No rocket here Tom but a really bright rainbow a half hour ago. I don't see those in the early hours very often.
.... rather see a rocket launch if I had the choice.
.... rather see a rocket launch if I had the choice.
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Be interesting to see the final numbers (soon I hope)
It's a lot easier to count the people that died than people who are infected since some don't even know they have it. The more tests that get done, the lower the death percentage.
I read the numbers could go as high as 250,000. Doubt it gets remotely close to that.
Tom Picciani
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I would like to see the number who are have been healed and the number hospitalized at the moment. Would give us an idea of how full the hospitals are.
40 % of cases in the US are in New York. The states not the CDC tracks the numbers, so you'd have to go to each states website to see if they have that info. I suppose there may be an estimate out there somewhere.
I wish they knew how many were actually infected. Some doctors say 80% of the infected won't seek treatment. And how many die from something else while they have the virus that gets attributed to the virus.
Heard today, if I understood it correctly that the virus may indeed slow and disappear........ Only to stay barely enough alive and return again in the Fall. The next couple weeks should tell a lot.
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I don't think there is a treatment, so the option is stay home and recover there... only of it gets serious enough do you need hospital care.
Be nice to have a few extra billion dollars so you could say $$$ thanks to those on the front lines. Be scary being a doctor or nurse the days.
We just got a stay at home order. Does not change much. The governor gave an executive order keeping CCWs from expiring. Also driver licenses and state tags will not expire.
Tom Picciani
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They closed the liquor stores in Pa. but left beer distributors open. People jam liquor stores in times of crisis. I guess that’s their reasoning. Paper products are coming back in stock. Got 12 rolls of TP and 6 rolls of paper towels. And I got white bread. The advantages of shopping on Thursday. Blue skies here finally. Gray and rainy doesn’t really help the spirits when you’re cooped up. Been getting HelloFresh meals for the last month. I would never bother to make these meals if I had to go buy so many ingredients. But damn are these recipes delicious! I’m eating roasted carrots, poblanos, parsnips, and an occasional salad. That’s not me! Anyway, remember, the virus wins by making you think you are alone. Nobody is alone if you’re on a forum. Keep the conversation going. Newtons law: a body in motion tends to remain in motion. Life is like that!
stay safe everyone.
stay safe everyone.
797 cases here today
Still doing fairly well
Still doing fairly well
Just saw a news report that my town is the "epicenter" for Covid-19 infections at federal detention centers. There have been more deaths at the local one & there are over 30 people still waiting for test results. Number of cases in the state went up over 2k since yesterday.
I'm not bored but I have 17-3/4 ceiling tiles from north to south and 11-1/2 ceiling tiles from east to west. Each tile (which looks like a pegboard) has 484 holes. I can't get up close enough to count the number of holes on the partial tiles.
My uncle (my late father's brother) called to check on us. He hadn't checked his e-mail yet and didn't see that I just e-mailed him. We have completely different religious and political views but I love him and he's got a great sense of humor. He's a bit of a social butterfly. He lives in a retirement community where they take care of him & his wife. He's involved in different social groups (including church). He's got his Funny Farm gardening group where he helps people in the community do their gardening and grows fruit & veggies for people. He's got his Navy Veterans group. And he's got his Master Gardeners group (he is registered in the state of VA as a master gardener-- not sure what that means, but I guess he can give people advice or something). He specializes in edible gardening & stuff that attracts butterflies. He loves butterflies. He gave me updates on my cousins. When this whole pandemic blows over I may need to go pay a visit to my cousin's ex-husband and put a boot up his behind. He's still harassing my cousin & making their kids miserable.
I'm planning to go to the store & post office tomorrow. Both my mother and brother have been nagging me to go to the post office but I only want to make 1 trip into town a week.
I'm not bored but I have 17-3/4 ceiling tiles from north to south and 11-1/2 ceiling tiles from east to west. Each tile (which looks like a pegboard) has 484 holes. I can't get up close enough to count the number of holes on the partial tiles.
My uncle (my late father's brother) called to check on us. He hadn't checked his e-mail yet and didn't see that I just e-mailed him. We have completely different religious and political views but I love him and he's got a great sense of humor. He's a bit of a social butterfly. He lives in a retirement community where they take care of him & his wife. He's involved in different social groups (including church). He's got his Funny Farm gardening group where he helps people in the community do their gardening and grows fruit & veggies for people. He's got his Navy Veterans group. And he's got his Master Gardeners group (he is registered in the state of VA as a master gardener-- not sure what that means, but I guess he can give people advice or something). He specializes in edible gardening & stuff that attracts butterflies. He loves butterflies. He gave me updates on my cousins. When this whole pandemic blows over I may need to go pay a visit to my cousin's ex-husband and put a boot up his behind. He's still harassing my cousin & making their kids miserable.
I'm planning to go to the store & post office tomorrow. Both my mother and brother have been nagging me to go to the post office but I only want to make 1 trip into town a week.
Never heard of those meals.
Sunny today and tomorrow, the a bit of rain for a couple of days....... and the maybe then cool weather will go up 5 to 8 degrees so it will become it's normal average. Morning lows for the past few weeks has been 34 to 37. Should be 40 to low 40s.
I went to Staples to buy some dividers. Walked by a pallet of toilet paper.
Never thought to look there.
Hope you bought some TP. May not be any next week.Never heard of those meals.
Sunny today and tomorrow, the a bit of rain for a couple of days....... and the maybe then cool weather will go up 5 to 8 degrees so it will become it's normal average. Morning lows for the past few weeks has been 34 to 37. Should be 40 to low 40s.
I went to Staples to buy some dividers. Walked by a pallet of toilet paper.
Never thought to look there.
I had trouble getting restful sleep last night. Kept having to shift positions to get comfortable and then allergies hit. I started sneezing & nose started running. I took some meds for it & tried to get back to sleep. Eyes started crudding over (particularly my right eye). Tried to sleep after that, still tossed & turned & woke up with my eyes drippy & cruddy. Nose is still stuffed up & eyes are still red & irritated. I had to sleep with a tissue under my right eye to catch the dripping & it's aggravating. Gonna have to buy more cough drops bc I'm on my last one. Will have to see what they have for sore throat in the store today. I'm going to wrap a scarf around my face so I won't be coughing/sneezing on people if that starts up again when I'm out. It will also help keep me from touching my face.
Gee Zan, my worst fear right now would be being in a store and having to cough or sneeze. I bet the store would be empty in 30 seconds. 
New high for me. $58 per sq yd to install vinyl in a bathroom.
It's new construction in the upper level of a new shop. Gonna be nice guest quarters.
The bathroom is small, less than 6 by 13. Floor is 1 1/4" plywood. They installed the plumbing after the fact, meaning they had to cut open the plywood to run the plumbing. Dead center in the room were two narrow strips of wobbly plywood sandwiched between two 24 inch pieces of plywood. They had cut three openings and had to sister on new 2 by 6's to reinstall the plywood. The new 2 bys we're obviously green lumber because they shrunk a lot and made a dip in the section they cut out. I wanted one nicely attached patch. Theirs was a wobbly hack job.
I ripped out the two narrow strips then set up my router to make the top side of 2x materials an even height. I straightened the plywood edges and made a rabbit joint in the 1 1/4" plywood and fit and glued in two layers of 3/4 inch to fill the void.
I re screwed all the other joints, sanded and filled the seams then covered it all with 3/8" plywood. The job was really all repairs and prep with a couple hours of patterning, cutting and gluing the vinyl...... So my rediculous $ per yard # isn't really honest.
Fun job. I have the bedroom carpet left to do. I'm installing wood transitions instead of metal.... we want it to look pretty, right?
It's new construction in the upper level of a new shop. Gonna be nice guest quarters.
The bathroom is small, less than 6 by 13. Floor is 1 1/4" plywood. They installed the plumbing after the fact, meaning they had to cut open the plywood to run the plumbing. Dead center in the room were two narrow strips of wobbly plywood sandwiched between two 24 inch pieces of plywood. They had cut three openings and had to sister on new 2 by 6's to reinstall the plywood. The new 2 bys we're obviously green lumber because they shrunk a lot and made a dip in the section they cut out. I wanted one nicely attached patch. Theirs was a wobbly hack job.
I ripped out the two narrow strips then set up my router to make the top side of 2x materials an even height. I straightened the plywood edges and made a rabbit joint in the 1 1/4" plywood and fit and glued in two layers of 3/4 inch to fill the void.
I re screwed all the other joints, sanded and filled the seams then covered it all with 3/8" plywood. The job was really all repairs and prep with a couple hours of patterning, cutting and gluing the vinyl...... So my rediculous $ per yard # isn't really honest.
Fun job. I have the bedroom carpet left to do. I'm installing wood transitions instead of metal.... we want it to look pretty, right?
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I felt a little bit better before going to the store, but just in case I put tissues against my face, wrapped my lower face/head in a thick scarf, washed my hands thoroughly, & headed to the post office. I started coughing in the post office but was coughing in to my elbow & one of the employees got mad. I wasn't anywhere near anyone or any object and my entire lower face was wrapped up but people are paranoid. They are so paranoid they are no longer passing stuff over the counter. The employee sniped at a woman who asked for some tape to seal her letter because she didn't want to lick the adhesive to seal it.
My packages were stuffed in to a larger postal box & the key was put in my box. One of the packages was stuck so I had to put everything down and then spend a few minutes prying it out. They put it in the very bottom box so I had to crouch down & it gave me some trouble. The door kept trying to swing shut on me, but I managed to get everything out and to the truck.
Went to Walmart to pick up some more medicine & food. There were a couple guys who chuckled about my scarf. I explained it was to keep me from touching my face. I mentioned I watched a video talking about safety measures and not to touch your face & that I touched my face 5 times while watching the video. The good thing was, I could still scratch my nose with my arm & there was protection from the scarf. The guys were from the woods out east of town & they were looking for allergy meds bc of the pollen. One of them helped me find the right eye drops. They told me that 19 people at the federal prison have tested positive for Covid-19 (in addition to the 4 people that died).
Walmart had some stupid system where they put yellow tape over the fronts of the posts in front of the sidewalk to force people to walk around to the sides & they had carts in the middle to separate people who were entering & people who were leaving. People often go in the exit door. But the thing is, there is a bay just inside where there is no separation & it's where the shopping carts are brought in. They didn't have that cordoned off so it was a bit pointless. The guys I talked to asked me what the point was. I told them it was just stupidity. They had employees (who weren't wearing masks or gloves) standing outside the store to direct people & to wipe down carts with disinfectant spray. They were all friendly though.
A bus full of elderly people was parked right at the front to let people out so I walked around it on the outside to avoid getting close to any of them in case I started coughing. I didn't cough very much though & my eyes are already feeling a little better. I forgot to get some things, but I'll wait until next week to go back.
Highup, is the plywood usually pre-cut for plumbing rough-ins in new construction?
I'm tempted to get some vinyl transitions instead of metal-- that way they will be waterproof, but I will have to see what sort of transitions I need. I want something soft to go from carpet to sheet vinyl in my mother's bathroom/bedroom doorway. Right now there is no transition & the sheet vinyl tucks under the carpet, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to get that to work. I'm afraid to pull up the carpet to try to put it over the new sheet vinyl when I install it. Same with my bathroom-- my carpet was actually cut too far back, but I want a soft transition that won't hurt bare feet to walk on & won't stub a toe on.
My packages were stuffed in to a larger postal box & the key was put in my box. One of the packages was stuck so I had to put everything down and then spend a few minutes prying it out. They put it in the very bottom box so I had to crouch down & it gave me some trouble. The door kept trying to swing shut on me, but I managed to get everything out and to the truck.
Went to Walmart to pick up some more medicine & food. There were a couple guys who chuckled about my scarf. I explained it was to keep me from touching my face. I mentioned I watched a video talking about safety measures and not to touch your face & that I touched my face 5 times while watching the video. The good thing was, I could still scratch my nose with my arm & there was protection from the scarf. The guys were from the woods out east of town & they were looking for allergy meds bc of the pollen. One of them helped me find the right eye drops. They told me that 19 people at the federal prison have tested positive for Covid-19 (in addition to the 4 people that died).
Walmart had some stupid system where they put yellow tape over the fronts of the posts in front of the sidewalk to force people to walk around to the sides & they had carts in the middle to separate people who were entering & people who were leaving. People often go in the exit door. But the thing is, there is a bay just inside where there is no separation & it's where the shopping carts are brought in. They didn't have that cordoned off so it was a bit pointless. The guys I talked to asked me what the point was. I told them it was just stupidity. They had employees (who weren't wearing masks or gloves) standing outside the store to direct people & to wipe down carts with disinfectant spray. They were all friendly though.
A bus full of elderly people was parked right at the front to let people out so I walked around it on the outside to avoid getting close to any of them in case I started coughing. I didn't cough very much though & my eyes are already feeling a little better. I forgot to get some things, but I'll wait until next week to go back.
Highup, is the plywood usually pre-cut for plumbing rough-ins in new construction?
I'm tempted to get some vinyl transitions instead of metal-- that way they will be waterproof, but I will have to see what sort of transitions I need. I want something soft to go from carpet to sheet vinyl in my mother's bathroom/bedroom doorway. Right now there is no transition & the sheet vinyl tucks under the carpet, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to get that to work. I'm afraid to pull up the carpet to try to put it over the new sheet vinyl when I install it. Same with my bathroom-- my carpet was actually cut too far back, but I want a soft transition that won't hurt bare feet to walk on & won't stub a toe on.
One thing about the post office, Zan. They can see hundreds of people per day. They are at risk like the people at the grocery store. I would be getting a bit edgy if I was in that much a public job.
If you aren't feeling well, it's best to stay at home. No need to worry people even if you know it's allergy related...... they don't.
If you aren't feeling well, it's best to stay at home. No need to worry people even if you know it's allergy related...... they don't.
Zan, the plywood is supposed to be in place after the plumbing, or on a case like this, installed from below before the sheetrock is installed.
Not sure why...... Maybe the bathroom was an afterthought?
Looks pretty nice now. Even tho the guest room won't be used often, I wanted it to be my typical bulletproof installation.
The guest room is heated as is the shop below....... It's got to be over 90 feet from the house. Customer is spending a pretty penny fixing up this new shop plus adding a 10 foot covered walkway as you walk past the 5 or 6 storage and shop sections of this neat looking building.
It is layed out like it was once 5 or 6 horse stalls at one time, each section is like a small garage, 20 feet deep by 15 feet wide. The floors are all concrete and no horsie smell, so I really don't know.
There are probably 6 guys and me working on the place right now. They are all doing exterior finish carpentry. They also have the roofing to install plus painting. Probably another week or so.
I'm going to finish the carpet tomorrow and be out of there. They might want me to install a room of carpet in their main house.... I told em it arrived, just not sure if they want me to do it yet.
Just a fabulous place and layout. Middle of town and you wouldn't even know it was there. Two lamas and an alpaca... a chicken that will hop in your truck, a few cows and a friend's children are in 4H, so they added fencing for a couple goats.
Not sure why...... Maybe the bathroom was an afterthought?
Looks pretty nice now. Even tho the guest room won't be used often, I wanted it to be my typical bulletproof installation.
The guest room is heated as is the shop below....... It's got to be over 90 feet from the house. Customer is spending a pretty penny fixing up this new shop plus adding a 10 foot covered walkway as you walk past the 5 or 6 storage and shop sections of this neat looking building.
It is layed out like it was once 5 or 6 horse stalls at one time, each section is like a small garage, 20 feet deep by 15 feet wide. The floors are all concrete and no horsie smell, so I really don't know.
There are probably 6 guys and me working on the place right now. They are all doing exterior finish carpentry. They also have the roofing to install plus painting. Probably another week or so.
I'm going to finish the carpet tomorrow and be out of there. They might want me to install a room of carpet in their main house.... I told em it arrived, just not sure if they want me to do it yet.
Just a fabulous place and layout. Middle of town and you wouldn't even know it was there. Two lamas and an alpaca... a chicken that will hop in your truck, a few cows and a friend's children are in 4H, so they added fencing for a couple goats.
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Tom Picciani
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I called in my carpenter friend who had a power hammer to chisel out the cinder block they had put in the hole in the basement, apparently to plug up the hole they were going to use to plumb the shower. I thought it as a sump pit but apparently not. Even with it having just rained, it was dry. So I figured to make it into a sump pit for peace of mind. After the blocks were removed, we found a 2 inch sewer pipe that was duct taped closed. Unfortunately the tape had ripped as they filled the hole with stone. I knew I was smelling sewer gas downstairs! Anyway, it was at that point that the sump pit would be more annoyance than peace of mind. We capped the pipe properly, filled the hole with the broken pieces of cinder block to take up some room, and poured in a bag of concrete. Mike had already brought over a bucket of finishing concrete. He troweled it so smooth you would not even realize there was a hole.
Going across the room is where the beam sits. We built a 2x6 load bearing wall under the beam. Because the span was virtually unsupported originally, that was what caused me headaches laying the floor in the living room. We had to shim the joists. We got it close enough and the 1/8 inch dip in the floor is where I put the 300 lb couch. I would assume that one day in the distant future when the couch goes, the Coretec will have developed a memory and hug the floor, even after the couch goes away.
I attached an image.
I'm going to drywall the side of the all showing, plumb that pipe to run inside the wall, and leave a pipe for later attaching of a utility sink on the other side. I need to add some outlets and a light switch for later. I'll build a workbench to hid the pipes and put underneath cabinets using MDF and 2x4's. I can run the cabinet all the way across and the bulkhead too. I'll put pot lights in the bulkhead or something like that to light the workbench.
It's all going to be for model building when I retire in 3 years. I want to build the big models like the Trumpeter Titanic ($300 for the kit!) and stuff like that. Needs lots of room to work. Maybe work on a wooden ship at some point. But out of 4 kits I only completed one. They are tedious.
Anyway, I was bored so I figured to say hi rather than play computer games.
Take care!
Going across the room is where the beam sits. We built a 2x6 load bearing wall under the beam. Because the span was virtually unsupported originally, that was what caused me headaches laying the floor in the living room. We had to shim the joists. We got it close enough and the 1/8 inch dip in the floor is where I put the 300 lb couch. I would assume that one day in the distant future when the couch goes, the Coretec will have developed a memory and hug the floor, even after the couch goes away.
I attached an image.
I'm going to drywall the side of the all showing, plumb that pipe to run inside the wall, and leave a pipe for later attaching of a utility sink on the other side. I need to add some outlets and a light switch for later. I'll build a workbench to hid the pipes and put underneath cabinets using MDF and 2x4's. I can run the cabinet all the way across and the bulkhead too. I'll put pot lights in the bulkhead or something like that to light the workbench.
It's all going to be for model building when I retire in 3 years. I want to build the big models like the Trumpeter Titanic ($300 for the kit!) and stuff like that. Needs lots of room to work. Maybe work on a wooden ship at some point. But out of 4 kits I only completed one. They are tedious.
Anyway, I was bored so I figured to say hi rather than play computer games.
Take care!
