What did you do today?

[zannej]

My friend's 1st ex's father has Covid. Not good chances of survival because he has Lupus. He exposed his daughter (who has cancer) and grandkids. So my friend can't see his daughter for awhile.

Thursday is the day he's getting more teeth pulled. I'll be going in for an assessment to see what needs to be done on my teeth. Probably need some fillings. The cap/crown they want to put on is over $1k so forget that!

Yesterday I took Mom for her regular checkup. Doctor griped about how the legislators for our state can't do math or follow simple logic. They slated x number of vaccines to be sent out to be distributed on week 1 and same amount for week 2. But then they didn't up the units available for week 3 when they would have week 1 people coming back for 2nd dose as well as new doses being given out. So only people who were getting 2nd dose were able to get their shots for weeks 3 and 4. Halfway through week 5 they realized they needed to roll out more vaccines. Also found that whoever was responsible for putting my mom's name on the vaccine list forgot to put her down. She's been added now though.

Her blood results were better than mine. She takes all sorts of vitamins and supplements but she also was lucky that the heart disease from her family skipped her generation. She genetically had good teeth and heart. I inherited my dad's teeth and heart issues. Got strokes and heart attack on both sides of the family.

I felt like being productive today so I forced myself to clean the kitchen sink. I lacked the mental fortitude to do it before bc it was so bad. My brother had piled literal garbage in it. I found some dishes in there among the hair, wet lint, cheese wrappers, soaked cardboard, etc. It was nasty. It has some black stains in it that won't go away but I got stuff out of it and it's as clean as I could get it before my back gave out. I stuffed stuff in the dishwasher. I'll pull it out and clean it better later since the dishwasher we have is only good as a drying rack. Next step is cleaning counters and then the floor.

One of my favorite singers came out with a version of a song my family used to sing in the car on long trips.


I've been a fan of bass singers ever since Bowzer from Sha Na Na was on TV. My parents like(d) bass singers too. My mom's current favorite is Tim Foust. I wish he had more solo songs. He and Geoff Castelluci are my current favorites.

 

[Floorist]

 

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Where the heck are people getting Covid from? Does anyone watch the news? For approaching a year they drove in your head 50 times per day to take precautions. Do people that get covid wear masks and use hand sanitizer and wash their hands? I just have a hard time feeling this is like radioactivity from a nuclear bomb. If you don't get near it you're not going to get it. Frustrating.

 

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Yes I'm also one of those people that also think it was dumb for people to have traveled for Thanksgiving and Christmas this year. How do you get covid if you stay away from people and take precautions?

 

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Well my day today went fairly well, I got done what I needed to. I installed some self-leveling concrete in the hallway to cover up some very irregular terracotta tiles. The correct primer was not available so I used another primer made by Latacrete. It says to apply primer, mixed one to one with water then pour it on, ...then sprinkle the self-leveling powder onto the wet surface and scrub it in to make a slurry.
The manufacturer for the leveler I used has a one component product that you roll on, then wait for it to dry. Simple and quick.
The method by laticrete means you have to scrub the material you poured onto the floor with powder and it's kind of messy creating the slurry that way.
Though it's a slow process scrubbing it in to the surface mixing the powder and slurry mix probably helps bond it to the surface better by scuffing it up as we scrub the floor mixing the slurry.
It dried faster than I expected and that was a good thing.
So today I made a really nice looking terracotta hallway quite ugly.
I didn't take any pictures but I also put 80 lb of self-leveling concrete over the floor to flatten it out. it turned out pretty nice. These tiles are really tall in the center and inconsistent in thickness. I'm installing a low profile carpet and there is no way in hell I would have installed it without doing this first. The lady questioned why I needed to do this. I would have simply refused to do the job because I knew my stretched-in carpet job would fail if I didn't flatten the floor.
It also would have been dangerous for people to walk on. The carpet would have looked flat. However walking on it would have felt like walking on mountains and mole hills. People would easily have tripped on this hallway. The people users house is a bed and breakfast so safety is more of a concern than a regular house.

 

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They're going to quarantine me.

Is a challenge this mom and dad need to get an award. What a really neat family.

 

[Floorist]

My first cousin that died from it got it from his daughter. She thought that wearing a mask violated her freedom.

 

[Jon]

Where the heck are people getting Covid from? Does anyone watch the news? For approaching a year they drove in your head 50 times per day to take precautions. Do people that get covid wear masks and use hand sanitizer and wash their hands? I just have a hard time feeling this is like radioactivity from a nuclear bomb. If you don't get near it you're not going to get it. Frustrating.

This is our latest
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/nati...urn-positive-result/ar-BB1dn9F9?ocid=msedgdhp
People keep bringing it into New Zealand

 

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That's the same way we got in the United States.

 

[Jon]

I think we should just shut the borders to everybody until this virus gets sorted like letting sports teams in bringing the virus them then getting cases like this where the govt wont let these people in
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/he...oliday-in-new-zealand-after-antarctic-posting

 

[zannej]

Rusty, that was one of my dad's favorite songs. I loaded it up to listen to it while waiting at my doctor's office for my appointment. They play some kind of elevator music that I don't like so I get out my phone and listen to my own music. Paul Robeson did a version of Lazy Bones, but I like the Leon Redbone version better. We also liked stuff by Mungo Jerry. In the Summertime is a good one.


Got up early for the dental appointment and took my friend. They took lots of x-rays and said I need some sort of bonding done on a lot of my teeth and some fillings. Need to fix the chip on one of my molars and do something to reduce the gap between two molars where food constantly gets stuck. They have to wait for approval from my doctor since I have to take antibiotics first due to prolapsed valves. They were asking me about my cardiologist & I had to explain that he died & I haven't found a good one since.

Things did not go well for my friend. Numbing wouldn't work. They started trying to pull a tooth & he felt it and made a noise. They stopped and waited but his gums would not go numb. He was given a referral to an oral surgeon- which will be more expensive. His sinus cavity, nose, lips, and tongue all went numb, but his gums didn't. He had a hard time eating but he managed to eat two plates of food.

Ran in to another mutual friend at Tractor Supply. I had to get cow feed. He teased unlucky friend about how he was like the broom for sale- "all purpose and gets pushed around". We are going to help the mutual friend with fixing up the house he just bought. I've offered to haul stuff in the truck, paint, and check out the plumbing to make sure it's right. My guess is that it probably isn't.

Friend's mom's boyfriend survived covid. But not sure if his ex's father will survive since he has Lupus.

It's already getting cold today & it's supposed to get down to 15 next Friday (which is nearly unheard of around here). Might even snow.

 

[Floorist]

Stopped at a flea market and bought an old bookcase for $25.

 

[Floorist]

Kids know how to make you feel good. My 15 year old grandson was helping me load some of the stuff I had made in my shop. We found a big castle I made about 20 years ago, it has turrets, an arched double door and a drawbridge. He asked if he could have it. I said aren't you a little old to play with that. He said, I don't want it to play with, I want it because you made it.

 

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I think we should just shut the borders to everybody until this virus gets sorted like letting sports teams in bringing the virus them then getting cases like this where the govt wont let these people in
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/he...oliday-in-new-zealand-after-antarctic-posting

So people staying for a month or three at McMurdo station and obviously can't get covid still can't visit New Zealand? Now I think that's going to wee bit overboard.
Quarantine the entire Earth nobody can leave home for one month even to buy food or to see a doctor. I'm guessing that would bring it under control.
... but it ain't going to happen.
Nobody's mentioned the suicide rate increase in the past year. I'll have to check that out.
The only impact this has had on my life in the past year is I wear a mask when I go into a store.
Today is the second job in the last year where I've been asked to wear a mask. Working with a mask on really sucks. That's people in the home are rarely within 50 ft of me and both of them wear masks in the house and when outdoors.
So far covered has been very very good to me. My work has been relatively steady for most of the year and the jobs are larger than I'd like.
I have two homes coming up in the next month and I still haven't gotten to a half dozen repairs from back in November. Even though my hours are short the workload still beats my body up a little bit, but it's better having a week or two with no work.

 

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Stopped at a flea market and bought an old bookcase for $25.
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it's funny that sometimes you can buy something already built and it would cost you four times as much to buy the parts cut them, assemble it and stain it.

 

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Mungo Jerry.......
Now that's a name that I haven't heard for a long time. That guy must have carbide tipped razors.

 

[Jon]

Thats why I posted that link
They are not letting those people from Antarctica in who dont have the virus but let in sports teams from overseas who bring the virus with them. Makes no sense

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/he...-cricket-squad-tests-positive-for-coronavirus

 

[Jon]

Mungo Jerry.......
Now that's a name that I haven't heard for a long time. That guy must have carbide tipped razors.

I have the record here somewhere

 

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Thats why I posted that link
They are not letting those people from Antarctica in who dont have the virus but let in sports teams from overseas who bring the virus with them. Makes no sense

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/he...-cricket-squad-tests-positive-for-coronavirus

That's how government works. Typically they make no sense.
Ya suppose the state/country makes more money allowing large athletic competitions than from a handful of researchers visiting from the South Pole wanting to take in a few sites and stay at a hotel for a couple of nights?
If you follow the money you'll find out the reasons. It's the money.

 

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Hey Zan, I bet he like this one too.

I can't believe how many videos this family puts out is like one a day. If you watch a lot of these videos the boy that plays the bass and other instruments is fantastic. So is the one that plays the drums but drummers don't seem to get the correct amount of attention. Everyone seems to be spot on when they do these videos. . As fast as they pump these videos out I'm amazed at the quality of the music. Dad is fantastic but the two boys are amazing for their age. They make it seem effortless.