What did you do today?

[highup]

This is where the seams would be.
The wall next to the stairwell is 12 feet from the hallway seam, and I can make that farther out if needed. The second short seam is at a bedroom doorway. It's about 10 feet away from the stair wall. The two images are from each side looking to this balcony area.

 

[zannej]

Thanks, CJ.

Highup, that looks complicated & the lack of railing would give me vertigo. I would not want to go anywhere near the edge. I'm guessing they will be installing some sort of railing later?

I still remember when I was a kid my parents told me not to trust anything I saw on tv or the news- that people on TV were liars. Then one day I saw my dad on TV (for a news thing where they interviewed him). I apparently turned to my Mom and said "Is Daddy lying?" and was told that everyone except my dad was lying when they were on TV. Nowadays the news people would have muted or lowered his mic because he would sometimes get into debates and would just keep talking over the people who interrupted him.

I got my curbside pickup order. Lady who brought my order out was very sweet. I rejected one of the substitutions but told her over the phone which one I didn't want so she could pull it out ahead of time. Rolled down the window and had her drop the bags on the seat.

Got home and drank a full liter of water with a pack of EmergenC powder (vitamin C and Zinc). Something a doctor friend of mine recommended. Felt really sleepy right after but am feeling a teeny bit better now. Mild sinus headache, but could be worse. At least my mask smells nice fresh out of the wash.

On the countertop formica thing: Does this sound crazy?
I was thinking of tacking paint stirring sticks on two of the sides (back and left side) so that when I set the formica on it, it will line up without much overhang and then I can mark and cut the excess (leaving at least 1/4" room for error on right and front parts. I can use the marks to identify the edge of where I want to spread the glue. I'm still debating whether I should use spread on gel or spray on. I'm worried spray won't come out consistently but with gel I'll have more control. I would have to make sure the paint sticks lean back a little instead of forward so when I go to place the formica over the dowels, I can slide it in place and the sticks should help to get it to stay where I want it. I will keep in mind that the center part will have a hole for the sink so the front and back edges are where I'll be using the roller. I can knock the painting sticks off if they get in the way.

I'm also thinking of using the painting sticks on the underside of the front edge so that I can place the strip on it to have very little underhang and to keep it lined up so I don't have it crooked like all of the stickers on my VHS and audio cassette tapes.

 

[Jon]

Thanks, CJ. That info is very helpful. I was planning to mark the edges and only go a little past with the adhesive. Formica recommended a solvent spray (in their video they showed 3M 90 spray on contact cement). I like the idea of something being a little more forgiving than contact cement, but it's a bathroom countertop where there will be water so I don't want the adhesive to break down because of water. I think I'll stick with the ball-bearing thing and make sure I clean it between uses. Would putting vaseline on it actually be a good thing? Or would it gunk it up?

I've been very tired today. Had arrhythmia earlier. Have irritation/itcthing/tickling in my trachea and chest. Sinus headache. Feeling slightly nauseous still. I took something for the headache but it didn't kick in.

My friend's gf tested positive for Covid. She has a fever, lung & chest pain, & diarrhea. Her baby now has a fever and diarrhea. The people who gave her Covid are feeling really crappy & having fevers but apparently they have been going to Walmart every day (more than once per day) even after being diagnosed. I alerted a friend who works at Walmart so he would stay clear of them. He told me they are up there constantly and that so many people are coming in sick and the store might have to shut down. He actually stopped to talk to me from a distance the day I was exposed and saw the people who exposed me behind me in line. He also said that since he's a manager there, if I order stuff for curbside pickup, he'll make sure they bring stuff out to me so I don't have to come in the store.

I did make sure to be somewhat productive today. I swept the hallway, wiped the counters down (muddy cat pawprints all over), and am working on laundry. I need to check the dryer and see if it's done. I do deep clean sanitize which takes about 2 hours and then I put it on low heat dry for 1hr 15min. Usually have to put it in for another 15 to 30min to get it to dry, but 1hr15 is the max it will do on timed dry.

If I continue to feel sick or if I get worse I'll go get tested. I hear there are meds people can take to alleviate symptoms and speed things along.

zannej it really surprises me is that people are allowed to walk around and mingle with others knowingly that they are infected

 

[MSLI]

This is where the seams would be.

I wonder how it would look running the 12’ perpendicular to the angled walls ? This would eliminate those two seams . Got a pic of the carpet sample ?

 

[C.J.]

zannej it really surprises me is that people are allowed to walk around and mingle with others knowingly that they are infected

I think most people are just done with the whole Covid thing. I know I am. Pretty much every thing we’ve been told about it is BS, politically/ financially motivated or just made up on the fly because what we’ve been told keeps changing. Give it two weeks (two years later). Take the shot and you’re safe (now you need a booster, second booster, third and a fourth). Wear a mask. Don’t wear a mask. Wear a mask again. Quarantine for two weeks. Quarantine for 5 days. The shot isn’t that effective. People that get repeated shots have weakened immune systems (now you are a customer for life as if you weren’t already). The tests are inaccurate. The best one is I just heard on the tv the other day that if you’re a health care worker (in AZ) and you are asymptomatic then you don’t need to quarantine at all and can continue to work as long as you wear a mask. If they don’t have to quarantine then why do I? Look at Israel, Japan, India and the success or failure they’ve had. How about infection rates in states with heavy restrictions and mask mandates compared to those in ‘freedom’ states.

Can you now see why people don’t care.

 

[Jon]

C.J. we are still trying to kept it at bay, lots of people bring it into the country even though they are meant to be clear before they get here
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/nati...break-occurs/ar-AASLhF5?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

 

[C.J.]

We’re funny here in the U.S. I guess that’s about the best answer I can come up with.

 

[zannej]

I don't care what virus it is-- Covid, Flu, cold, etc-- if you KNOW you are sick and you KNOW you can spread it to someone by standing in close proximity to them for more than 15min & you choose to stand very close and yabber at them for an extended period of time instead of saying "Hey, I'm sick, don't want to get you sick, will keep my distance" then its inconsiderate at the very least. Not quite as bad as deliberately coughing on people-- which someone did to a friend of mine (pre-Covid & the coughing people had colds), but still incredibly rude. As an aside, the friend who got coughed on by people deliberately was immune compromised and had to spend several days in the hospital because of it. The people who yabbered at me know I have medical conditions & know I'm my mother's caregiver and that she's at risk. Part of the problem is that the whole mess has become politicized.

IMO, whether a virus is fatal or not, I consider it rude to knowingly spread it. Before Covid, if I was sick, I avoided people. I would tell them "I'm sick, please stay back so I don't get you sick". I would try to stay home if I could, but it wasn't always possible.

On another topic, my friend's batshit gf just informed him that she wants to break up with him and move into her own apartment, but she wants him to pay for everything for her. He can't even afford his own place much less an apartment for her. He packed her stuff up and told her as soon as she's done with quarantine, she can move her stupid ass out, but he's not paying for anything for her. (of course he says that, but we all know she'll beg him for $ and he'll give it to her and then not be able to afford the bills).

 

[Jon]

Found out which countries are bringing 266 Omicron cases into NZ but with these numbers coming into NZ we have been lucky so far


The ministry said there have now been 266 Omicron cases detected at the border since the start of December, with more than 18,000 people being processed through managed isolation and quarantine facilities in that time.

The 43 new cases at the border came from Australia, Singapore, UAE, Fiji and the USA.
Yesterday there were 28 new community cases, with 13 in MIQ.

At the moment here I am glad that everybody has to wear a mask out and about along with any function people attend having to show a card saying that they have been double dosed, no card no entry as my immunity system is down for a little while, meaning I dont have to stay home

 

[zannej]

I'm slightly surprised that its coming from Singapore. They are pretty controlling there. I wonder if they were visitors to Singapore and not natives. Or maybe things have changed a lot since I lived there.

I've heard that fake vaccination cards are a thing.

I'm sitting here with a cat on my lap listening to my nose whistle every time I breathe.

As a complete aside, I was thinking of old Sears catalogs where they had the toilet skirts, toilet seat covers, toilet tank skirts, bathmats, etc and they were over carpet. Anyone here dealt with carpet in a bathroom before?
I remember my house had carpet in two of the bathrooms when we moved in.

 

[Jon]

I'm slightly surprised that its coming from Singapore. They are pretty controlling there. I wonder if they were visitors to Singapore and not natives. Or maybe things have changed a lot since I lived there.

I've heard that fake vaccination cards are a thing.

I'm sitting here with a cat on my lap listening to my nose whistle every time I breathe.

As a complete aside, I was thinking of old Sears catalogs where they had the toilet skirts, toilet seat covers, toilet tank skirts, bathmats, etc and they were over carpet. Anyone here dealt with carpet in a bathroom before?
I remember my house had carpet in two of the bathrooms when we moved in.

There was carpet in bathrooms here years ago but one had to lay a sheet vinyl product to stop any :spills" going through the carpet damaging the timber type sub flloor, directly over concrete was okay, I think from memory. Now days one never sees carpet in a bathroom

 

[zannej]

They didn't put anything under the carpet in my bathrooms-- which is why the floor rotted and the toilet fell through the floor with my brother on it.

Just had another argument with my brother because he was trying to incorrectly explain something to me that I actually knew about (Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs). He was calling it by the wrong name and explaining it all wrong but trying to act like the authority on it. I reminded him that I'm the one with the college degree and that I did study Sociology, Psychology, and Business. MHN was discussed in all three in my classes. Particularly business because we discussed how appeasing workers became harder. Once they had basic needs filled, they wanted more. But he didn't know what he was talking about and was lecturing me about it. I very rarely interrupt him to tell him I already know something or I've heard it before. I usually let him blather on. But he was so condescending about it as if I didn't know after I repeatedly told him I knew how it worked. He claimed I was only pretending to know. Had a little tantrum and went to his room calling me names. LOL.

 

[highup]

I wonder how it would look running the 12’ perpendicular to the angled walls ? This would eliminate those two seams . Got a pic of the carpet sample ?

This is the carpet that was chosen.
I'll show a sketch of the layout tomorrow. If it was perpendicular to that wall then there'd be four bedrooms and hallways would have to be installed at an angle too. It would also cross over the top step at an angle.
I have total control over the price, so it's whether or not I want to do the job that's the issue.
The location is a little ways up the river and only about 6 mi from town. The driveway is a quarter mile long at a 10% grade upwards. I need to throw a couple of 100 lb sandbags in the back of the pickup to get up there. All of the carpeting is upstairs so there be a 21-ft, a 24-ft, and a 25 ft carpet that would need to get carried through the house and snaked up the stairway.
After the work I've done this past year I'm getting kind of sick of stairways. Stairways didn't seem to bother me 25 years ago.

 

[highup]

Found out which countries are bringing 266 Omicron cases into NZ but with these numbers coming into NZ we have been lucky so far


The ministry said there have now been 266 Omicron cases detected at the border since the start of December, with more than 18,000 people being processed through managed isolation and quarantine facilities in that time.

The 43 new cases at the border came from Australia, Singapore, UAE, Fiji and the USA.
Yesterday there were 28 new community cases, with 13 in MIQ.

At the moment here I am glad that everybody has to wear a mask out and about along with any function people attend having to show a card saying that they have been double dosed, no card no entry as my immunity system is down for a little while, meaning I dont have to stay home

I've always had a beard so Mass doesn't do me any good but I wear one because they tell me to. In stores around here nobody kicks you out if you're not wearing one. The auto parts store, the hardware store and a lot of other places don't enforce mask wearing in many of the employees don't wear masks. When the governor mandated that everyone must wear a mask, our county sheriff's and police departments refuse to enforce the state mandate. Vaccinations don't stop transmissions of Covid, so in reality the mandates are forcing people to protect their own self and no one else. The only purpose of the vaccine is to keep people

I think most people are just done with the whole Covid thing. I know I am. Pretty much every thing we’ve been told about it is BS, politically/ financially motivated or just made up on the fly because what we’ve been told keeps changing. Give it two weeks (two years later). Take the shot and you’re safe (now you need a booster, second booster, third and a fourth). Wear a mask. Don’t wear a mask. Wear a mask again. Quarantine for two weeks. Quarantine for 5 days. The shot isn’t that effective. People that get repeated shots have weakened immune systems (now you are a customer for life as if you weren’t already). The tests are inaccurate. The best one is I just heard on the tv the other day that if you’re a health care worker (in AZ) and you are asymptomatic then you don’t need to quarantine at all and can continue to work as long as you wear a mask. If they don’t have to quarantine then why do I? Look at Israel, Japan, India and the success or failure they’ve had. How about infection rates in states with heavy restrictions and mask mandates compared to those in ‘freedom’ states.

Can you now see why people don’t care.

I have a beard so how well do you think a mask affects me or 30% of the men in the town I live in. Everybody just wears the blue mask. I don't think I've seen data that proves masks are effective anyway. Our governor mandated that everyone and every business require people to wear masks. Our county sheriff and I think our local police departments both stated that they will not enforce the law.
They publicly came out against the mandate because they don't believe it's constitutional. They're not against wearing masks, they're against the government forcing people to wear masks.
With all the limitations, all the shutdowns, all of the businesses and lives destroyed because of the government's rules, how come the infection rate hasn't gone down? How come covid has not disappeared?
The vaccinations have probably helped the first version of Covid to morph off into more version, versions that aren't affected by the vaccine. The latest version of covid is weaker and the hospitalization rates are much lower if you catch it.
People are simply tired of this thing and have decided to get on with their life.
Did I just hear that New York started putting out the true covid rates in hospitals?
They tried to make it look bad by saying there was a thousand people in the hospital because of covid.
Now it's not a thousand it's only 500 or 400? Well how can that be?
It appears that there were actually 1,000 people in the hospital that had covid. What they didn't tell you is that 600 people went into the hospital for reasons unrelated to covid such as broken legs or a heart attacks, but everyone that went into the hospital was of course tested for covid.
If you broke your leg and went into the hospital and tested positive for covid...... They implied that you were in the hospital because of covid and they counted you as a covid case.
Just one more reason why you can't trust the government, nor the hospitals.
You see, if you went into the hospital because of covid, they get a big fat check. If you go into the hospital for a broken leg, they don't get a covid check. The hospitals aren't stupid, they're just crooks.
When I go to stores or other places and I've touched door knobs and push doors open or whatever I realize that covid could be transmitted that way quite easily.
When I get back out to my truck I swish a little 90% rubbing alcohol on my hands and.....
......and get on with my life. May not work forever, but I've got to make some sort of a living so I go to work when I got work.
Since covid rearrd it's ugly head, I've probably stopped at a minimum of two places every single day since then. Today I only stopped at 4 stores and visited a friend of mine for a couple of hours after taking my battery charger over there in hopes of reviving the battery in his 1970 Z28.
On a typical day I'll stop at the Carpet One store, and the warehouse, the grocery store and one convenience store..... That's probably been my average for the last couple of years. I probably should have gotten covid 10 times in that span with my horrible behavior.
I guess I'm bulletproof till I get shot.

 

[C.J.]

Vaccinating during a pandemic IS what is causing all the new strains to emerge and is why this will never end.

 

[Floorist]

My wife is doing good after her surgery, but goes back next Wed, for another one. So far today, I have walked the dog, fed her and the cat, fixed my wife breakfast, did laundry, took the bath seat back that we borrowed(the one I bought came in yesterday). did dishes and went to the post office and mailed a package to my stepson. And it is almost noon.

 

[highup]

When they started listing heart attack and car accident victims deaths as covid deaths simply because they were tested positive....
That's kind of when people started not trusting the government or the hospitals.
Trump getting all the blame for covid exploding in this country and is the vaccine rolled out Trump was about to be replaced by Biden.
The Biden administration and the media said Trump had no distribution plan and he is screwing this up and they were going to save us and get this thing under control. The Biden administration bragged about their progress on the number of doses everybody was getting. Record numbers a vaccinations. Yahoo we're going to get this control!
......okee dokee, that's not working so good so now we need booster shots...... Maybe more than one of them?
There are medical professionals that disagree with the immunization process and the information from the CDC. They are not allowed to speak because you can't find them on Google and they're not allowed to talk on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter or they get banned.
Just banning the discussion pisses off a lot of us. I want to hear both sides. So what's happening, more speculation and more distrust because we're not allowed to hear anything but what the government or the liberal media allows us to hear. It's extremely frustrating not being able to trust the main sources of information because the output is predetermined by censorship.
The CDC changed the definition of vaccine, and the smoke and mirrors, dog and pony show continues to create distrust.
https://www.citizensjournal.us/the-cdc-suddenly-changes-the-definition-of-vaccine-and-vaccination/Masks at first were not effective, then we needed to have masks.
Then we needed the m95 mask.
It's it's a rarity when I see one of those. I have a beard and I'm not shaving mine so my mask is a waste of time but I'm required to wear one.
Fouchi sai doubling up on the masks is even better.
At first you were supposed to quarantine for 14 days and then they changed it to 10 and what is it now? Four or five..... Six?
From the very beginning it's obvious they're just making stuff up and every time they get it wrong they change the rules.
That's the reason I simply go on with my life. I haven't changed anything that I do in my daily life with the exception of wearing a mask when I go to the grocery store. I wear a mask in other businesses where I see the employees and other people wearing a mask, but many places don't give a rat's ass if you were one or not.
I've always carried a bottle of alcohol in my car and I do splash some on my hands because I think that's the most effective way to not get covid..... We handle a lot of things and we touch our face and pick our nose hand rubber eyes so..... For additional protection, I think it's best to wash the covid from the inside out with alcohol too, because covid appears to be very smart and by putting alcohol on the inside of the body..... well, I just think Covid wouldn't expect that to happen. If covid is going to be sneaky then I'm going to be sneaky

 

[highup]

My wife is doing good after her surgery, but goes back next Wed, for another one. So far today, I have walked the dog, fed her and the cat, fixed my wife breakfast, did laundry, took the bath seat back that we borrowed(the one I bought came in yesterday). did dishes and went to the post office and mailed a package to my stepson. And it is almost noon.

I put a bunch of jeans in the washing machine and I'm on my second cup of coffee.
Reading all about you've done so far today has made me tired and I think I'll just go back to sleep.
Your wife is a lucky woman!

 

[Floorist]

Just got back from doing grocery shopping. My son has dr appt this afternoon for me to take him to. Then home to fix supper.

 

[highup]

Just got back from doing grocery shopping. My son has dr appt this afternoon for me to take him to. Then home to fix supper.

I'd like some pizza. Hand tossed if that's not an inconvenience.