zannej you certainly have an interesting life
I agree with Nick about the movie rights
I agree with Nick about the movie rights
What did you do today?
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My dad had a more interesting life. Sadly, a lot of his memoirs got wiped in a hard drive failure so he had to start over and didn't get as far. I still have some of them backed up on multiple hard drives. I need to back them up on more. My uncle was disappointed that he didn't get further along.
I mostly played tech support for my mother today. She has a degree in computer science but doesn't know how to "save image as" or how to upload pictures-- even when the instructions were as simple as "drag photo to this box". LOL. Although, to be fair, when she got her degree they were still literally using punch cards. I feel for her. I hated COBOL when it was typed-- but in punch cards it must have really sucked.
Found a whole compress install kit on Amazon for about $180 for my brother-- if he will just do something and order it or figure out if it needs to be replaced.
My friend didn't get the power turned on yet but it's being turned on tomorrow so I'm going over to help clean it up. There will be vacuuming and sweeping. and spraying stuff with bleach. LOL.
I mostly played tech support for my mother today. She has a degree in computer science but doesn't know how to "save image as" or how to upload pictures-- even when the instructions were as simple as "drag photo to this box". LOL. Although, to be fair, when she got her degree they were still literally using punch cards. I feel for her. I hated COBOL when it was typed-- but in punch cards it must have really sucked.
Found a whole compress install kit on Amazon for about $180 for my brother-- if he will just do something and order it or figure out if it needs to be replaced.
My friend didn't get the power turned on yet but it's being turned on tomorrow so I'm going over to help clean it up. There will be vacuuming and sweeping. and spraying stuff with bleach. LOL.
In the continuing saga of small town drama:
It turns out my friend had a restraining order against his father because of the violent attack earlier but as soon as my friend's grandmother got back, she bailed her son out and brought him back home-- to the same house my friend is staying at-- so the restraining order has been violated, but they talked my friend in to not reporting it so long as his father stayed off drugs and behaved. That lasted about a week or so. We think his father broke in to the "new" house he's moving in to and stole some stuff that belonged to the former tenant (since she hasn't removed her stuff yet even though she left 3 months ago). Anyway, he's back on drugs and was being verbally abusive to the grandmother (calling her a whore and other things). Mind you, this is an unemployed guy in his late 40s who does nothing but steal from his parents, eat their food, mow the lawn, and steal gas out of other people's vehicles. He has stolen money, stolen their checks, robbed their safe, stolen and sold their medicine-- and the parents let him get away with it. He's gone to rehab about 20 times and it never sticks (probably because there are never serious consequences because his parents enable him). Yet the grandmother is telling my friend's 20-year-old girlfriend that she's "trash". The kid is employed and helps my friend pay the bills and cleans up his father's messes. Anyhoo, crackhead started threatening my friend again, so my friend made a quick call to the cops to tell them he was violating the restraining order and threatening him. So they made him leave but said they weren't going to put him back in jail for the first offense. If he does it again, my friend is going to call his cousin at the sheriff's department who would love to arrest the jerk.
Anyway, the floor in the "new" house's kitchen is destroyed-- as is the rest of the kitchen. Most of the nasty carpet got pulled out-- except for one room where the former tenant hasn't removed her furniture and is coming to get it later.
The main room has plywood floor so it's not too bad. Back bedroom has OSB on top of plywood. Not sure what is under the filthy carpet of bedroom #1. We scrubbed all of the walls with bleach and got the place cleaned up better. No running water is on yet though. Today I took my friend to check out carpet remnants to replace the stuff that was pulled out. He's thinking of moving the kitchen in to the main room and converting the old kitchen to a pantry (it is smaller than the bathroom). But he's thinking of putting carpet down in the new kitchen area-- which I think is a bad idea. But he can't find large enough vinyl sheets in his price range (It's about 13' 3"x12' area). Found some 13x12 carpet remnants for $66 each but he doesn't get his paycheck 'til next Friday. Hopefully they will still be there or maybe there will be something better next week.
It turns out my friend had a restraining order against his father because of the violent attack earlier but as soon as my friend's grandmother got back, she bailed her son out and brought him back home-- to the same house my friend is staying at-- so the restraining order has been violated, but they talked my friend in to not reporting it so long as his father stayed off drugs and behaved. That lasted about a week or so. We think his father broke in to the "new" house he's moving in to and stole some stuff that belonged to the former tenant (since she hasn't removed her stuff yet even though she left 3 months ago). Anyway, he's back on drugs and was being verbally abusive to the grandmother (calling her a whore and other things). Mind you, this is an unemployed guy in his late 40s who does nothing but steal from his parents, eat their food, mow the lawn, and steal gas out of other people's vehicles. He has stolen money, stolen their checks, robbed their safe, stolen and sold their medicine-- and the parents let him get away with it. He's gone to rehab about 20 times and it never sticks (probably because there are never serious consequences because his parents enable him). Yet the grandmother is telling my friend's 20-year-old girlfriend that she's "trash". The kid is employed and helps my friend pay the bills and cleans up his father's messes. Anyhoo, crackhead started threatening my friend again, so my friend made a quick call to the cops to tell them he was violating the restraining order and threatening him. So they made him leave but said they weren't going to put him back in jail for the first offense. If he does it again, my friend is going to call his cousin at the sheriff's department who would love to arrest the jerk.
Anyway, the floor in the "new" house's kitchen is destroyed-- as is the rest of the kitchen. Most of the nasty carpet got pulled out-- except for one room where the former tenant hasn't removed her furniture and is coming to get it later.
The main room has plywood floor so it's not too bad. Back bedroom has OSB on top of plywood. Not sure what is under the filthy carpet of bedroom #1. We scrubbed all of the walls with bleach and got the place cleaned up better. No running water is on yet though. Today I took my friend to check out carpet remnants to replace the stuff that was pulled out. He's thinking of moving the kitchen in to the main room and converting the old kitchen to a pantry (it is smaller than the bathroom). But he's thinking of putting carpet down in the new kitchen area-- which I think is a bad idea. But he can't find large enough vinyl sheets in his price range (It's about 13' 3"x12' area). Found some 13x12 carpet remnants for $66 each but he doesn't get his paycheck 'til next Friday. Hopefully they will still be there or maybe there will be something better next week.
I installed some outdoor carpet along a 4 foot by 19 foot entry to a house today. That lightweight unitary latex backed corduroy lookin stuff. Min adhesive amount from what I read on the Henry outdoor adhesive can said 8 yds per gallon was the absolute minimum. I had 8.8 yards and it took one gallon and one quart.
Using a 1/8" carbide bur in my Dremel tool, I re-notched a 3/32 V-notch into the correct U-notch to match the specs on the can........... nobody stocks a stupid U-notch trowel. Who ever dremped up a U-notch trowel? I figure some brainiac discovered a V-notch doesn't allow glue to adhere to backings.
Using a 1/8" carbide bur in my Dremel tool, I re-notched a 3/32 V-notch into the correct U-notch to match the specs on the can........... nobody stocks a stupid U-notch trowel. Who ever dremped up a U-notch trowel? I figure some brainiac discovered a V-notch doesn't allow glue to adhere to backings.
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I installed some outdoor carpet along a 4 foot by 19 foot entry to a house today. That lightweight unitary latex backed corduroy lookin stuff. Min adhesive amount from what I read on the Henry outdoor adhesive can said 8 yds per gallon was the absolute minimum. I had 8.8 yards and it took one gallon and one quart.
Using a 1/8" carbide bur in my Dremel tool, I re-notched a 3/32 V-notch into the correct U-notch to match the specs on the can........... nobody stocks a stupid U-notch trowel. Who ever dremped up a U-notch trowel? I figure some brainiac discovered a V-notch doesn't allow glue to adhere to backings.
Figure it this way Hi. A trowel is a measuring tool. A U-notch trowel puts down more glue than a V-notch and a square notch put down more yet at equal depths and width spacings.
Daris
If a trowel was made in a V notch and another in a U notch, they can both be designed to put on the same amount of adhesive.
Re thinking, I figure maybe a U notch might flash off a tad more slowly so maybe that's a good thing for an outdoor carpet if you are using smaller trowel notches. That would be a benefit if the wind was blowing (it was) or the sun was shining on the adhesive. You don't want it skinning over before you get to the other end.
It can take some practice to use one right.
The thing I used to enjoy when I was on wages was I seemed to get the guys of the street to teach them to lay lino was watching them try to spread glue with a trowel. It looks easy but lots of fun watching a guy try to get that sweeping motion with no bald spots or big lumps left everywhere which would cause lumps under the vinyl
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Nick
In Remembrance
We use to like to put a new guy on the 12" drum sander with a heavy paper .
Was like pulling a illegal back across the boarder .
Was like pulling a illegal back across the boarder .
As I was learning the trade, the newbie (me) issue was swinging the trowel with the correct left hook to put a gallon of extra glue back into the pail.
................The song "Hello Walls" comes to mind
After 50 odd years I still pour too much glue onto the floor and have to pick what is left. You would think I would have learned to pour out the correct amount by now. Maybe its time to retire before I get the nack?
Installed a new modem. Zipping through pages now.
Nick
In Remembrance
How fast is it Floorest ? I bought a 650 mb last year for $100.00 It's paid for itself now , And i save $10.00 a modem using their slow one .
I have no idea how fast it is.
Nick
In Remembrance
It will tell you on the box, or the modem , or you can google it .
They have em faster then the one i have , But what's the use if they don't open up the bandwidth ?
They have em faster then the one i have , But what's the use if they don't open up the bandwidth ?
Mom just got a wireless repeater to boost signal to the back of the house. Instructions came in tiny print that I literally could not read because I apparently need reading glasses now. I used a pair of her glasses briefly but they gave me a headache. Ended up just googling the device and finding a Youtube tutorial. So now she gets signal in her room and can load Dr. Pimplepopper videos on her tablet.
Been helping my friend fix up the house. Day 2 of the cleanup, his girlfriend found a bag of heroin and a syringe in the dresser the former tenant left behind. She had to wrap it up while wearing gloves and throw it in the trash (cops around here would arrest someone for possession if they had been called to dispose of it). Discovered that the floor joists under bathroom were rotted and another friend came over to help reinforce stuff. Used regular lumber instead of pressure treated, but he only plans to stay in the place until he can save up enough $ to get his burned house fixed up.
This is the pic he took of the joists after he pulled up the floor:
This is what his helper did to reinforce things (although he mistakenly put things 16" on center instead of 24" so the edges of the plywood didn't sit on joists).
Plywood in place and toilet set in-- they really needed to be able to use the toilet.
I'm trying to convince him to move the lav away from that exterior wall to the opposite wall and to move the shower across as well because the ceiling slopes down too low where the old shower was. There were some nice large grab bars that he's going to give me-- although he's keeping the L-shaped one.
Been helping my friend fix up the house. Day 2 of the cleanup, his girlfriend found a bag of heroin and a syringe in the dresser the former tenant left behind. She had to wrap it up while wearing gloves and throw it in the trash (cops around here would arrest someone for possession if they had been called to dispose of it). Discovered that the floor joists under bathroom were rotted and another friend came over to help reinforce stuff. Used regular lumber instead of pressure treated, but he only plans to stay in the place until he can save up enough $ to get his burned house fixed up.
This is the pic he took of the joists after he pulled up the floor:
This is what his helper did to reinforce things (although he mistakenly put things 16" on center instead of 24" so the edges of the plywood didn't sit on joists).
Plywood in place and toilet set in-- they really needed to be able to use the toilet.
I'm trying to convince him to move the lav away from that exterior wall to the opposite wall and to move the shower across as well because the ceiling slopes down too low where the old shower was. There were some nice large grab bars that he's going to give me-- although he's keeping the L-shaped one.
What's a mb?
16 on center works at 48" but you need to start measuring from the wall correctly so you center a joist at 4 feet out from the wall. From there on 16 inches works.
Nick
In Remembrance
3 x 16 = 48 where i live ..
