ass back into prime shape and I can't let myself do nothing but computer projects for 4 to 6 months between late fall and mid-spring.

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Good. You don't need to add extra stress to cause even more problems with your glucose levels.
Don't tell me about 90degree weather. I got rained on and it has been raining most of the evening.
That is what you need to do. Pace yourself and if you feel like you are over heating stop and drink something cold.

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Slow and steady wins the race and avoids having a stroke.

Sorry about the rain. :(

I used to really love rain and thunderstorms when I was a kid. It was the best sleep I'd ever get, day or night. They've become nothing but a major source of stress in this house with all the issues. Hopefully I'm almost done taking care of them so I can enjoy a thunderstorm in this house one day. Maybe by the end of next Summer.

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That's great SIX. I think you will be able to get things sorted tomorrow.

No. I think you are doing a good job of explaining because I can sort of see in my mind's eye what you are talking about.

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Yeah. I still have tons of work left to do before the cold on this project, but being able to put down probably around 2/3rds of the river rock I have left tomorrow is real exciting. At that point I think I'll be finished with around TEN TONS of rock that I carted in 50lb bags from the DIY store to the all around the front and back of my house and garage.

It only took me something like 4 years to finally get it done.

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It would be nice to see what all your hard work ends up looking like.

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I'll see if I can cook something up when it's done. Got over a hundred pictures already.



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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

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