What did you do today?

[C.J.]

Man I feel for ya, @highup. I’ve gotten to the point that if my van is in the shop I just take the day(s) off. Not worth the headache of transferring tools and trying to make the job work cus you know you always forget something or some other ********. I had to borrow my girlfriends mini van one time for a side job when my van was down and I felt like a tweaker with carpet and pad sticking out the back of a beat up Ford Aerostar. Ain’t never doin that again.

 

[MikeAntonetti]

Removing base, took up carpet(put in garage for donation) and they’re asking to demo shower. I just like? Removing floors bonded to substrates,

 

[highup]

The job that I'm on is about 4 mi away. My next job is a new house and it's 50 mi away but travel time is going to be about an hour and 20 minutes because it's not all on the highway. I was lucky enough to have a friend offer me use of his van while my truck was down. I wasn't even going to ask him because my neighbor could shuffle me around town to get to O'Reilly's for a few days. He just said "hey, why don't you take my blue van until you get done"
Friends don't get any better than that. It's a blue, short Chevy van and it looks a hell of a lot better than anything I own. It was really nice having the transportation. I needed it a lot more than I thought I would.

 

[highup]

Removing base, took up carpet(put in garage for donation) and they’re asking to demo shower. I just like? Removing floors bonded to substrates,

Mike, I can't believe the guy didn't add some glue to that piece of base. Nails just don't hold good enough.

 

[zannej]

Rusty, I hope everything will be OK with you.

Highup, man, the guy that did that "work" really did a sloppy job.

Today I got up early & went to Samsclub to grab more water & stuff. Got some battery backups for the phone, mom's cpap, and the modem/router. Picked up mail, got home and went to set up the backups & the power went out. Was out a few hours and then came back on but TV is not working. Not sure if it came unplugged or what, but the light in that room doesn't work and I can't see worth crap even with the little lantern. Plus mom has been throwing trash on the floor again instead of in the trash bag I gave her. So now I have to go clean up the mess again to get to the TV. Will look at it in daylight. If I can't figure it out, my friend will come out to take a look.

At least I remembered to take my medicines today.

I made a run in to McDonalds since we couldn't cook with the power out. My cat, Predicate, missed me so he's sitting on my shoulder rubbing his face against mine and purring in my ear.

 

[highup]

McDonald's saves the day again.
We don't have a lot of power outages and that's..... a good thing.

 

[zannej]

We didn't have any for quite awhile but have been getting them almost once per week. I think it's 3 weeks in a row now.

 

[Tom Picciani]

Got 6 sheets of drywall. Heavy stuff! My friend brought it over. Stood up 3 sheets against wall and 3 on 2 x4’s over saw horses. Too hot in garage so I opened the door to the house to cool things off.

 

[MikeAntonetti]

After about 5 tries until demo day I tried to push off a shower demo to the tile guy. Half tiled wall, angled glass door, top glass wall, 2nd day my brother demo’d it, we did floor tile, carpet, tack strip, base removal.

 

[Mark Brown]

Today I finally got my oversized 360A alternator installed. It was a gigantic pain in the ass because the diameter is about 0.5 inches larger than the last one so I had to remove the brackets from the engine block, install a set back plate, guess what size belt I needed and then proceed to swear for about 5 hours to make all of that work but now, now it works like a hot damn and I could not be happier with it.

This weekend the stereo goes back in and it will be the first time that I would be able to power it without voltage/power drop so we will see how that works. I know I am jacked.

 

[Jon]

McDonald's saves the day again.
We don't have a lot of power outages and that's..... a good thing.

Are you having no power cause of the fires in your area?

 

[havasu]

I got me a 25' tall flag pole. Dug a hole 18" deep, inserted the sleeve, and buried two bags of concrete. Tomorrow I will set up the rollers and rope, and hang the flag of the good ol' US of A.

 

[Tom Picciani]

Making progress hanging drywall in garage. Outlet cuts are still a little off but better than my first one. Idiot builder could have paid a little more attention to the measuring tape when he studded the wall. Studs are 16 1/4 on center. Ran out of stud after 2 panels. I have one panel left on this wall. Then I need to drywall around door and a 3 foot wide piece on first wall.
I can safely say one thing. I’m glad I became a computer technician rather than a drywall hanger!

 

[Floorist]

I got me a 25' tall flag pole. Dug a hole 18" deep, inserted the sleeve, and buried two bags of concrete. Tomorrow I will set up the rollers and rope, and hang the flag of the good ol' US of A.

You can do that in Kommiefornia?

 

[highup]

Got 6 sheets of drywall. Heavy stuff! My friend brought it over. Stood up 3 sheets against wall and 3 on 2 x4’s over saw horses. Too hot in garage so I opened the door to the house to cool things off.

I've been disccovering in the last 6 months to a year that everything that was heavily is now heavier.
I'm pretty sure it's just me and the stuff is actually the same way that used to be. Because of that I think that two people are better than one in a lot of instances.

 

[highup]

You can do that in Kommiefornia?

I somehow missed his post on that. I'd almost think he might get arrested.

 

[highup]

Got me a hill crescent wrench today at the habitat store.
300 cents bought me this 10-in beauty. The jaws are much wider than any crescent wrench I have seen. Though it seemed some use the jaws move as fine as a Swiss watch. This was back in the day when they actually made a nice wrench. I'd rather own this one than a brand new one at the same size.

 

[zannej]

I went to Walmart with my brother to get groceries. Felt exhausted the entire time. Could still barely bend or move. Fortunately, he did most of the bending and lifting. Went home and cooked for mom. Took a nap until mom wanted food again. Got back up and cooked again, then changed the AC filter. It was getting way too warm at night. Now it's nice and chilly.

Watched some TV with mom (I figured out what was wrong-- power strip was burned out so I swapped it out & mom watched tv). There was a show about cop bodycams showing stuff happening. I didn't see the whole thing but gist was a cop pulled a woman over for some traffic violation and while dealing with her, some idiot in a Honda CR-V was cruising at 117mph and ran in to the back of a Ford Windstar. Lady in the Windstar had just refueled & the sparks from the metal started a fire. Looked like there was an explosion. Cop grabbed a fire extinguisher, rushed over, sprayed the woman and front seat with the extinguisher, undid her seatbelt, and dragged her out. He had already called in for backup and had cops move her farther away from the burning wreckage. Paramedics showed up and were going to treat the woman who caused the accident but the cop yelled that the other woman was the priority. He then had to go back to the lady who he pulled over to ask for her info & promised not to give her a ticket-- said he just needed her as a witness to what happened and said he was glad she didn't get hurt by any of the debris. Lady was asking him if he was OK and saying she was worried and how brave he was to rush over to a burning car like that. Lady in the CRV survived and was prosecuted. Lady in the Windstar had a broken back, punctured lung, broken ribs, injured spleen, 2nd & 3rd degree burns. A couple months after she'd already had 16 surgeries and still needed more. She'd apparently been unconscious in the hospital for 3 weeks after the wreck. All she remembered was sitting at the red light and then waking up in the hospital.

It was nice to see something about good cops.

Thursday I'm making plans with my friend to go have a Loki marathon at his house. I'll bring food and we can hang out and watch. I hope I can get my mom to come over too. She might if she gets to hold the baby.

 

[highup]

I went to Walmart with my brother to get groceries. Felt exhausted the entire time. Could still barely bend or move. Fortunately, he did most of the bending and lifting. Went home and cooked for mom. Took a nap until mom wanted food again. Got back up and cooked again, then changed the AC filter. It was getting way too warm at night. Now it's nice and chilly.

Watched some TV with mom (I figured out what was wrong-- power strip was burned out so I swapped it out & mom watched tv). There was a show about cop bodycams showing stuff happening. I didn't see the whole thing but gist was a cop pulled a woman over for some traffic violation and while dealing with her, some idiot in a Honda CR-V was cruising at 117mph and ran in to the back of a Ford Windstar. Lady in the Windstar had just refueled & the sparks from the metal started a fire. Looked like there was an explosion. Cop grabbed a fire extinguisher, rushed over, sprayed the woman and front seat with the extinguisher, undid her seatbelt, and dragged her out. He had already called in for backup and had cops move her farther away from the burning wreckage. Paramedics showed up and were going to treat the woman who caused the accident but the cop yelled that the other woman was the priority. He then had to go back to the lady who he pulled over to ask for her info & promised not to give her a ticket-- said he just needed her as a witness to what happened and said he was glad she didn't get hurt by any of the debris. Lady was asking him if he was OK and saying she was worried and how brave he was to rush over to a burning car like that. Lady in the CRV survived and was prosecuted. Lady in the Windstar had a broken back, punctured lung, broken ribs, injured spleen, 2nd & 3rd degree burns. A couple months after she'd already had 16 surgeries and still needed more. She'd apparently been unconscious in the hospital for 3 weeks after the wreck. All she remembered was sitting at the red light and then waking up in the hospital.

It was nice to see something about good cops.

Thursday I'm making plans with my friend to go have a Loki marathon at his house. I'll bring food and we can hang out and watch. I hope I can get my mom to come over too. She might if she gets to hold the baby.

There's a YouTube channel called video leak police that shows what cops really go through when things get tough. If the news would show these videos instead of the anti/negative cop stories, a lot of people would change their mind and appreciate the police for things that can happen when the cops are called to a crime or a scene.

 

[MikeAntonetti]

I’m surprised you could find flagpoles, I thought Republicans bought them all to beat Police with.

shhh I hear crickets!

Mark, you keep that fire hazard car 3000 k away from me.