What did you do today?

[Incognito]

As a contractor if you don't bid that right , You can loose your shirt .

Union shops don't do prevailing wage projects "on the cheap". So that's a BIG 10 4 Roger on that one Nick. You really have to know your historical range of costs for this sort of BS. I started working here in 1987 with the grandpa of the gal who's my salesperson/boss. All I have to do is mention her Grandpa's name and tell some Good Old Stories and her heart melts to butter. My sons as very young boys were invited to her birthday parties. We were over there on Christmas and Thanksgiving---------when things were Hunky-Dory. You know, it's not ALL about business, right?

I know roundabouts where we're at on........furniture, demo, prep, install, mats, transitions, cove base.

This job will come in at a decent profit margin. Nobody is getting rich on this one.

Maybe the next one. We leave the client HAPPY. That's the big picture.

But you know all that. (Ya tu sabes)

 

[highup]

The house has been empty for years. If I don't cut it, it won't get cut.

Givin ya a hard time. $20 sounds pretty fair.
...........now if ya had 48 lawns per day at 10 minutes each ( $120 X 8 hrs)
...then .....then you be buyin' me lunch on your Yacht !

 

[zannej]

I took my Ridgeline for service. They didn't try to push extra stuff on me and did the job quickly. Found a screw in one of the tires and marked it so I could take it to my tire place and get it fixed. Turned out it was only stuck in the treads and hadn't punctured. They put air in the tires apparently because the "low tire pressure" message was gone-- either that or it was doing that bc of the mud. Whatever it was, they fixed it. All less than $60.

They were very nice there and said hopefully my airbag replacement will be available next month (driver airbag in my truck was recalled because it can explode and kill people).

Went to Petsmart to get some pet supplies.

I attempted to use the weedeater on the damn weeds growing over the sidewalk but they were too tough and the weedeater couldn't cut them and then it crapped out. I'll have to use a different tool for it tomorrow.

 

[Jon]

I attempted to use the weedeater on the damn weeds growing over the sidewalk but they were too tough and the weedeater couldn't cut them and then it crapped out. I'll have to use a different tool for it tomorrow.

You need one of our sheep
We have lots here

 

[AndyK]

Put duct tape on the tiny holes in the tin roof of the porch. Keep rain from dripping thru. The roof sealer did not cover the larger holes. New roof next year.

 

[havasu]

I woke up this morning to those extremely small ants everywhere in my kitchen. Worse yet, they were all around my coffee maker. Was this a sick joke? I do not function without my coffee! I had to kill the ants before I had my coffee!

I can tell today is not gunna be good!

 

[Floorist]

Well, I found one, now what the hell do I do with it?:machine gun:

 

[zannej]

I heard 3 parts borax and 1 part sugar will kill roaches and ants. I need to try it because the ants have been rushing into my kitchen bc of the rain outside.

Today my power went out and I had to call the automated system to report outages and request a callback when it was restored. Got the automated call back while my power was still out and this time it let me put in that it was NOT restored (in the past it only informed me that my power should be back and would hang up). So, 20 minutes after I reported it was still out, they had it back up again.

It's raining and that always makes me sleepy. I've been inordinately tired the last few days. I feel a slight tenderness where my adenoid tissue is (from where my tonsils used to be). The fatigue used to coincide with swollen tonsils and once I got them removed I still had a little adenoid tissue left on the right side and it swells/gets sore when I get EBV flareups.

and I just had major brain freeze.

 

[Nick]

Sucrets is good for swollen tonsils Z . Numbs them up .

You can get them anywhere .

 

[havasu]

I have a white peach tree, where one limb was touching my roof. This is how the ants got into my house. I used 2 gallons of indoor/outdoor poison around the perimeter, then used granite sealer/cleaner to kill the ants on the counter. $ hours later and they were still on my counter, so I douche'd them again with granite cleaner/sealer (just because it kills ants and I get a clean granite countertop out of the deal.

Yesterday, I had a crew replace 14 and add 5 new rainbird oscillating sprinklers for the front grass. Tomorrow I have a company who is going to repaint all the phony rocks around my pool and waterfall. The day after tomorrow I will officially be broke!

 

[Floorist]

I have a white peach tree, where one limb was touching my roof. This is how the ants got into my house. I used 2 gallons of indoor/outdoor poison around the perimeter, then used granite sealer/cleaner to kill the ants on the counter. $ hours later and they were still on my counter, so I douche'd them again with granite cleaner/sealer (just because it kills ants and I get a clean granite countertop out of the deal.

Yesterday, I had a crew replace 14 and add 5 new rainbird oscillating sprinklers for the front grass. Tomorrow I have a company who is going to repaint all the phony rocks around my pool and waterfall. The day after tomorrow I will officially be broke!

I'm ahead of you, I am already broke.

 

[Nick]

Thought i saw you in line Floorist .

 

[zannej]

Sucrets is good for swollen tonsils Z . Numbs them up .

You can get them anywhere .

Honestly, sore throats don't bother me much anymore because I had tonsil issues for years. I went for several months in a row of having throat/tonsil infection because I couldn't get an appointment for a long time (I was on Guam and the regular doctor wouldn't do squat and said I needed to see a specialist, but there was only one specialist on island). By the time I finally got in, I had white patches/spots on the back of my throat. The doctor looked horrified and said "Doesn't that hurt" and I told him that my throat had been sore for so long I'd become desensitized and it didn't really bother me.

I also used to get calcium deposits that would build up and get stuck in the pockets behind my tonsils. They would cause irritation and they smelled awful so I would have to reach in and try to dislodge them with my finger (and throw them in the trash). It was pretty gross.

Anyway, before I digressed, it is the fatigue that bothers me. I have chronic Epstein-Barr Virus and I may actually have had mononucleosis back in Guam but they never tested me. The fatigue was so debilitating that I didn't finish college (although I ended up getting my degree about 10 years later). I would sleep more than 24 hours without waking up and still not feel rested when I did wake up. My symptoms sort of mirror Klein Levins syndrome at times (well, before I ever heard of that syndrome).

Fortunately, I don't get the extreme fatigue as frequently nor for as long now, but every once in awhile it comes back to kick my ass.

Today I'm planning to see if any of my weedeaters can tackle those damn weeds that are now about as tall as me.

 

[havasu]

My neighbor gave me a slightly used Roomba automatic vacuum cleaner, so it can easily pick up lint and dog hair throughout the main portion of the house. I charged it for a few days and after mama went to bed late last night, I figured I would give it a whirl to see how it worked. Boy, that thing went all over my tile and throw rugs, in between all my dining room chairs and seemed to not miss a spot. Then, the smell of dog crap was everywhere.

I was unaware that one of my dogs had a bad case of diarrhea, and that damn Roomba hit that hershey squirt pile in the livingroom and spread crap from one end of the house to the other. Worse yet, the crap was oozing out the lint trap of the Roomba, and was all over the wheels. I spent the next two hours cleaning, sanitizing, and mopping the floors. I also had to go outside to hose my new Roomba, and now fried the circuits, and it is now dead.

So much for my easy floor cleaning.

 

[Nick]

Now that the RNC, & DNC is over , I took off my hip boots, and reinstalled the Carpet.

 

[zannej]

Oh man, Havasu that is horrible!

This morning I decided to take my brother's puppy for a walk because I needed the exercise and the puppy needed it too. I was hoping it would tire him out so he would calm his tits. He decided not to come back inside. Anyway, when I opened the front door, I didn't see that there was puppy crap right in front of it so it smeared across the carpet.

I also got bored and found a discussion forum for gun owners where they were talking about a book where Secret Service agents were interviewed about the presidents and their wives:
http://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=909786

It confirmed what my father's friends in the SS had said about Carter. I don't know if it mentioned how he would make the SS fold his laundry for him and one time they didn't fold his pants the way he wanted so he screamed at them and called them "stupid". He cut x-mas bonuses and ordered every other lightbulb to be removed from Federal buildings because he thought it would save electricity but it violated OSHA standards and reduced morale so they had to put the bulbs back. The SS used to refer to him as "Old *******" and he walked around the White House barefoot so they could hear him coming.

According to the book and posts, Bill Clinton was nice but Hillary was horrible to male employees. She was apparently sometimes nicer to female employees but I think they said she fired a female employee for talking on the phone to Barbara Bush or something like that.

Al Gore was a pompous ass and Tipper was a raging bitch and both looked down on the SS.

Ronald Reagan, both Bush families, and the Obamas were nice to the SS agents and treated them with respect.

Nancy was controlling and the Reagan children had to get permission from her to see their own father.

 

[Floorist]

Now that the RNC, & DNC is over , I took off my hip boots, and reinstalled the Carpet.

I did not watch either one.

 

[Incognito]

60 ctns VCT
4 ctn 4" rubber topset base
me and an apprentice 2 days (Thur-Fri)

Someone was there Tues to prime with Ardex P-51 and skim coat over the CHEMICALLY removed adhesive after asbestos abatement

We had to sand the **** out of his "prep" and do minor patch

It's done and I'm on to the next one.

This is what I DO

For those of you who ever dabbled in philosophy there's a school of thought that believes that what you do is what you are--------known as Existentialism.

So this is what I am. Give or take a few cold beers here and there.

 

[Floorist]

Looks good.

 

[Nick]

Ditto.