What did you do today?
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I was going to send some your way Jon but the postage ate it up.
I finally get some really good numbers and those guys forgot how football is played. 
Oh well there's always next year. I think I'm going back to buying one square.
Oh well there's always next year. I think I'm going back to buying one square.
I think Alabama could have beat the Chiefs yesterday.
No actually they played flawlessly. I had a nine on my square. The buccaneers are the ones that kept screwing up. Their foolishness cost me 20 bucks.
Mr Rogers lied. Supposed to be -8 to -10 Saturday night, actual temp.
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Yesterday I trolled Mom when she was watching the Superbowl. She muted the TV since she hates the commentary. I pretended to not know what a quarterback was (I called it Nickleback as a joke). Argued with her about Tom Brady's function on the team. & gave my own commentary on what was happening. I honestly can't really tell what's going on. Never liked football. LOL. I was like "Oh look, they are running. Now they are stopping. Some guys fell down. That guy hurt his leg. Nice of that guy to help the other guy up" and so forth. Mom was getting frustrated. LOL. I had wanted to watch something else but she insisted on watching that so I was being a pain.
I guess karma decided I was too much of a punk though bc today was fun. Packages got stuck in the box at the post office. The one package was 1/16" too tall to come out the front. Had to get the postal worker to pull my mail out from the back and bring it around to the desk.
Went to Tractor Supply to get a stall mat & some cow feed. Got my foot stuck in some mud while unloading the stall mat. It flopped on top of my leg and I was losing my balance. Almost caught myself but the cow decided to give me a kiss on the head with her slobbery tongue. I fell into a pile of cow crap. At least it was soft. I almost landed on a cinderblock. Put my hand in stinging nettles trying to get up. I had to doge cow horns (successfully) while cutting open the feed bag because the cow was trying to bust it open with her horns. Cows enjoyed their food and I went inside to wash up and change clothes.
Went to Samsclub with my brother afterward & got water. Grabbed some Chinese takeout. Took some naproxyn bc my back hates me & am resting. Cats decided to lick my face and cuddle. Dog got jealous so she crawled up and started licking my face. Both dogs licked my face today. So, I've been licked by a cow, a few cats, and the dogs.
I guess karma decided I was too much of a punk though bc today was fun. Packages got stuck in the box at the post office. The one package was 1/16" too tall to come out the front. Had to get the postal worker to pull my mail out from the back and bring it around to the desk.
Went to Tractor Supply to get a stall mat & some cow feed. Got my foot stuck in some mud while unloading the stall mat. It flopped on top of my leg and I was losing my balance. Almost caught myself but the cow decided to give me a kiss on the head with her slobbery tongue. I fell into a pile of cow crap. At least it was soft. I almost landed on a cinderblock. Put my hand in stinging nettles trying to get up. I had to doge cow horns (successfully) while cutting open the feed bag because the cow was trying to bust it open with her horns. Cows enjoyed their food and I went inside to wash up and change clothes.
Went to Samsclub with my brother afterward & got water. Grabbed some Chinese takeout. Took some naproxyn bc my back hates me & am resting. Cats decided to lick my face and cuddle. Dog got jealous so she crawled up and started licking my face. Both dogs licked my face today. So, I've been licked by a cow, a few cats, and the dogs.
At your place?
Got my pain in the ass hallway down today. Had a solid core door to cut base to replace and finish the corner of the step. It was too late on Friday to complete it all.
I didn't trust the terracotta tile to hold concrete nails so I drilled all the holes for the tack strip. I floated the tile with two bags of self-leveling concrete and there was a step at both ends of the hallway both done and brick. I converted both steps so they were a box type step by adding plywood filler to the lower part of the riser to make it all flush. In the bedroom I put plywood on the side of the brick also to give me something to tack to.
It'll be a week and a half before the carpet comes in for the office hallway and master bedroom. I discovered all of that area has copper tubing in the cement for heat so I'm going to have to at a second layer of tack strip and it all has to be glued. Not looking forward to this.
I didn't trust the terracotta tile to hold concrete nails so I drilled all the holes for the tack strip. I floated the tile with two bags of self-leveling concrete and there was a step at both ends of the hallway both done and brick. I converted both steps so they were a box type step by adding plywood filler to the lower part of the riser to make it all flush. In the bedroom I put plywood on the side of the brick also to give me something to tack to.
It'll be a week and a half before the carpet comes in for the office hallway and master bedroom. I discovered all of that area has copper tubing in the cement for heat so I'm going to have to at a second layer of tack strip and it all has to be glued. Not looking forward to this.
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In the hallway photo that's all gray that's just a slurry coat before I poured the self leveler. It was the wrong primer for this particular product but it worked really well anyway.
That carpeted step is not to shabby for a rookie. Nice job. Hey on the floor that has the copper pipe in it if you turn up the heat and damp mop the floor near the walls it will show you where the pipes are by drying first, just mark them with a marker and you are good to go. I hit 1 water line and 1 refrigeration line in my years of installing. The refeer line was in a bar. Shut him down for the weekend and was he poed. When they are buried in concrete it is a crap shoot.
Yep, and 9 above Sunday for a high.At your place?
At first I was tempted to turn the edge of the carpet under at the step but I decided to miter the edge backwards onto the side of the step at an angle like I usually do. I did a test piece with a scrap and the carpet direction change isn't very visible at all. It's a bedroom and you don't get a straight-on look at it anyway. I sealed the edges of the cuts with hot glue and use hot glue to form the corner of the miter at the top of the stair edge. With the hot glue softening the carpet backing at that miter point you have a lot of control as it begins to cool and can mold or form it like putty sometimes...... fuzzy putty.
I actually pondered hand sewing that corner, but folding it back to sew it would have been a pain in the ass.
The customer lives in the house and to make the tubes show up I think you need to turn the temperature off overnight to let the slab cool down and then turn it on again to use the mop method. When I use the infrared non-contact thermometer in a log home I didn't have any trouble at all finding the tubes the first day but we left the heat on..... now the entire floor was warm and it was very difficult to find the tubes.
Shouldn't make a whole lot of difference of what the temp is, if you turn it up it will make the floor that much hotter where the tubes are, or turn it down for a couple of hours then turn it up.
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The step looks better with the carpet instead of brick. Looked like it was part of a surround for a fireplace before. Wallpaper is interesting. LOL. Much nicer than the wallpaper in my house. Only places in my house you can see wallpaper are behind the freezer and in the hallway near my room. It came with the house and we never bothered to get rid of it.
You can see it in this photo to the left behind my cat Yasuke.
I went to the post office but there was no mail. Went to the store. Mom wanted bread. Brother wanted milk. So I got those plus some stuff to cook later and also got a piece of cake, ice cream, and a chocolate milk for my brother since it's his birthday. Bro sat down and had his cake with a big bowl of ice cream.
I'm resting a bit before putting away the food I cooked earlier. Itsy (one of the cats) wanted to "help" by walking on the controls, changing the temperature settings, and licking the spatula. She also purred and made noises at me while I was cooking to let me know she was there and wanted attention and food.
You can see it in this photo to the left behind my cat Yasuke.
I went to the post office but there was no mail. Went to the store. Mom wanted bread. Brother wanted milk. So I got those plus some stuff to cook later and also got a piece of cake, ice cream, and a chocolate milk for my brother since it's his birthday. Bro sat down and had his cake with a big bowl of ice cream.
I'm resting a bit before putting away the food I cooked earlier. Itsy (one of the cats) wanted to "help" by walking on the controls, changing the temperature settings, and licking the spatula. She also purred and made noises at me while I was cooking to let me know she was there and wanted attention and food.
This whole thing is just a Democrats proving how much they hate Trump. They didn't like him calling them the swamp. The media doesn't like being called fake news.
The Democrats only have 56 votes so far, they need 67.
Hey Zan, here you go. Bethany plays the drums.
Hey anybody home? No posts in 2 days? Just checking if everyone is ok.
