What did you do today?

[Nick]

Try WD 40 Z . I take a lot of different glues off floors in seconds with it ..

 

[highup]

Try WD 40 Z . I take a lot of different glues off floors in seconds with it ..

Alcohol works wonders on some things but doesn't do much on others. It can harm finishes on some cabinets so you gots to be careful. Don't spill it all over if ya have any pilot lights.
If alcohol doesn't solve the issue at hand..... it has medicinal effects too and maybe you won't care about the sticky problem so much.

 

[zannej]

Try WD 40 Z . I take a lot of different glues off floors in seconds with it ..

Alcohol works wonders on some things but doesn't do much on others. It can harm finishes on some cabinets so you gots to be careful. Don't spill it all over if ya have any pilot lights.
If alcohol doesn't solve the issue at hand..... it has medicinal effects too and maybe you won't care about the sticky problem so much.

LOL!
I managed to get all the sticky stuff up because of the peanutbutter. Unless you're talking about the latex paint. It's dried on very firmly now. My brother shoved the ladder and made the closed paint bucket fall-- landed on it's side, lid came off, paint flew everywhere. He kicked things around and shouted for awhile and then went back to his room without telling me or even trying to clean it up. I came in 10 minutes later to find the paint and did my best to clean it up, but was unable to get a lot of it before it dried. Tried scrapers and such. I'm looking for some pet-safe paint stripper. Although, quite frankly that old parquet floor is ruined anyway so maybe I shouldn't bother. I can at least try the alcohol on the oak cabinets to get off the small splotches I wasn't able to get off before. But right now, making it so the kitchen is usable is more of a priority. Need to clean inside cabinets, figure out where to put stuff after it's washed and dried, etc. I think that is one of my biggest challenges. I don't know where to put things.

My brother (who said hew as going to get home at 3pm) didn't come home until after 8pm and then my friend's girlfriend called asking me to take her to the hospital (it was nothing major but she needed a note to not go to work tomorrow bc it's not safe for her to be around food prep when she's potentially contagious and was running a high temp-- but not quite fever). Her boyfriend was at work and was going to meet us at the hospital but he got sick from something he ate and had to stay in the bathroom at home. So, I was with her for a few hours, got her some medicine, bought her food, and took her home. I had just been about to go to bed when she called-- ok, I actually was in bed trying to go to sleep, LOL. While I was gone my brother burned 10 of the 33 gallon trash bags I'd filled, but he didn't do any cleaning. Left some spilled trash on the kitchen floor for me to deal with. I'm going to tackle that after a nap and then try to figure out what to do next.

 

[Jon]

Well today we are getting on this ship for 16 days to cruise from Auckland NZ up around the Pacific Islands and back
Its only a little ship with 600 passengers unlike those great big ships which look like sheep carriers with a few thousand passengers
Hope the weather improves as the Auckland Harbour is one of the best in the world
Watch the time laspe video about 5pm NZ time and I will be there waving to you all

http://www.takeabreak.co.nz/webcams/61/auckland_queens_wharf_webcam

Here is another web came from the North Shore where I live showing out ship with Auckland City in the back ground

http://www.tourism.net.nz/listing/n.../region/auckland/visitor-information/web-cams

Its a tough life eh?

 

[highup]

Well today we are getting on this ship for 16 days to cruise from Auckland NZ up around the Pacific Islands and back
Its only a little ship with 600 passengers unlike those great big ships which look like sheep carriers with a few thousand passengers
Hope the weather improves as the Auckland Harbour is one of the best in the world
Watch the time laspe video about 5pm NZ time and I will be there waving to you all

http://www.takeabreak.co.nz/webcams/61/auckland_queens_wharf_webcam

Here is another web came from the North Shore where I live showing out ship with Auckland City in the back ground

http://www.tourism.net.nz/listing/n.../region/auckland/visitor-information/web-cams

Its a tough life eh?

Jon............. I had no idea why you feel the need to escape your little community so often.

Auckland is the largest metropolitan area in New Zealand, with a population of over a million in the greater urban area.

Now I know.

 

[highup]

My grades were finally posted ....A in English 102, B in Art Appreciation

I wish I had your brains and motivation, Rusty. Nice work. My brain is non functional unless I'm trying to figure out how to build stuff. Hand's on for me doesn't include using a pen to spell correctly.

 

[zannej]

Well today we are getting on this ship for 16 days to cruise from Auckland NZ up around the Pacific Islands and back
Its only a little ship with 600 passengers unlike those great big ships which look like sheep carriers with a few thousand passengers
Hope the weather improves as the Auckland Harbour is one of the best in the world
Watch the time laspe video about 5pm NZ time and I will be there waving to you all

http://www.takeabreak.co.nz/webcams/61/auckland_queens_wharf_webcam

Here is another web came from the North Shore where I live showing out ship with Auckland City in the back ground

http://www.tourism.net.nz/listing/n.../region/auckland/visitor-information/web-cams

Its a tough life eh?

I hope you have a fun and safe trip!

 

[zannej]

I've been trying to power through some cleaning. My old parquet floor is in bad shape. I'm debating whether it is worth mopping it or if I should just leave it as is until I replace it. I mean, I'll sweep it up and such, but it has some gunk that doesn't want to come off, latex paint spill, water damage, etc. I have a hardwood cleaner that I could mop it with-- but I loaned my mop to a friend and will have to go get it back. I'm trying to focus on picking stuff up and cleaning countertops. I have a small area of floor I still need to pick up and put stuff away (we sort of dump groceries and stuff we get from the store right inside the kitchen doors- by "we" I mean mostly my brother bc I try to put stuff in the laundry basket I set out as a catch-all). Found some old stuff in jars-- pickled peppers or something. Not sure. The lids are kind of rusty and I'm waiting for my mother to wake up to ask her if she should toss them or dump them and keep the jars. I haven't even touched the front room yet. My brother promised he'd work on it, but, again, doubtful he'll keep that promise.

I now have everything but the lag bolts for my automatic gate system. My brother brought home the packages with the battery and box around 5am (which is when he finally came home-- so he's probably going to sleep all day and refuse to clean). Just need to figure out if the posts can be stabilized or if I have to replace them. My sister is coming in tomorrow so I might not be able to work on the gate thing until February (unless I work on it while she's here before I drive her back to Albuquerque).

The guy that is supposed to help me with the gate hasn't been coming out bc his girlfriend was in the ICU for diabetic ketoacidosis. She just got out of the hospital yesterday and he was supposed to come over today but it rained hard last night so I don't expect him to show up. He said he might come tomorrow, but we'll see.

Highup, at least you know how to build stuff. There are people who are book smart who can't do practical things and then there are people who can do practical things who aren't good at memorizing stuff from books and taking standardized tests.

I'm about to head once more into the breach to start on the cleaning again. Wish me luck!

 

[havasu]

I bought mama a new car last night.

 

[Nick]

I've been trying to power through some cleaning. My old parquet floor is in bad shape. I'm debating whether it is worth mopping it or if I should just leave it as is until I replace it. I mean, I'll sweep it up and such, but it has some gunk that doesn't want to come off, latex paint spill, water damage, etc. I have a hardwood cleaner that I could mop it with-- but I loaned my mop to a friend and will have to go get it back. I'm trying to focus on picking stuff up and cleaning countertops. I have a small area of floor I still need to pick up and put stuff away (we sort of dump groceries and stuff we get from the store right inside the kitchen doors- by "we" I mean mostly my brother bc I try to put stuff in the laundry basket I set out as a catch-all). Found some old stuff in jars-- pickled peppers or something. Not sure. The lids are kind of rusty and I'm waiting for my mother to wake up to ask her if she should toss them or dump them and keep the jars. I haven't even touched the front room yet. My brother promised he'd work on it, but, again, doubtful he'll keep that promise.

I now have everything but the lag bolts for my automatic gate system. My brother brought home the packages with the battery and box around 5am (which is when he finally came home-- so he's probably going to sleep all day and refuse to clean). Just need to figure out if the posts can be stabilized or if I have to replace them. My sister is coming in tomorrow so I might not be able to work on the gate thing until February (unless I work on it while she's here before I drive her back to Albuquerque).

The guy that is supposed to help me with the gate hasn't been coming out bc his girlfriend was in the ICU for diabetic ketoacidosis. She just got out of the hospital yesterday and he was supposed to come over today but it rained hard last night so I don't expect him to show up. He said he might come tomorrow, but we'll see.

Highup, at least you know how to build stuff. There are people who are book smart who can't do practical things and then there are people who can do practical things who aren't good at memorizing stuff from books and taking standardized tests.

I'm about to head once more into the breach to start on the cleaning again. Wish me luck!

NO MOP ! Replace the water boards , and screen and coat the floor ..

 

[Nick]

NO MOP ! Replace the water boards , and screen and coat the floor ..

She needs to start taking Potassium ..

 

[zannej]

NO MOP ! Replace the water boards , and screen and coat the floor ..

It's parquet flooring-- not boards. It's little strips of wood tacked together to form squares.

Before I saw the response, I tried mopping with a hardwood cleaner. Didn't really work so I stopped and just wiped it dry. I think at one point it might have been glued down to the plywood underneath, but some of it has come up.

Meanwhile, I was cleaning in the kitchen when one of my friends poked his head in and told me to come look in the front room. He and another friend had been working on cleaning it up. I said "Hold on, I'm not wearing pants" and went to put some pants on and went to see. It looks so much better. The kittens were having fun exploring the more open space. We hauled a bunch of stuff down to the workshop and they put up 3 of the new shop lights. There were probably 12 of the old shop lights in there to get decent lighting and just 2 of the new LEDs lit up the whole workshop. 4th one didn't go up bc the power isn't working to some of the outlets. Not sure if it's the wires or the outlets themselves. Tomorrow they plan to bring testers to see if they can troubleshoot. I'll have to wash and change the bedding bc the kittens used the bed as a litterbox-- fortunately I put a waterproof mattress pad on underneath the bedding (and on top of the electric heating mattress pad).

Tomorrow my friends will come back and help me put together the new entertainment center table, haul the old huge TV outside, and set up the new 4k TV. They will also finish cleaning the front room and help with the living room more. I know they would have done it for free but I also know they need money so I'm paying them for it. It's worth it too-- they were picking up cat crap with their bare hands.

 

[Nick]

You can sand that . You just have to sand it on a 45

 

[Nick]

She needs to start taking Potassium ..

Magnesium oxide is also good to take ..400mg one a day .. I'm Diabetic , and that is the two supplements my Dr put me on ..

 

[Floorist]

Xanax works good too.

 

[zannej]

I think she's on antidepressants and anti-anxiety meds. She takes Gabapentin since she has diabetic polyneuropathy. What happened was she doesn't have insurance and she ran out of her meds and hadn't been taking them for awhile. Her boyfriend came home to find unresponsive and struggling to breathe. That ICU bill is going to suck bigtime.

My brother almost missed his doctor's appointment. He was in a deep heavy sleep-- slept through one of my friends knocking down the wall panels on the old bathroom. About 14 minutes before my brother's appointment I went and woke him up and offered to drive him since he seemed too groggy. I just ate and am letting my stomach settle and then I'll work on cleaning some more.

I don't know if that floor is worth sanding. I'll take some pics and post them later-- it really is a mess.

 

[Nick]

You be surprised what a sanding will do for a floor ..

Post the photos . You can't just stop taking certain meds it can cause Death . Have her ask her Dr if he has any samples to give her .. They all get them from the drug pushers from the company they work for ..

 

[highup]

Magnesium oxide is also good to take ..400mg one a day .. I'm Diabetic , and that is the two supplements my Dr put me on ..

Xanax works good too.

I'm guessing Pabst Blue Ribbon doesn't help in this situation.

 

[Floorist]

Bought for $15 off a Facebook site. That is an Estwing framing hammer and a real Crescent wrench, not a cheapie.

 

[highup]

I still use my 1987 Estwing daily. I like tools that last a lifetime.