In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 10:30
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Originally posted by Brenda:
It was.
My thing was that I got into this routine with my mom especially where everything was a rush in the last few years of her life with doctors and hospitals. It can be very hard to get out of that mentality. I still every so often fall back into it.
True. But like they say old habits are hard to break. And that one keeps sneaking back up on me.
Balance is.
Trust me. I know the feeling of rushing. If I didn't waste so much time, then everything wouldn't be a rush when I'm working on it. Add to that me being a perfectionist, and it's like my psyche is tearing itself in half sometimes.
But now that I finally feel like I'm starting to get ahead of it, I'm able to have downtime without feeling so guilty about it these days. Boy... it will be nice to finally have the house done and only have to worry about regular maintenance stuff. I'm still a few years away from that, but I'm hoping I can really start to find the balance at that point.
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It will be good for you.
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The snow has arrived officially now before 2pm. It's sticking on balcony and the rooftops around me.
But I'm in for the day and so have to see what tomorrow brings.
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It will be good for you.
Can't wait.
Got a great head start on winter today and made the most of the nice temps before the freeze came in. Garage is clean. Pretty much everything I could think that I'd need for working inside is in the house and ready to go. Did a few last minute wall repairs in the garage that I forgot about. Tested my snowblower and generator.
Still no car, but plenty of room to park it. Haven't had this much room in there since I put the shelving up and organized everything. Actually, there's more in there now than there was before since I put my mower in the shed for the winter. And I also got the broken snowblower my neighbor gave me last year that I still haven't gotten around to fix. I'm giving that a 50/50 shot that all I need to do is change the spark plug. I'll use that for my front walkway since mine is way too big, and it will be a nice backup for me or my dad if his goes out.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
It will be good for you.
Can't wait.
Got a great head start on winter today and made the most of the nice temps before the freeze came in. Garage is clean. Pretty much everything I could think that I'd need for working inside is in the house and ready to go. Did a few last minute wall repairs in the garage that I forgot about. Tested my snowblower and generator.
Still no car, but plenty of room to park it. Haven't had this much room in there since I put the shelving up and organized everything. Actually, there's more in there now than there was before since I put my mower in the shed for the winter. And I also got the broken snowblower my neighbor gave me last year that I still haven't gotten around to fix. I'm giving that a 50/50 shot that all I need to do is change the spark plug. I'll use that for my front walkway since mine is way too big, and it will be a nice backup for me or my dad if his goes out.
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Sounds like a good use of a day and dry weather.
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Snow that arrived also brought strong winds so all ferries between the mainland and Vancouver Island were cancelled for Tuesday. Hopefully they will be back up and running tonight or early tomorrow morning.
Suppose to shift to rain around me by the time I head to bed. My area will probably all totaled have gotten around 9 inches which is 25cm.
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9 inches of rain or snow?
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9 inches of rain or snow?
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That's what the conversion table said 25cm works out to. But I doubt that my specific area saw that much. Won't know until I head out.
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Out in the snow and I will need my cane today.
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Quote:I know you'll be careful, but - be careful!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out in the snow and I will need my cane today.
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So vacation is over and I've been pushing thru misc chores, appts, errands and some yardwork which includes planning on how to regrade the front yard.
One side of the front walkway is very low, the other side has a hump that causes dirt to wash out onto the driveway. The complication is that there is a 20' Island Oak that I don't want to kill, so I've been digging around looking for tree roots to see how much I can move and where I need to stop.
But today will be just general cleanup. Tomorrow and the next few days are predicted to rain so its back to indoor work.
Made one of my more complicated recipes yesterday: Thai red curry with stirfry beef and hot sauce. There's a reason I don't do that too often: too many vegetables and herbs to prepare 1/4 c cilantro, potatoes, red pepper, snow peas, hot green peppers, grated ginger, pineapple, and lots of basil. Good thing my garden basil is still alive! I had some leftover cauliflower so i threw that in, too. Coconut milk, red curry paste, cumin, fish sauce and sugar. It's a tasty curry but a PITA.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I know you'll be careful, but - be careful!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out in the snow and I will need my cane today.
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I am always careful when walking in snow. Think my area got about an inch. Enough that everything is covered.
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Back from my walk and everything done for today including making some shortbread.
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Nothing of importance got done today. In fact, I took a super long nap that I'm going to regret tonight. 
Made some plans with my bud for tomorrow night. I'm going to help him drive a car back to his house, then he's ordering pizza and we're having that last movie night before moving his furniture out and we do the other work. We'll probably be bringing the furniture over to my place on Saturday.
Still no word on the car. I told him that it's been so long since I've driven one I might need him to give me lessons before I drive his car back to his house.
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I'm off to mah jong in the morning.
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Back from mah jong and no luck today.
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Quote:Well, maybe next time.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and no luck today.
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Quote:You mean the sofa and recliner?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nothing of importance got done today. In fact, I took a super long nap that I'm going to regret tonight.
Made some plans with my bud for tomorrow night. I'm going to help him drive a car back to his house, then he's ordering pizza and we're having that last movie night before moving his furniture out and we do the other work. We'll probably be bringing the furniture over to my place on Saturday.
Still no word on the car. I told him that it's been so long since I've driven one I might need him to give me lessons before I drive his car back to his house.
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I think your car is being worked on in a "time available" basis. When do you think you'll really need it?
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Well, despite interruptions I managed to trim a bush, rake up the driveway (almost a bins-worth of trimmings, leaves and pine needles), and finally wash the dog and trim her nails. If the rain holds off I'm going to rake up the back and pick up the palm stalks and grinds.
Speaking of rain... The predicted storm looks to be swinging north. We may not be getting rain but it looks like everywhere from Point Conception to Sacto is getting heavy rain, and snow in the Sierras. Woo hoo!
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Yeah. The sofa and recliner. Not sure if the fireplace is coming my way yet or not.
Mechanic got real sick over the weekend. I thought his wife died when he picked up the phone from how he sounded on Monday. He still sounded like shit today but he's going to have my car up tomorrow, he says....
Whatever.
As long as the price doesn't go beyond what he told me before, no biggie. I don't really need the car right now. I'm going to need to call in another favor on a ride if I don't have it by Saturday though. Just about ran out of perishables again.
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Wow. 7:15AM and nobody's posted here yet. That's a new record, I think.
Hope we didn't hurt Jaynez' feelings yesterday about the out-of-hand necroposting Sigs.
I agreed with you on it the first time and decided that the annoying factor wasn't as big of a con as bringing up old posts and updating them with current events was. But it was getting a little crazy in the last few weeks there, wasn't it?
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Well, maybe next time.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and no luck today.
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Yup, you never know. I managed 1 decent hand which was winds and dragons but it only got me over 600 points. And it took me an hour to break a thousand.
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Out for my walk in a bit. Still need my cane. A big storm was suppose to blow through last night but I don't think anything hit my area.
Have to see what happens weather wise today.
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Back from my walk and it was trying to snow but nothing was sticking. Sun is out some now and temp that was 0C is now sitting at -1C.
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Quote:Those old posts were a lot more interesting than the monomaniacal ones now. It's all RUSSIA! RUSSIA! and TDS.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wow. 7:15AM and nobody's posted here yet. That's a new record, I think.
Hope we didn't hurt Jaynez' feelings yesterday about the out-of-hand necroposting Sigs.
I agreed with you on it the first time and decided that the annoying factor wasn't as big of a con as bringing up old posts and updating them with current events was. But it was getting a little crazy in the last few weeks there, wasn't it?
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We had the expected drizzle/ showers this AM, which didn't amount to more than 1/16". Aside from walking the dog, I managed to get most of my online Xmas shopping done today. Like most Xmases, I get practical gifts. I hope they'll be well-used.
Outdoor work postponed until it dries out tomorrow.
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Got a dusting of snow on my balcony this afternoon but that was all. Weather people still say snow or a mix of rain and snow coming. This storm all depends on where you live.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Those old posts were a lot more interesting than the monomaniacal ones now. It's all RUSSIA! RUSSIA! and TDS.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wow. 7:15AM and nobody's posted here yet. That's a new record, I think.
Hope we didn't hurt Jaynez' feelings yesterday about the out-of-hand necroposting Sigs.
I agreed with you on it the first time and decided that the annoying factor wasn't as big of a con as bringing up old posts and updating them with current events was. But it was getting a little crazy in the last few weeks there, wasn't it?
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Yeah. I think they're even bored with themselves. Their posts seem to be less frequent every week.
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Making a lot of progress on my computer project stuff. Not much else going on right now.
Won't be helping my friend out tomorrow. He forgot some of his wife's family was coming and staying overnight and he'll be watching Football on Sunday and doesn't want to take the room apart until after the weekend. I think he's going to have a tough time letting that setup go.
We're going to have a lot of catchup work to do if the weekend is burned though. His choice. He's the one who's got to work all week. 
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Hey, I know you're concerned about getting sucked into your 'puter project, but I look at it this way: when nothing else is going on it's a good default. Bc, yanno, even ' 'puter projects need some love!
I've got to find me a good default. I have a potential 'puter projects if my own: finish organizing and archiving my digital photos. It would be better than playing solitaire, wouldn't it?
:smile;
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Yesterday another day busy with thises and thats.
It's sunny and cool today, so more yardwork is in today's schedule. General cleanup and raking, I think.
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Well whatever storm blow through last night didn't reach my area. It is dry and sunny this morning. Temp sitting 0C.
Still need cane, boots and etc. for going out in a bit.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hey, I know you're concerned about getting sucked into your 'puter project, but I look at it this way: when nothing else is going on it's a good default. Bc, yanno, even ' 'puter projects need some love!
Yeah... well when I say I'm "making a lot of progress" on this project it's really like spraying a garden hose into the ocean.
Fortunately for me, I still have some relationships with some REAL "computer people" that I developed a long time ago, and with a little collaboration with them I've been able to make a lot more progress on one specific new thing I've been doing. I won't go into details in these forums other than to say that it's a long time archival and preservation effort that I spearheaded back in the mid-aughts and has since grown a lot larger than me.
I was always the "brute force" guy who was able to surround himself with smarter people to get some amazing things done.
Most of what I've been doing with this on the side is nothing more than redundancy, documentation and cataloging of behind the scenes stuff that everybody else just assume works and doesn't bother verifying. In this most recent endeavor so far, covering roughly 3,000 "things", I've already discovered 2 "things" that weren't right. At the end of the day, it doesn't really effect much, but you know what a perfectionist I am, and once I'm done those two things and maybe a few by the time this part is finished, everything related to it will work behind the scenes and issues won't accidentally pop up on anybody down the road, but otherwise nobody will ever notice anything was done.
We've all learned quite a few other things that we didn't know during this process. Most all of it completely trivial in the scheme of things, but I like having definitive answers for behavior that aren't based off of assumptions.
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I've got to find me a good default. I have a potential 'puter projects if my own: finish organizing and archiving my digital photos. It would be better than playing solitaire, wouldn't it?
:smile;
Sure it would... If you can handle the tedium and not lose yourself in it.
You've got a family at home that wouldn't let you do that, so you're probably safe.
I've got too much Real World stuff to do now myself. Not just the things that NEED to be done, but also the stuff I just enjoy doing... especially now that I have a lot of tools to do the stuff correctly.
Also, since I've reestablished friend and family relationships and it's become important to me to maintain them (when it wasn't back when I lost myself in this project), I can't imagine that I would ever do that again. I had nearly a solid week straight where I let my sleep schedule get out of wack just recently, but when I needed to step away from it for the RL stuff it wasn't a problem to revert right back to "normal".
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I never watched Futurama but if that video clip is representative maybe I should have.
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Back from my walk and still bright and sunny. Temp is now up to 2C which is warmer than when I went out.
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Quote:Wish could send you some of our weather. Sounds cold.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from my walk and still bright and sunny. Temp is now up to 2C which is warmer than when I went out.
*****
Got some general cleanup done with dear daughter"s help.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Wish could send you some of our weather. Sounds cold.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from my walk and still bright and sunny. Temp is now up to 2C which is warmer than when I went out.
*****
Got some general cleanup done with dear daughter"s help.
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It is cold and we are under temp for this time of year. My area of BC should be sitting at 7C.
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I never watched Futurama but if that video clip is representative maybe I should have.
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Futurama is SO good. You should, you should.
That's one of my favorite quotes ever, and it's from one of my favorite episodes.
Season 3, Episode 20: Godfellas
Here's a longer scene from that episode. Makes me giggle.
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Wish could send you some of our weather. Sounds cold.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from my walk and still bright and sunny. Temp is now up to 2C which is warmer than when I went out.
*****
Got some general cleanup done with dear daughter"s help.
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It is cold and we are under temp for this time of year. My area of BC should be sitting at 7C.
What I've noticed that's strange is that for the next month accuweather is predicting that we're going to be trending lower for the highs during the day, but we're also going to be trending higher for the lows at night. It doesn't look like a one-off thing either. That's their prediction nearly every day for the next 30 days.
It's 21 degrees here right now, and my heat isn't going off much. It's amazing how much less energy you burn up when you drop the thermostat around 7 degrees.
But if I'm not bundled up you sure notice the difference in temp from the time right before the thermostat kicks the furnace on to right after it cycles off and raises that temp about 5 degrees.
Fortunately, one of my 6 vents is in the bathroom and when I'm going to take a shower I can just close that door for a while and it's way hotter in there than the rest of the house for shower time.
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Just a slow Sunday around me.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Those old posts were a lot more interesting than the monomaniacal ones now. It's all RUSSIA! RUSSIA! and TDS.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wow. 7:15AM and nobody's posted here yet. That's a new record, I think.
Hope we didn't hurt Jaynez' feelings yesterday about the out-of-hand necroposting Sigs.
I agreed with you on it the first time and decided that the annoying factor wasn't as big of a con as bringing up old posts and updating them with current events was. But it was getting a little crazy in the last few weeks there, wasn't it?
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Oh. He must have just been taking a day or two off. At least another dozen necroposts in the forum this morning.
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Out for my walk. Need some small brushes to get the rest of the dust out of the heaters in my place. Dust build up happens fast in this place and I don't need to set off the new smoke detector by accident.
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Jeez... Maybe you should get yourself one of those ionizers so you don't breathe all of that dust in?
I just looked into it... I dunno. They say that the ozone created by the ionizers might be just as bad if not worse for you.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't, huh?
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Jeez... Maybe you should get yourself one of those ionizers so you don't breathe all of that dust in?
I just looked into it... I dunno. They say that the ozone created by the ionizers might be just as bad if not worse for you.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't, huh?
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I don't really have room for one of those things. I just put a mask on so I wouldn't breath in the dust I was sweeping out and I was fine.
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Quote:We have the same problem here. Part of the problem is that we're bounded on two sides by fwys and on two sides by busy roads. And when it gets dry and the wind blows, it gets dusty. We track a lot of silt in on our shoes, despite mats at all the doors. And our air handler hasn't been cleaned in a decade, but when they installed they made it inaccessible.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Jeez... Maybe you should get yourself one of those ionizers so you don't breathe all of that dust in?
I just looked into it... I dunno. They say that the ozone created by the ionizers might be just as bad if not worse for you.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't, huh?
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But you're ten floors up, so all of the ground-level dust should never get to your apartment.
Do all of the apartments share a central heating unit? If so, do you have individual thermostats, or just ducts and registers to control your heating? Or does each apartment have its own furnace?
Anyway, unless there's some way to clean the ducts and air handler, there's not much can be done cheaply. There is a cloth you can fit behind the register grill, they claim develops static electricity when air flows thru it, and the static charge attracts dust better than a plain filter. It can be cut with scissors, it's cheap, and can be changed as often as necessary.
Aside from that, most of the high efficiency room air filters tend to be noisy or expensive - often both. And altho they catch a lot of dust, it's not enough to make a noticeable difference in the times I have to vacuum and dust. Allergists AFAIK have given up on the idea of cleaning up air inside the home.
But there are a few significant sources of dust.
One way to stop dust is a shoes-off spot near the doorway, and big mats. I got so tired of sawdust being tracked into the house I put a lot of mats down so "people" (ahem!) who don't wipe their feet have to take at least four steps on them on the way in.
And most dust settles to the floor, so carpets need to be vigorously vacuumed with a cleaner that has a beater bar/brush, good suction, and good filtration. I like to vacuum hard flooring as well.
Cloth upholstery and curtains are also source dust. In fact, the more surfaces you can make wipe-able, the better off you'll be.
I've found that giving the house a good vacuuming (including vacuuming soft furniture) and dusting hard surfaces with a damp cloth helps reduce the overall amount of dust and the number of times I have to do it.
And now, I have to finish vacuuming bc the dog is shedding, and altho I've given her a bath and brushing there's dog fur all over the floor.... It's terrible.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:We have the same problem here. Part of the problem is that we're bounded on two sides by fwys and on two sides by busy roads. And when it gets dry and the wind blows, it gets dusty. We track a lot of silt in on our shoes, despite mats at all the doors. And our air handler hasn't been cleaned in a decade, but when they installed they made it inaccessible.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Jeez... Maybe you should get yourself one of those ionizers so you don't breathe all of that dust in?
I just looked into it... I dunno. They say that the ozone created by the ionizers might be just as bad if not worse for you.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't, huh?
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But you're ten floors up, so all of the ground-level dust should never get to your apartment.
Do all of the apartments share a central heating unit? If so, do you have individual thermostats, or just ducts and registers to control your heating? Or does each apartment have its own furnace?
Anyway, unless there's some way to clean the ducts and air handler, there's not much can be done cheaply. There is a cloth you can fit behind the register grill, they claim develops static electricity when air flows thru it, and the static charge attracts dust better than a plain filter. It can be cut with scissors, it's cheap, and can be changed as often as necessary.
Aside from that, most of the high efficiency room air filters tend to be noisy or expensive - often both. And altho they catch a lot of dust, it's not enough to make a noticeable difference in the times I have to vacuum and dust. Allergists AFAIK have given up on the idea of cleaning up air inside the home.
But there are a few significant sources of dust.
One way to stop dust is a shoes-off spot near the doorway, and big mats. I got so tired of sawdust being tracked into the house I put a lot of mats down so "people" (ahem!) who don't wipe their feet have to take at least four steps on them on the way in.
And most dust settles to the floor, so carpets need to be vigorously vacuumed with a cleaner that has a beater bar/brush, good suction, and good filtration. I like to vacuum hard flooring as well.
Cloth upholstery and curtains are also source dust. In fact, the more surfaces you can make wipe-able, the better off you'll be.
I've found that giving the house a good vacuuming (including vacuuming soft furniture) and dusting hard surfaces with a damp cloth helps reduce the overall amount of dust and the number of times I have to do it.
And now, I have to finish vacuuming bc the dog is shedding, and altho I've given her a bath and brushing there's dog fur all over the floor.... It's terrible.
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I'm on the tenth floor and each apartment has their own thermostat to regulate heat.
When I got back today, I gave each heater and going over with the brushes and vacuumed the one in the bedroom. I turned it on before supper and what I did worked. So, I am happy.
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Give your dog a big hug for me. My buddy's dog just died a few days ago and I loved that thing more than I did most people. :(
I gave my other buddy some "orders" this morning after finding a good paint sale. Surprisingly, he called me up after he bought everything. I was sure he was going to ask if he could pick me up to pick out the colors and paint for him. He didn't even bother looking at other colors and got the exact same ones I've used in my porch and my living room. (Not too surprised about that though, because I've got a ton of compliments on the two colors and how they compliment each other... including from him).
So, hopefully, the plan is he'll stop working early on Wednesday, we'll get the furniture to my place and then start painting. He asked me if I'd come by Thursday night and help him finish the job and I told him that wasn't a problem.
I'm hoping he got his "homework" done tonight though. He was supposed to dust all the walls, get the TV off the wall mount, take the wall mount down and patch it... and then sand that down tomorrow night and see if it needs any more mud before I get there on Wednesday.
Finger's crossed.
Also talked to my mechanic again because I love annoying myself. Supposedly it will be done tomorrow but it's not like I haven't heard that before. Whatever.
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Quote:I'm trying to understand your setup. Most large apartment buildings - I consider a 10 story blgwith elevators to be karge- have a ginormous hiut water heater (bouker) in the basement that provides hot water for the entire building, and some sort of central heater that orovuide hot air (and here, usually AC) for the whole building as well, with complex pneumatic or solenoid valves to control hot and chilled air flow so that each apartment has its own thermostat.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:We have the same problem here. Part of the problem is that we're bounded on two sides by fwys and on two sides by busy roads. And when it gets dry and the wind blows, it gets dusty. We track a lot of silt in on our shoes, despite mats at all the doors. And our air handler hasn't been cleaned in a decade, but when they installed they made it inaccessible.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Jeez... Maybe you should get yourself one of those ionizers so you don't breathe all of that dust in?
I just looked into it... I dunno. They say that the ozone created by the ionizers might be just as bad if not worse for you.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't, huh?
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But you're ten floors up, so all of the ground-level dust should never get to your apartment.
Do all of the apartments share a central heating unit? If so, do you have individual thermostats, or just ducts and registers to control your heating? Or does each apartment have its own furnace?
Anyway, unless there's some way to clean the ducts and air handler, there's not much can be done cheaply. There is a cloth you can fit behind the register grill, they claim develops static electricity when air flows thru it, and the static charge attracts dust better than a plain filter. It can be cut with scissors, it's cheap, and can be changed as often as necessary.
Aside from that, most of the high efficiency room air filters tend to be noisy or expensive - often both. And altho they catch a lot of dust, it's not enough to make a noticeable difference in the times I have to vacuum and dust. Allergists AFAIK have given up on the idea of cleaning up air inside the home.
But there are a few significant sources of dust.
One way to stop dust is a shoes-off spot near the doorway, and big mats. I got so tired of sawdust being tracked into the house I put a lot of mats down so "people" (ahem!) who don't wipe their feet have to take at least four steps on them on the way in.
And most dust settles to the floor, so carpets need to be vigorously vacuumed with a cleaner that has a beater bar/brush, good suction, and good filtration. I like to vacuum hard flooring as well.
Cloth upholstery and curtains are also source dust. In fact, the more surfaces you can make wipe-able, the better off you'll be.
I've found that giving the house a good vacuuming (including vacuuming soft furniture) and dusting hard surfaces with a damp cloth helps reduce the overall amount of dust and the number of times I have to do it.
And now, I have to finish vacuuming bc the dog is shedding, and altho I've given her a bath and brushing there's dog fur all over the floor.... It's terrible.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
I'm on the tenth floor and each apartment has their own thermostat to regulate heat.
When I got back today, I gave each heater and going over with the brushes and vacuumed the one in the bedroom. I turned it on before supper and what I did worked. So, I am happy.
In older buildings, each unit had a gas floor or wall heater and sometimes a window AC fitted in after the fact. REALLY old buildings had radiators. But I can't imagine a newish bldg with any of those bc of inefficiency and safety concerns, so
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I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Brenda doesn't have more dust in her apartment than I've got in my house. I've never cleaned my ducts since I've been here, and god only knows the last time they were cleaned... if ever.
I don't have any carpets to hold any of it in anymore. I usually vacuum before somebody comes over to visit, but only on the 1st floor and the stairs to the bathroom on the 2nd floor. Maybe I hit the floors upstairs about once a year, and the floors in the basement about twice a year.
I barely ever dust. Maybe once a year. My jet black TV stand in the livingroom is covered in it. I probably only hit the ceilings with my vacuums about every 2 years for the cobwebs that start showing up when you don't regularly get the dust sucked up.
I do it enough where it's only a fine coating. A while back I was cleaning my grandma's kitchen that probably hadn't had a deep clean for about 12 or more years and I couldn't believe the thickness of the dust coverage. There were still cats living there before the last clean which made it even worse. It wasn't on any of the highly used surfaces that get cleaned regularly like the table or countertops, or heavy foot traffic areas, but in the nooks and crannies and above the fridge and underneath it were pretty ghastly. Fortunately there wasn't mouse crap in it too... It looks like 99% of the mouse activity remained in the basement since they did have some food in that fruit cellar which they were munching on and didn't need to venture upstairs where human activity was a regular thing.
I'm just not all that sensitive to dust. Perhaps Brenda is more sensitive to it and it's why it's a bother for her.
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I guess I still find it astonishing how dusty our house gets, even compared to other places we've lived in SoCal. Last time I visited my childhood home it was winter, and there was hardly any dust anywhere, even upstairs that is hardly used. Here, it's a constant battle. I've tried eliminating as many sources of dust as possible but it's still seriously dusty.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I'm trying to understand your setup. Most large apartment buildings - I consider a 10 story blgwith elevators to be karge- have a ginormous hiut water heater (bouker) in the basement that provides hot water for the entire building, and some sort of central heater that orovuide hot air (and here, usually AC) for the whole building as well, with complex pneumatic or solenoid valves to control hot and chilled air flow so that each apartment has its own thermostat.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:We have the same problem here. Part of the problem is that we're bounded on two sides by fwys and on two sides by busy roads. And when it gets dry and the wind blows, it gets dusty. We track a lot of silt in on our shoes, despite mats at all the doors. And our air handler hasn't been cleaned in a decade, but when they installed they made it inaccessible.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Jeez... Maybe you should get yourself one of those ionizers so you don't breathe all of that dust in?
I just looked into it... I dunno. They say that the ozone created by the ionizers might be just as bad if not worse for you.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't, huh?
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But you're ten floors up, so all of the ground-level dust should never get to your apartment.
Do all of the apartments share a central heating unit? If so, do you have individual thermostats, or just ducts and registers to control your heating? Or does each apartment have its own furnace?
Anyway, unless there's some way to clean the ducts and air handler, there's not much can be done cheaply. There is a cloth you can fit behind the register grill, they claim develops static electricity when air flows thru it, and the static charge attracts dust better than a plain filter. It can be cut with scissors, it's cheap, and can be changed as often as necessary.
Aside from that, most of the high efficiency room air filters tend to be noisy or expensive - often both. And altho they catch a lot of dust, it's not enough to make a noticeable difference in the times I have to vacuum and dust. Allergists AFAIK have given up on the idea of cleaning up air inside the home.
But there are a few significant sources of dust.
One way to stop dust is a shoes-off spot near the doorway, and big mats. I got so tired of sawdust being tracked into the house I put a lot of mats down so "people" (ahem!) who don't wipe their feet have to take at least four steps on them on the way in.
And most dust settles to the floor, so carpets need to be vigorously vacuumed with a cleaner that has a beater bar/brush, good suction, and good filtration. I like to vacuum hard flooring as well.
Cloth upholstery and curtains are also source dust. In fact, the more surfaces you can make wipe-able, the better off you'll be.
I've found that giving the house a good vacuuming (including vacuuming soft furniture) and dusting hard surfaces with a damp cloth helps reduce the overall amount of dust and the number of times I have to do it.
And now, I have to finish vacuuming bc the dog is shedding, and altho I've given her a bath and brushing there's dog fur all over the floor.... It's terrible.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
I'm on the tenth floor and each apartment has their own thermostat to regulate heat.
When I got back today, I gave each heater and going over with the brushes and vacuumed the one in the bedroom. I turned it on before supper and what I did worked. So, I am happy.
In older buildings, each unit had a gas floor or wall heater and sometimes a window AC fitted in after the fact. REALLY old buildings had radiators. But I can't imagine a newish bldg with any of those bc
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Plumbers are in the building today to clean out the pipes and set them up for winter. Won't bother anyone unless they are in all day as they have to turn off the water to do this. They were suppose to start around 9am today and be finished around 4pm.
I am out for my walk in a bit just a couple of small things to do today.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I guess I still find it astonishing how dusty our house gets, even compared to other places we've lived in SoCal. Last time I visited my childhood home it was winter, and there was hardly any dust anywhere, even upstairs that is hardly used. Here, it's a constant battle. I've tried eliminating as many sources of dust as possible but it's still seriously dusty.
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You get dust from just about everything. Your A/C unit is going to bring a lot in, and the filter isn't going to catch but a fraction of it. You've got three people living in the house that are shedding skin all day everyday. Pets too, and they're bringing in more when they go outside. Unless your doors and windows are hermetically sealed, you're getting stuff that way all the time too.
Hell... you're getting it every time you open up and use new toilet paper and paper towel. I can see that in my own bathroom in the morning from the way the light comes in the room. Just by unrolling some toilet paper all the sudden there are a bunch of dust particles dancing around in the sunlight.
Fortunately for us, except for asbestos which is still in a lot of our houses, not a lot of particles are the right measurement to become embedded in our lungs and cause cancer, and as long as you're healthy your body does a great job of removing them from the system. Your lungs are a better filter than any you'll ever own for your household appliances.
But dust can be pretty traumatizing for neat freaks and people with allergies. I'm only a neat freak when it comes to certain things, and although I never used to be allergic to anything I'm only seriously allergic to Amoxicillin now and mildly allergic to whatever gets tossed in the air when I'm mowing my own lawn.
2 of the 3 houses I grew up in after the divorce were smoking homes. The third house had pets. Even when I let the dust accumulate on my "things" for a while, I've still got a cleaner home than any of the ones I grew up in.
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Oh yeah... BTW... an opportunity came up somewhat recently and I did a little experiment.
I was going to say that I was allergic to Amox, but because that was never a definitive and I thought it might have been a food allergy, I took the scrip.
10 day scrip and everything was fine until the last day when everything below my waistline, particularly where my sweatpants were tight was on fire. 3 hours later I had hives all over. I told myself that I wasn't going to scratch this time, but by the 2nd night I had been "sleep scratching" for who knows how long and from the top of my feet to my neck and my scalp had been covered in hives.
About 5 days later they went away completely, although the itchiness remained for another 3 days and nights.
Eating food in general may have exacerbated it, but it wasn't the food itself. Once I realized what was happening I switched up what I was eating every night and it didn't make the symptoms any worse or better. Either the bulk of my flareups were occurring naturally at night and were coincidental to the fact that I eat at night, or just the act of ingesting food would make the situation worse. I do not have a food allergy.
That's good news, but boy was I regretting voluntarily putting myself back into that position. Now that it's over I'm glad I know though.
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Back from my walk on a dry at least. Some clouds around. But I got all errands done for today.
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Quote:Oh I have so many allergies that they couldn't fit all of them into a single allergy shot, so they had to go with the top 22. Food allergies too.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I guess I still find it astonishing how dusty our house gets, even compared to other places we've lived in SoCal. Last time I visited my childhood home it was winter, and there was hardly any dust anywhere, even upstairs that is hardly used. Here, it's a constant battle. I've tried eliminating as many sources of dust as possible but it's still seriously dusty.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
You get dust from just about everything. Your A/C unit is going to bring a lot in, and the filter isn't going to catch but a fraction of it. You've got three people living in the house that are shedding skin all day everyday. Pets too, and they're bringing in more when they go outside. Unless your doors and windows are hermetically sealed, you're getting stuff that way all the time too.
Hell... you're getting it every time you open up and use new toilet paper and paper towel. I can see that in my own bathroom in the morning from the way the light comes in the room. Just by unrolling some toilet paper all the sudden there are a bunch of dust particles dancing around in the sunlight.
Fortunately for us, except for asbestos which is still in a lot of our houses, not a lot of particles are the right measurement to become embedded in our lungs and cause cancer, and as long as you're healthy your body does a great job of removing them from the system. Your lungs are a better filter than any you'll ever own for your household appliances.
But dust can be pretty traumatizing for neat freaks and people with allergies. I'm only a neat freak when it comes to certain things, and although I never used to be allergic to anything I'm only seriously allergic to Amoxicillin now and mildly allergic to whatever gets tossed in the air when I'm mowing my own lawn.
2 of the 3 houses I grew up in after the divorce were smoking homes. The third house had pets. Even when I let the dust accumulate on my "things" for a while, I've still got a cleaner home than any of the ones I grew up in.
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I stopped giving myself allergy shots (inhaled allergens only) about two chemo infusions into my treatment... there's only so much misery I could subject myself to. The shots (which I gave myself for three years) helped with my significant mosquito allergy (bites actually caused hives) but I'm still wildly allergic to something in the Santa Anas. Hubby is also significantly allergic to something in house dust. Don't know what component exactly but every time he cleans out a PC or gets a snootful some other way, he sneezes and his eyes drip for hours.
SIX, allergies to the point of hives is nothing to fool with. If it progresses to swollen tongue, or worse, that's ER kind of trouble. Ideally you should have an epinephrine injector on hand, but since those are crazy expensive at least have some diphenhydramine (genetic for benadryl) on hand, or one of the 2nd generation antihistamines
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For urticaria [hives], cetirizine and mizolastine demonstrate superior suppression of wheal and flare at the dosages recommended by the manufacturer. For atopic dermatitis [eczema], as adjunctive therapy to reduce pruritus, cetirizine, ketotifen and loratadine demonstrate efficacy.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9951950/
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Oh I have so many allergies that they couldn't fit all of them into a single allergy shot, so they had to go with the top 22. Food allergies too.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I guess I still find it astonishing how dusty our house gets, even compared to other places we've lived in SoCal. Last time I visited my childhood home it was winter, and there was hardly any dust anywhere, even upstairs that is hardly used. Here, it's a constant battle. I've tried eliminating as many sources of dust as possible but it's still seriously dusty.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
You get dust from just about everything. Your A/C unit is going to bring a lot in, and the filter isn't going to catch but a fraction of it. You've got three people living in the house that are shedding skin all day everyday. Pets too, and they're bringing in more when they go outside. Unless your doors and windows are hermetically sealed, you're getting stuff that way all the time too.
Hell... you're getting it every time you open up and use new toilet paper and paper towel. I can see that in my own bathroom in the morning from the way the light comes in the room. Just by unrolling some toilet paper all the sudden there are a bunch of dust particles dancing around in the sunlight.
Fortunately for us, except for asbestos which is still in a lot of our houses, not a lot of particles are the right measurement to become embedded in our lungs and cause cancer, and as long as you're healthy your body does a great job of removing them from the system. Your lungs are a better filter than any you'll ever own for your household appliances.
But dust can be pretty traumatizing for neat freaks and people with allergies. I'm only a neat freak when it comes to certain things, and although I never used to be allergic to anything I'm only seriously allergic to Amoxicillin now and mildly allergic to whatever gets tossed in the air when I'm mowing my own lawn.
2 of the 3 houses I grew up in after the divorce were smoking homes. The third house had pets. Even when I let the dust accumulate on my "things" for a while, I've still got a cleaner home than any of the ones I grew up in.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
I stopped giving myself allergy shots (inhaled allergens only) about two chemo infusions into my treatment... there's only so much misery I could subject myself to. The shots (which I gave myself for three years) helped with my significant mosquito allergy (bites actually caused hives) but I'm still wildly allergic to something in the Santa Anas. Hubby is also significantly allergic to something in house dust. Don't know what component exactly but every time he cleans out a PC or gets a snootful some other way, he sneezes and his eyes drip for hours.
SIX, allergies to the point of hives is nothing to fool with. If it progresses to swollen tongue, or worse, that's ER kind of trouble. Ideally you should have an epinephrine injector on hand, but since those are crazy expensive at least have some diphenhydramine (genetic for benadryl) on hand, or one of the 2nd generation antihistaminesQuote:
For urticaria [hives], cetirizine and mizolastine demonstrate superior suppression of wheal and flare at the dosages recommended by the manufacturer. For atopic dermatitis [eczema], as adjunctive therapy to reduce pruritus, cetirizine, ketotifen and loratadine demonstrate efficacy.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9951950/
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Thank you for the warning. I was aware of the possibility of it going south if anything beyond hives happened, so I was sensitive to
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Local to the bite, but ginormous. I had a mosquito bite on my lower shin and it created a deep blister the size of my palm that wept for weeks. Eventually I had to put a gauze and ace bandage on it to tack the skin back down to the underlying tissue so it would heal together. That was gross.
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Local to the bite, but ginormous. I had a mosquito bite on my lower shin and it created a deep blister the size of my palm that wept for weeks. Eventually I had to put a gauze and ace bandage on it to tack the skin back down to the underlying tissue so it would heal together. That was gross.
Oh boy...
Your reaction was quite a bit different to mine for sure.
My hives basically would appear everywhere on my body except for my face, my palms and the soles of my feet. They never were in my mouth, on my ears or in them either.
They never "blistered" or broke though, and not for lack of trying. I scratched the hell out of everything.
I did break some skin by the end though. That was after hives would pop up, but if I wasn't watching what I was doing I would absently scratch the backs of my hands and my knuckles and I was damaging the skin there. No oozing or nothing, and it went away with some hand lotion and me not scratching it anymore after the issue ended.
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BTW... what are your thoughts on the hives all but disappearing the day after I just gave into the itch and made the hives rise up on almost every square inch of my body?
That happened both times I had it.
It could be a coincidence, but I was thinking that maybe I was "using up" the histamine supply by bringing all of that to the surface at once and maybe it would have lasted longer if I didn't do that?
Really... Both times I've had the problem, the hives were almost non-existant in the itchy days that followed after just giving in and giving every square inch of my skin a thorough scratch.
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Have rain right now and most likely it will stay warm enough for that.
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Quote:Don't know. Histamine is produced by "mast cells" which are mostly in the boundary between the "outside world" and you: mucosa, nose, mouth, lungs, skin, and gut. But once histamine's in the bloodstream it can cause symptoms anywhere. So if your gut mast cells release histamine it can cause your skin to wheal and itch. Eventually various enzymes break down the histamine. I suppose by rubbing your skin you might cause histamine to latch onto your skin ( as opposed to somewhere else?) where it gets broken down.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
BTW... what are your thoughts on the hives all but disappearing the day after I just gave into the itch and made the hives rise up on almost every square inch of my body?
That happened both times I had it.
It could be a coincidence, but I was thinking that maybe I was "using up" the histamine supply by bringing all of that to the surface at once and maybe it would have lasted longer if I didn't do that?
Really... Both times I've had the problem, the hives were almost non-existant in the itchy days that followed after just giving in and giving every square inch of my skin a thorough scratch.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Don't know. Histamine is produced by "mast cells" which are mostly in the boundary between the "outside world" and you: mucosa, nose, mouth, lungs, skin, and gut. But once histamine's in the bloodstream it can cause symptoms anywhere. So if your gut mast cells release histamine it can cause your skin to wheal and itch. Eventually various enzymes break down the histamine. I suppose by rubbing your skin you might cause histamine to latch onto your skin ( as opposed to somewhere else?) where it gets broken down.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
BTW... what are your thoughts on the hives all but disappearing the day after I just gave into the itch and made the hives rise up on almost every square inch of my body?
That happened both times I had it.
It could be a coincidence, but I was thinking that maybe I was "using up" the histamine supply by bringing all of that to the surface at once and maybe it would have lasted longer if I didn't do that?
Really... Both times I've had the problem, the hives were almost non-existant in the itchy days that followed after just giving in and giving every square inch of my skin a thorough scratch.
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Well then...
I guess I'm just going to have to take Amox one last time in the name of Science.
No holding back... Just straight up scratching my body like it's my full time job the second the hives set in this time.
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Out for my walk in a bit. Need to mail a birthday card to Edmonton and do a couple of other things. Trying to figure out what to have with some chicken thighs I bought yesterday.
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Quote:Er... there's no guarantee that the next reaction will stay at the "hives" stage. Each exposure primes you for a worse reaction, which could very well be anaphylaxis.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Don't know. Histamine is produced by "mast cells" which are mostly in the boundary between the "outside world" and you: mucosa, nose, mouth, lungs, skin, and gut. But once histamine's in the bloodstream it can cause symptoms anywhere. So if your gut mast cells release histamine it can cause your skin to wheal and itch. Eventually various enzymes break down the histamine. I suppose by rubbing your skin you might cause histamine to latch onto your skin ( as opposed to somewhere else?) where it gets broken down.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
BTW... what are your thoughts on the hives all but disappearing the day after I just gave into the itch and made the hives rise up on almost every square inch of my body?
That happened both times I had it.
It could be a coincidence, but I was thinking that maybe I was "using up" the histamine supply by bringing all of that to the surface at once and maybe it would have lasted longer if I didn't do that?
Really... Both times I've had the problem, the hives were almost non-existant in the itchy days that followed after just giving in and giving every square inch of my skin a thorough scratch.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Well then...
I guess I'm just going to have to take Amox one last time in the name of Science.
No holding back... Just straight up scratching my body like it's my full time job the second the hives set in this time.
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Anaphylaxis is what happens when your blood vessels become excessively leaky, and leak fluid into the surrounding tissues. It can cause your throat to swell so badly that you suffocate. Alternately, the sudden loss of blood volume can cause your heart to stutter and give up.
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Anaphylaxis is a severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction. It can occur within seconds or minutes of exposure to something you're allergic to, such as peanuts or bee stings.
Anaphylaxis causes the immune system to release a flood of chemicals that can cause you to go into shock — blood pressure drops suddenly and the airways narrow, blocking breathing. Signs and symptoms include a rapid, weak pulse; a skin rash; and nausea and vomiting. Common triggers include certain foods, some medications, insect venom and latex.
Anaphylaxis requires an injection of epinephrine and a follow-up trip to an emergency room. If you don't have epinephrine, you need to go to an emergency room immediately. If anaphylaxis isn't treated right away, it can be fatal.
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My hubby, me, my sister and his friend all shared the same very good allergist. If someone experienced hives as a result of food/ medication allergy... when histamine was being released into the bloodstream instead of just making a stuffy nose... she always, ALWAYS Rxd an EpiPen and cautioned that it should be carried AT ALL TIMES.
There's an underlying purpose to the hives/anaphylaxis reaction: white blood cells are too big to slip through blood vessel walls, so how to get WBCs into the tissues where it can work, in addition to all those immunoglobulins and other immune components? The answer is to release chemicals that dilate blood vessels and loosen the junctions between blood vessel/capillary walls, which allow fluids and white blood cells to swarm the site of infection/injury.
Very hel
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Back from my walk and it did try to rain this morning when I went out. Got to the post and the library to return something. Not sure I like the new "Firestarter" movie. Mind I barely remember the first one with Drew Barrymore.
Ran into the lady that used to come in and help look after my mum twice today. *L* Stopped and talked to her for a few minutes.
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Off to mah jong in the morning for me.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Er... there's no guarantee that the next reaction will stay at the "hives" stage. Each exposure primes you for a worse reaction, which could very well be anaphylaxis.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Don't know. Histamine is produced by "mast cells" which are mostly in the boundary between the "outside world" and you: mucosa, nose, mouth, lungs, skin, and gut. But once histamine's in the bloodstream it can cause symptoms anywhere. So if your gut mast cells release histamine it can cause your skin to wheal and itch. Eventually various enzymes break down the histamine. I suppose by rubbing your skin you might cause histamine to latch onto your skin ( as opposed to somewhere else?) where it gets broken down.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
BTW... what are your thoughts on the hives all but disappearing the day after I just gave into the itch and made the hives rise up on almost every square inch of my body?
That happened both times I had it.
It could be a coincidence, but I was thinking that maybe I was "using up" the histamine supply by bringing all of that to the surface at once and maybe it would have lasted longer if I didn't do that?
Really... Both times I've had the problem, the hives were almost non-existant in the itchy days that followed after just giving in and giving every square inch of my skin a thorough scratch.
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Well then...
I guess I'm just going to have to take Amox one last time in the name of Science.
No holding back... Just straight up scratching my body like it's my full time job the second the hives set in this time.
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Anaphylaxis is what happens when your blood vessels become excessively leaky, and leak fluid into the surrounding tissues. It can cause your throat to swell so badly that you suffocate. Alternately, the sudden loss of blood volume can cause your heart to stutter and give up.Quote:
Anaphylaxis is a severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction. It can occur within seconds or minutes of exposure to something you're allergic to, such as peanuts or bee stings.
Anaphylaxis causes the immune system to release a flood of chemicals that can cause you to go into shock — blood pressure drops suddenly and the airways narrow, blocking breathing. Signs and symptoms include a rapid, weak pulse; a skin rash; and nausea and vomiting. Common triggers include certain foods, some medications, insect venom and latex.
Anaphylaxis requires an injection of epinephrine and a follow-up trip to an emergency room. If you don't have epinephrine, you need to go to an emergency room immediately. If anaphylaxis isn't treated right away, it can be fatal.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/anaphylaxis/symptoms-ca
uses/syc-20351468
My hubby, me, my sister and his friend all shared the same very good allergist. If someone experienced hives as a result of food/ medication allergy... when histamine was being released into the bloodstream instead of just making a stuffy nose... she always, ALWAYS Rxd an EpiPen and cautioned that it should be carried AT ALL TIMES.
There's an underlying purpose to the hives/anaphylaxis reaction: white blood cells are too big to slip through blood vessel walls, so how to get WBCs into the tissues where it can work, in addition to all those immunoglobulins and other immune components? The answer is to release chemicals that dilate blood vessels and loosen the junctions between blood vessel/capillary walls, which allow fluids and white blood cells to swarm t
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Just got back from my buddy's house. Like anything else, this is going to take a lot longer than planned. I told him we were going to regret not working on Saturday.
There was just so much STUFF down there. And it's a staircase with at least 15 steps to get the stuff out.
We've got one half of the two seater at my house now. The other half, the one seater and the fireplace furnace will come one day at a time while we work on this on my ride back home. They're all upstairs clogging up his living room right now.
I think after all the extra time that this job is going to take, it's going to be a bit lopsided in my friend's favor on the barter, but that's cool. I really enjoy painting and during the middle of winter it's nice to get out and be working on something. Really not a problem at all when I don't have to drive anywhere myself too.
I am getting EXTREMELY good at cutting things in. Better every time. And now my friend gets to benefit from it.
We got the first coat of one color up today after moving everything out that was going out, sanding all his patching down, dusting the walls and having dinner with his family.
He was so not motivated at first, but as soon as he came through with a roller while I was cutting in he was thrilled with how it looked and he really got a second wind. It looks so much better than the gross brown colors that were down there before.
It's a much more intricate job that I'm used to doing. So many spaces where it's drywall against wood, or drywall up to concrete, or wood up to concrete, or drywall up to dropped ceiling track, or concrete up to dropped ceiling track. And there's a few PVC pipes and electrical conduit to paint as well as doors that opened up to the elevated crawlspace.
I made him take pictures before we started and I told him at the end of the night he's going to love looking at those after we're done and he said he already was earlier in the night.
I'm hoping we can get it done by Friday night. But I don't know how he's going to wash that carpet before the pool table gets moved down there on Saturday. I'm going to suggest that he ask the guy who he's getting it from if he can get a little extension on that.
Good luck at mahjong tomorrow Brenda.
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So, what color did he decide to go with?
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Well, I managed to get first place at mah jong even though I couldn't go out at all. The only people who won today were people that I played with. I got first another lady got 2nd and the other lady got 3rd. Since there were only 8 of us playing this morning there was no booby prize.
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So, what color did he decide to go with?
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The same colors I used on my back porch and in my living room.
https://www.ppgpaints.com/color/color-families/neutrals/victorian-pewt
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And
https://www.ppgpaints.com/color/color-families/neutrals/elemental
Inside my house, that Victorian Pewter color spans the entire wall from my kitchen to the end of the livingroom, with the large opening near the center where the stairs to the basement and to the second floor meet. I have a slightly darker gray in the kitchen on the other three walls in there. I believe there's some green or aqua in it, but you'd never mistake it for either green or aqua. It's unmistakably gray. The name escapes me at the moment though.
He got off work late and my mechanic is still lying to me about getting my car fixed so I sat around all day waiting for either one of them to relieve me of my boredom but it didn't work out.
Tomorrow is another day. I don't know how my friend is going to shampoo the carpet with the pool table slabs on top of it though.
The cold weather is here for good now. It's going to be really fun moving three 200lb slabs when it's in the low 30's. At least we're going down 15 stairs when it gets there. Hopefully there's not a lot of stairs going up where we're getting it from.
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Well, I managed to get first place at mah jong even though I couldn't go out at all. The only people who won today were people that I played with. I got first another lady got 2nd and the other lady got 3rd. Since there were only 8 of us playing this morning there was no booby prize.
Sweet!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, what color did he decide to go with?
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The same colors I used on my back porch and in my living room.
https://www.ppgpaints.com/color/color-families/neutrals/victorian-pewt
er
And
https://www.ppgpaints.com/color/color-families/neutrals/elemental
Inside my house, that Victorian Pewter color spans the entire wall from my kitchen to the end of the livingroom, with the large opening near the center where the stairs to the basement and to the second floor meet. I have a slightly darker gray in the kitchen on the other three walls in there. I believe there's some green or aqua in it, but you'd never mistake it for either green or aqua. It's unmistakably gray. The name escapes me at the moment though.
He got off work late and my mechanic is still lying to me about getting my car fixed so I sat around all day waiting for either one of them to relieve me of my boredom but it didn't work out.
Tomorrow is another day. I don't know how my friend is going to shampoo the carpet with the pool table slabs on top of it though.
The cold weather is here for good now. It's going to be really fun moving three 200lb slabs when it's in the low 30's. At least we're going down 15 stairs when it gets there. Hopefully there's not a lot of stairs going up where we're getting it from.
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Well, I managed to get first place at mah jong even though I couldn't go out at all. The only people who won today were people that I played with. I got first another lady got 2nd and the other lady got 3rd. Since there were only 8 of us playing this morning there was no booby prize.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, I managed to get first place at mah jong even though I couldn't go out at all. The only people who won today were people that I played with. I got first another lady got 2nd and the other lady got 3rd. Since there were only 8 of us playing this morning there was no booby prize.
Sweet!
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It was a surprise but all the other scores were in the 2,000 point range. Mine was the highest at over 3,000 points. I had one decent hand that got me 5 doubles which meant my score for it was over 1,000 points.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Well, congrats!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, I managed to get first place at mah jong even though I couldn't go out at all. The only people who won today were people that I played with. I got first another lady got 2nd and the other lady got 3rd. Since there were only 8 of us playing this morning there was no booby prize.
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Thanks.
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My area got a major amount of rain last night along with a warm up and most of the snow around me is gone. Call for more rain tomorrow and into Saturday.
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Lady, I work for called at 8:30pm. I got the usual dithering on the phone. But at least I can get a couple of things done before work.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, I managed to get first place at mah jong even though I couldn't go out at all. The only people who won today were people that I played with. I got first another lady got 2nd and the other lady got 3rd. Since there were only 8 of us playing this morning there was no booby prize.
Sweet!
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It was a surprise but all the other scores were in the 2,000 point range. Mine was the highest at over 3,000 points. I had one decent hand that got me 5 doubles which meant my score for it was over 1,000 points.
Well that's got to be like the time I opened up a game of Upwords with my Grams with a 7 letter word, but way better because I've only played about 10 games of it and you only get a bonus 20 points for a 7 letter word.
I ended up losing that game because I got stuck with a Q, two K's and 4 vowels after getting rid of all the good letters I had, and because you don't start scoring big until you stack letters on top of other letters you end up being super penalized for a 7 letter word on the first move because it's only worth a total of 27 points!
I think I like Mahjong point rules better.
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Classy colors!
Thank you.
I helped my friend's dad with a painting job a few summers back and he used two grays and I loved it. The contrast between the two were so much more subtle though, and unless the light was shining in right you could hardly tell that there was an accent wall. The lighter color was darker than my light color and the darker color was way lighter than my dark color.
But what I really loved about the gray colors is how it makes the white trim pop.
I've gotten tons of compliments on that Victorian Pewter color. Surprisingly even by my dad who always complains that the colors I chose for upstairs were too dark.
We only got the first coat of the VP color up on Wednesday, but the way that it comes down the left side of the stairs and wraps around that wall to the accent wall and the soffit above it in the room is really cool. It also covers the wood frame around a white accordian door under the stairs at the end of that wall where the water heater is, and then up high wraps to the top of the next wall where the doors to the raised crawl space are. And at the end of the stairs where the soffit is, there's a large 4" PVC drain pipe that goes down along that far wall and out side of the wall that gets the same color and is going to look real cool with the light grey on the concrete wall behind it.
All of that used to be a real dark brown on top of a gross yellowish tan color on the concrete.
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Picture time.
I've got more coming, but for now I wanted to at least get that entryway table my neighbor threw in the trash a while back up here.
The before shots...
Lots of damage here. As you can see, candles of various colors were regularly used on top of this thing. Paint has chipped off in a lot of spots. Holes in the back of the unit actually had threaded nuts I had to remove with an allen wrench so I could fill them in with wood putty and sand them down before paint. I don't know what would have been attached in the rear that would have used them. They were pretty beefy. Perhaps a mirror of some kind?
This is what it looked like after primer. At first I was really concerned about the basketwoven netting for the top shelf and the ripple effect that happened after I really slopped it on and drove it in there, but that effect faded after it dried. It happened again to a lesser degree after I panted it, but it's gone now.
In between primer and paint I used about a half a tube of painter's caulk to fill in a lot of the gaps. I even used the caulk to simulate extra wraps in the binding material on the legs where there were huge gaps in between.
Looks like I didn't take any pictures from the side to show the gaps filled, particularly around the arches on both sides, both inside and out. But I think it's a fine addition to my living room, underneath the mirror I sanded down and painted a few summers back. Very low profile from the wall compared to the old table I had there that would collect a bunch of junk on it. It's already made me better at putting things away since the limited space up top means I can only use it for the things I need to be using it for now.
It really opens up the flow to the house now too. That old table stuck out about 2 1/2 feet, and when you came in the front door it blocked the flow to the stairs and the kitchen, forcing you to walk around it when you came in. Now it's a straight shot right past it.
To note, I actually decided to only put one coat of paint over it after primer and caulk. That wasn't me being lazy, although it did save about 4 1/2 hours of painting it with a brush a final time. (This takes a lot of time painting something so intricate and making sure there are no drip marks!!!!). But the reason I didn't is because instead of being solid bright high gloss white through and through you can see some differences in the color through the brush marks and it makes it look a little rustic, which I think is a better look for this piece.
I will be making two 12"x25" boards out of hardboard and painting them with the Victorian Pewter before putting some rubber feet on them to protect the surfaces.
By the by, on Picture 6 you can see parts of the Victorian Pewter wall next to one of the Elemental walls and how the colors contrast with each other. Don't mind any imperfections in the baseboard if you can notice any in the pics. I still have to do some repairs to hide the bad job they did installing it and I'm going to be cutting some of it off by the stairs to install casing around the staircase entrance before I put paint on the baseboard. (That's what I mean about being like 80 to 90% done with every room but nothing is 100% done yet!)
Oh... LOL...
You see that plug outlet in the center of the legs? That was the worst outlet in my house before I got to it! If you pushed a plug in it, it would sink about 1/2" in while you were pressing, and when you pulled a tight plug out out the whole damn thing wanted to come out of the wall, plate and all.
Some dummy put a hard pipe up from the basement for that outlet and there wasn't any stud around so they just let th
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Damn................
Just bringing up that outlet box made me think of something I could have done that would have been awesome but it would require wrecking one wall in my finished pantry.
There's no electric to the pantry (which is right behind the mirror), but I could have exposed the left wall of the pantry and gotten electric up from the outlet between the legs of the table and installed a small motion sensor light instead of using the cheap rechargeable one that I have to take out of the pantry and recharge every month or so.
Oh well.... Maybe down the road. I'm not going to be ruining any finished work until I get the rest of the house done. I've got enough on my plate right now!
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
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Well, I managed to get first place at mah jong even though I couldn't go out at all. The only people who won today were people that I played with. I got first another lady got 2nd and the other lady got 3rd. Since there were only 8 of us playing this morning there was no booby prize.
Sweet!
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It was a surprise but all the other scores were in the 2,000 point range. Mine was the highest at over 3,000 points. I had one decent hand that got me 5 doubles which meant my score for it was over 1,000 points.
Well that's got to be like the time I opened up a game of Upwords with my Grams with a 7 letter word, but way better because I've only played about 10 games of it and you only get a bonus 20 points for a 7 letter word.
I ended up losing that game because I got stuck with a Q, two K's and 4 vowels after getting rid of all the good letters I had, and because you don't start scoring big until you stack letters on top of other letters you end up being super penalized for a 7 letter word on the first move because it's only worth a total of 27 points!
I think I like Mahjong point rules better.
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Mah jong rules aren't too complicated what gets you is counting of your points. If you have 3 tiles that are all the same down where they can be seen and they are circles or characters of bamboos then they are worth 2 points. Anything that is a wind like that is worth 4 points. All flowers are 4 points and dragons if you have 3 of the same tile are worth 4 points. And various things like that. If you have nothing showing but manage to go out you get 100 bonus points. If you go out regular then it is 30 points. It's the doubles that can get confusing.
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Nice work on that table SIX. Looks really good.
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Out in a minute. Late start at work for me so that means I can look for something that I forgot about yesterday and stop and grab a sandwich as I don't know how long I will be at work. Don't have to be at the house till around 1pm.
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Mah jong rules aren't too complicated what gets you is counting of your points. If you have 3 tiles that are all the same down where they can be seen and they are circles or characters of bamboos then they are worth 2 points. Anything that is a wind like that is worth 4 points. All flowers are 4 points and dragons if you have 3 of the same tile are worth 4 points. And various things like that. If you have nothing showing but manage to go out you get 100 bonus points. If you go out regular then it is 30 points. It's the doubles that can get confusing.
Reading instructions or rules don't sink in for me, so I'm going to have to take your word for it. I'm good at learning by doing, and then only going back to the instructions or rules after I have a good idea about what I've gotten myself into.
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Nice work on that table SIX. Looks really good.
Thank you, Brenda.
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Picture Time - Part 2! :smile
This time it's my attached shed. Unfortunately, I'm not posting any pictures of the new door that my friend's dad's friend installed for me because... reasons. But the new door is sweet. It got me on a roll to finally do something with this dump.
My buddy came by one night with a 2nd bottle jack and we jacked up the whole structure just enough to get the wood rotten and ant damaged sill plates out to replace with green treated 2x4's.
Here's what that wood looked like once it came out. Wowzers...
And the new plates put in, toenailed together and shimmed up wherever they needed to be because of the uneven slab.
This was on the right side of the door when you were in the shed. It wasn't even doing anything anymore.
Now we've got some support with treated wood. Made those special cuts on the table saw, and it was so tight you needed a hammer to get them in place before I nailed everything in place. The other side wasn't as bad but it was all replaced too. All sill plates are now sturdy treated wood.
Time to fix that crack... I pulled about 40lbs worth of dirt, sand and rocks out of it before cleaning up the crack and the cement all around it with wire brushes on my drill.
45lbs worth of vinyl concrete patch later and it was filled up and smoothed out. I also hit any parts of the slab that had divots in it.
These three pics are what the room looked like after I got all the dust and cobwebs off of everything. I still had yet to pull down all the stray wires and remove any nails and screws. On the outer wall I also cut down a lot of the roofing nails they'd used to install the siding outside.
On the first one you can see where I added 6 boards between two studs up high on the left side because thats where I can mount a TV without having to worry about missing the studs now.
In the 2nd pic on the right bottom you can see where I added green 2x6 boards and sealed them in with watertite. After removing the crap insulation up top it turned out I had to put more 2x6 green boards up top to seal everything in, which you can see exposed in the 3rd pic.
And we're done.
Insulation on the wall next to the porch, and done in a way where every square inch is covered. It took a lot of time to cut out the inside of the bats to fit around the electrical so they all looked nice on the outside when it was finsed.
I used 4 1/2 gallons of primer and paint out there, just on the white for the walls and the ceilings.
The two shelves in the back got one coat of primer, 2 coats of paint on the sides and bottoms and 3 coats of paint on the top of the shelves. I was able to use paint that I'd bought on sale back in 2019 that I thought I was going to use in my livingroom but hadn't found any use for after I used different colors in the house.
The electric didn't get painted because that's all going to be torn out and done right. That's a job for next spring though.
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Wow, that's awesome work SIX!
Busy today, more later.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Mah jong rules aren't too complicated what gets you is counting of your points. If you have 3 tiles that are all the same down where they can be seen and they are circles or characters of bamboos then they are worth 2 points. Anything that is a wind like that is worth 4 points. All flowers are 4 points and dragons if you have 3 of the same tile are worth 4 points. And various things like that. If you have nothing showing but manage to go out you get 100 bonus points. If you go out regular then it is 30 points. It's the doubles that can get confusing.
Reading instructions or rules don't sink in for me, so I'm going to have to take your word for it. I'm good at learning by doing, and then only going back to the instructions or rules after I have a good idea about what I've gotten myself into.Quote:
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Nice work on that table SIX. Looks really good.
Thank you, Brenda.
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The lady who runs the mah jong group also teaches and she taught me how to play with the tiles. I still get confused with the counting. So no worries SIX.
You're welcome.
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Got back around 6pm. The lady that I work for her husband drove me back as it was dark and starting to rain.
It was dry when I left this morning.
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Just got back from my buddy's house. Worked until 1:00AM painting his basement after starting at 5:30.
Boy that's a bigger project than I had anticipated. We're already 2.5 gallons into it and he's got to buy 2 more tomorrow. Those concrete walls are just sucking up the paint, and cutting them in is a bear.
It looks fantastic though. And his daughter came to the door to show her dad something about a half hour before we wrapped up and said "oh my god". When she got the grand tour, she LOVED the Victorian Pewter. I just smiled and said "what did I tell ya bud?"
We're probably going to start around 11:00AM tomorrow and I'll work until 1:30AM again if we need to to get it done. I told him we're going to have that room painted and all the stuff moved off the carpet so he could clean it and I'm going to make sure it happens.
If he can get it in his vehicle, I'm going to be getting a fridge that is only one year old now too. It was his wife's father's who just recently passed away. Man I hope it fits and he can get it here. I think mine was made when I was in high school.
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Laundry day for me then a soggy walk. Got rain.
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You're right, SIX, that table is a PERFECT fit. And it looks so classy the way you fixed it up. I love it!
I'm impressed with your repair work on the shed. The sill plate? Eewww. Good thing you replaced it. And how in hell does someone put in studs that don't even reach all the way to the sill plate?? Great job on filling in that gap. Good measurement there!
And the conduit looks so professional.
Crack repair and patch looks great too! The only thing that would make it complete would be a no-slip epoxy floor coating But that's so $$$ it probably wouldn't be worth it for your intended use.
So, what ARE you planning to do with the space? You posted something about hanging a TV on the wall? Entertainment area?
I DO hope you get that frig, SIX!
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There was a Christmas party put on by dear daughter's exercise program. Bc of Covid lockdowns and them my cancer odyssey and then hubby's surgery dear daughter has been shouldering household chores and, stressed out, and not having any fun. Poor kid
She wasn't too enthusiastic about going but I pushed her, and myself, a little and she wound up having fun.
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Glad your daughter and you had fun at her Christmas party.
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Laundry done and my walk was dry though it was trying to rain on my way home. Having a sit down now.
My brain for ear worms digs up old stuff. Like the chorus to "Alexander's Ragtime Band"!.
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You're right, SIX, that table is a PERFECT fit. And it looks so classy the way you fixed it up. I love it!
Thanks!
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I'm impressed with your repair work on the shed. The sill plate? Eewww. Good thing you replaced it. And how in hell does someone put in studs that don't even reach all the way to the sill plate?? Great job on filling in that gap. Good measurement there!
Well... at one point I believe that it did reach the sill plate. There's been obvious evidence that somebody "repaired" that nightmare at least once before my friend and I got to it and did it right. That broken slab and the shed that's on it I believe are the source of the structural problems to the main house, as well as all the problems that we started fixing in the porch back in late summer of 2019. Now I sit and wait to see if anything gets worse. It doesn't appear to be anymore though. If that concrete repair patch cracks though I'll know something is up pretty quick.
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And the conduit looks so professional.
If you meant on the left side, thanks! Yeah... had to do a ton of work on the electric in the porch, and the stuff on that wall was done from inside the shed since there was paneling up between the two and I didn't take that down before putting the drywall up.
All of the electric on that wall used to be up 3.5 feet for some odd reason, and the light switch to the ceiling fan was all the way on that wall. I ended up moving that switch to right inside my new porch door where it belongs, and I also put 8 outlets around the room at the correct height. More than I'd ever need out there, but there's not a single place you could ever want to plug something in there that you'd need an extension cord. And that outlet that's high in the middle is so you can plug in a TV without having a cord going to the floor outlets. I also added an outlet outside in the front and the back of the porch which is protected by a GFCI outlet inside the room.
Before I started the electric, there wasn't any outlets at all on the front or back of the porch, and there were only the 6 or so outlets that were as high as that dumb light switch for the ceiling fan/light that you had to walk across the room to turn on after you got inside the door.
If you mean on the right side, that's the garbage I'm going to be taking out next year and doing right!
I just ran out of warm weather before I could get to that is all, and that's why I didn't paint it. There's actually a missing panel in the ceiling that they removed to get the electric down there. I thought I'd have to buy a new one to replace it when I get the electric right, but it turned out that it was actually one of the scattered boards they had in the porch attic to walk on to make sure your foot didn't go through the roof. It's got some reminants of racoon poop on it and who knows what else, but once I get the electric done right I'm going to get that on the horses outside, bleach it down and then sand it and paint it so I can have a full ceiling in there.
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Crack repair and patch looks great too! The only thing that would make it complete would be a no-slip epoxy floor coating But that's so $$$ it probably wouldn't be worth it for your intended use.
I just may do something like that down the road. Not a bad idea to learn another skill. That's one of the things I'm putting on the backburner though until I know I've solved all of my big issues first. That's also why I took such care to put that insulation in the way I did so it looks nice up there without any drywall or paneling for now too... I still want the shed to look nice until I'm confident I'm not going to be putting up a finished wall on that side only to have to take it back down to work on something.
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I told my bud yesterday that I'd stay as late as it took and we'd have his basement finished and we'd move everything he was keeping down there off the carpet so he could wash it before we get the pool table down there.
And I wasn't lying.
Not only did we get it all done, but we were done by 10:00PM, when I thought I might need to stay until 1 or 2AM again.
His wife is so impressed. "Oh my god! It looks like professional work!".
Yup. This wasn't my first rodeo.
Got the two seater leather recliner and the fireplace TV stand here now, and the one seater is coming next week with that possible brand new fridge if he can fit it in his vehicle when he goes there next week.
He's already trying to think of things to trade, because his daughter wants her room repainted and he wants his front porch repainted too.
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There was a Christmas party put on by dear daughter's exercise program. Bc of Covid lockdowns and them my cancer odyssey and then hubby's surgery dear daughter has been shouldering household chores and, stressed out, and not having any fun. Poor kid
She wasn't too enthusiastic about going but I pushed her, and myself, a little and she wound up having fun.
Glad the fam was able to finally unwind a little.
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Ear worm/stuck song of the day...
Ballroom Blitz
I've seen Wayne's World so much that I probably heard that song as much as I've heard Stairway.
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