What did you do today?

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I'm going to have to check at the local lumber store and see what prices are for different grades of plywood and 2x4s. I haven't bought any for a while so I have no clue what they run locally.
A person would think that the prices would be extremely cheap because of covid and nobody having any work to do and the economy being depressed.

 

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I measured up a job where I'm going to be doing some patterned carpeting. I want to have you measured up the kitchen dining room at a second living room which are going to be converted into a laminate called Provenza. The lady has recently remarried and moved back to this area. She said that she had just sold her home which was about 250 mi north of here. I asked how long house was on the market she said two days and it sold for $50,000 more than they were asking.
The economy sucks, and we need more stimulus checks from the government because everyone is starving to death..... I mean, we're like a third world country. I mean, the unemployment rate is 6%......... Just like it was under Obama.
Okay, so why are lumber prices so high?

 

[Floorist]

I hear that some of the timber is in standing water.

 

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That's the good stuff.
They store logs in a Mill pond so they don't dry out. If they store them for long periods on land they would crack and check. When I was a kid, when the ships tied up in town along the highway they were log rafts that were pulled into position so the creams could lift individual batches of logs from the raft. Those logs went from the mountains and then got dropped into the bay to be stored until a ship came in........ Which way back in the good old days, it was like 30 to 45 ships per month into our little teeny tiny Bay. We were somebody, back in the day.

 

[Steve079]

Are you near Brookings?

 

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That's always something I wanted to try but never dove into it.
Nope, I'm up in Coos Bay. Brookings is too close to Comiefornica.

 

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Hey steve, I'm having flashbacks.
Did you go up to Gold Beach once and take the jet boat rides?

 

[Steve079]

Hey steve, I'm having flashbacks.
Did you go up to Gold Beach once and take the jet boat rides?

No, my first wife was from there, we went up there after we were married in 78'. She took me for a ride all right, but it was during our divorce a couple years later.

That thing about the 3 days, that was something from a sourdough forum, if I don't clear my browser before I use the Quote function here, it pops up and sometimes I don't review what the hell Ive posted. I bump around in some of these Sourdough bread forums that have become so popular since the covid thing. Why they all latched onto making Sourdough, I don't know, but it made it hard for me to find good flour, and all those cast iron and clay bakeware I used to find for pennies at yard sales, are non existent. I'm hoping most will give it up, and things go back to normal. Here's the last one I made, I'm doing about 2 loaves a week now, I've cut way back, lol.

 

[Floorist]

Country supper, omelet, biscuits, sausage links and morel mushrooms.

 

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Carnation instant breakfast..... Just add milk.

 

[zannej]

I meant to reply last night but wasn't feeling well.
Prices of lumber have really gone up where I live. Really sucks because I want to build myself a platform bed. My boxspring sucks & doesn't stop my mattress from sliding.
Yesterday early in the morning I felt fluttering in my chest like I get when I have arrhythmia. Pulse was all wonky. When I tried to sit up it looked like everything was spinning. I felt dizzy & nauseous. I went to the bathroom & got really dizzy & had to grab the cabinet to keep fro falling over when I bent down. If I tipped my head down/forward I got dizzy & nauseous. If I tipped it back I had the same thing. I went back to bed & got the same feeling when I tipped my head to the side. When I was lying down it got worse. I seem to have the best luck with sitting up.
Mom was insisting on going to Samsclub that day even though I told her I wasn't feeling well, but she can't lift the water cases herself. I was feeling so crappy that I let her drive-- which was stressful for both of us (she doesn't remember how to use cruise control, she doesn't pay attention to speed limit signs, & she kept missing turns). If I do any of that she screams at me.
I loaded up on cat food & water (I pulled the cases from up high & didn't bend far to put them in the cart). I kept laying my head down on the pile of cat food bags on the cart while waiting for my mother to finish shopping. At one point she asked me if I was ready to leave & I said "Yes". She then went down 10 more aisles & couldn't figure out why I was irritated. Fortunately, there was an employee out in the parking lot collecting carts so he offered to help load stuff in the truck. He got the heavy stuff for me.
Ordered food, got home, found out they screwed up on the order & gave me a bunch of wings & chicken breasts when I wanted thighs & drumsticks. There were only 3 thighs (my favorite out of the friend chicken selection). The dog ripped the box open and stole one of the thighs while I was getting something for my mom.
I still got dizzy today but didn't have the nausea. I'm getting waves of dizziness right now. I almost broke the toilet tank because I started to fall when I pushed the lever-- torqued my shoulder catching myself. Generally feel like garbage but I've felt worse. Very mild headache. I think it may be sinuses. Also very minor chest pain extending through to my spine-- probably gas.
I'm hoping this will pass soon. If I'm still having symptoms by Monday I'll call my doctor.
On the upside, I've been playing around with Sketchup. I like to plan and draw stuff when I can't do other stuff due to health reasons. When I stop being dizzy I'll work on my floor-- whether my shoulder is better or not. I'm planning a platform bed since my current bed frame sucks. I got the idea to use strong ties (which cost 43¢ each). 3dWarehouse didn't have any existing models so I made my own & added hex screws (I found the hex bolts online but they were the wrong size so I had to edit them).
These are the ones I drew (sans screws and then with screws)

I know measurements and angles are off-- I eyeballed the drawings and images to do my best approximation.

 

[Mark Brown]

That is some fairly decent modeling you did there.

 

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That is some fairly decent modeling you did there.

That's no kidding. I wish I was able to do that. Most of the stuff that I used to draw up, was by using Ms paint and a program called IrfanView.

 

[Floorist]

That's no kidding. I wish I was able to do that. Most of the stuff that I used to draw up, was by using Ms paint and a program called IrfanView.

I use crayons

 

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Come on Rusty. At least upgrade to fine point sharpies.
I did a repair in a couple of doorways today and outside the home the previous owner instead of having a dead tree removed, had an artist come over and reshape the tree.
Way, way cool.

 

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I'm more of a talk radio listener. I don't listen to it very much music.
YouTube however has some fantastic musicians.
This guy is a street performer amongst other things but on the street he plays by himself and uses an electronic .......I'm going to call it a single majigger? He can record a bunch of different rhythms and beats and cords from his guitar and set them into a rhythm that makes it sound like he's got a full band backing his butt.
The guy is simply unreal.

 

[Mark Brown]

That thing a majigger is referred to as a loop pedal. There are some other fancy names for them and they make all kinds of weird boxes with fancy names, however at the base they are all just loop pedals. They can do some really nifty things for sure though. That and a drum machine, but that part is obvious.

 

[zannej]

Thanks, guys. I wish I was better at the modeling. I forgot a lot of what I learned from when I started doing 3D modeling many years ago. I used to draw stuff in Milkshape 3D to use as custom content for Morrowind and Sims 2. I made a very cool tower shield for my character in Morrowind. I also had to edit the textures.

I've been using MSPaint forever but I'm not familiar with Irfanview. Sketchup isn't too bad to work with once you figure out what you're doing. I've watched some tutorials that made things a lot easier.

The website had some of the measurements for the braces so I went based on that, guesstimated based on comparing labeled measured areas to non-labeled. I know it's wonky-- some parts too long or too short. I then put circles where it looked like the holes were & used push/pull command to make them in to holes. I think they turned out OK.

My brother got my playing EverQuest with him again. I had to change my resolution bc the UI text is too small for me to read. Still can't read some of it but can't squish it lower res any more. It used to take weeks to gain levels in that game. I went from level 38 to 46 in a few hours. I used to be able to stay up over 24 hours playing that game. I can't stay awake that long anymore. I grouped with my brother's characters and fell asleep a couple of times. He came in to see I was sleeping, woke me up, and told me to log out so we could resume later after some sleep.

It's overcast & will probably rain again. I'm still sleepy & my left arm doesn't like me. I get my next dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Monday.

 

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Here it is, Zan. I like using Ms paint for quickly drawing squares and rectangles. When I've gone to the trouble of growing up rooms in a house, they don't need to be flawlessly accurate. I will just
Overlap rectangles in different directions and then use the eraser to remove any lines that I don't want to be there or to create door openings. Ms paint has a very useful eraser because it's a square. IrfanView has a weird round eraser that I don't like.
IrfanView - Official Homepage - One of the Most Popular Viewers Worldwide
With person view you can also add text at any location you want. It's easy to resize a drawing to any size you want. you type in the numbers to one dimension and it automatically fills in the second dimension to match your screen size.
It's definitely worth checking out.