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So again I meant to write a lot, but instead am going to shortcut. I don't feel overwhelmed but I do feel stupidly busy and in need of downtime I am not getting (or recognizing).
Pictures with pretty good labels: http://vicar.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/4019
I had fun writing the captions above, though they're not terribly good or interesting pictures for most I'm sure.
Ok, my life, in eljay - mostly house post.
Work, busy, but reasonable and I just had a trip the week of July 4 cancel due to a lying Complainant who pretends not to get mail by using a PO Box. I think I may have documented proof, twice, that he lied about moving. Curiously proving a Complainant is a habitual liar almost never has value in an EEOC proceeding. More about that in person if you're interested.
JULY 4 I MAY THROW A PARTY. Not really, but with Kabi's fizzball palace moving shop this year, and my trip cancelled that week, I posted in fb that I am polling for interest for a party / staging grounds at my place for July 4 fireworks again. We've done this in the past - parking sucks, and we don't go through security and up to the actual ashes-falling-on-you area, but it's a good compromise to hang back and watch the display from Iwo Jima's area.
Gym, I'm getting stronger in every area with means fuckyouMikefuckyousomuch was right about volume training. Natrually fuckyouMikefuckyousomuch is getting stronger faster than I am, but we're close enough that we're mutually motivating. Having posted a picture of my skinny teenaged self swinging nunchuckos this week in fb, it's amusing that having scrapped caring about masculinity that I am far more masculine than ever before. Beliefs and results are not the same thing in politics or masculinity it seems. Big Bad News: Chiro says that giant butt pain problem should be gone and is likely a tear - recommended consulting with an orthopedic surgeon. I may need grafts on my gums - maybe I'll take some months of my life off and go on a surgery marathon yay! NOT HAPPY. Stabbing me with knives so I can be healthy. I spent years trying to avoid it.
Ok HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE
(edited to note - I forgot a major event: I visited the house and Scott came by with his bro. We had just walked in, were standing in the kitchen when we heard an odd sound and then hissing/spray, followed quickly by water falling in water. I bolted downstairs and turned off the main water valve, to find by an insane coincidence a pipe had just completely burst while we were standing there. It had been capped off, but the cap was fine - the pipe had long-since eroded from the inside out, and as it jutted out holding it's own weight, we just happened to be in the right place when it broke off. Texted Jordan who presumably stopped by after we left. If I hadn't been there...but again again again so happy I went with a full gut job. )
Today I dropped off Janna at work and hit my house where I was going to see if I could make better headway in removing tiles from he main floor than his professionals. Sadly, I left the pile of tools at home (on reflection, there isn't much chance of me making headway in there).
- visited upstairs, Jordan says moving the frames to make the doghouse windows fully operational is no big deal even though it looks hard to me - good. I climbed up the ladder (which is easy to move) and opened the windows and screens - they are double paned after all.
- occurs to me if I'm going to make chalk pictures or statements on the walls - it's kinda now or never. Like sex, I'm finding a disjoint about what I think is a really good idea and what I'm likely to do / put effort in to. Yes, yes, that's the comparison I made.
- Floor is in place for the upstairs bathroom, poor workers are now using an outhouse balanced on my front lawn. I'm thinking more seriously about the impact I'm having on my neighbors in terms of aesthetics and noise; though Jorge's place isn't exactly a sparkling gem of a home.
- Noticed cloth-wrapped wires in the piles of old-shit-piled-up; more more more confirmation that the full gut was a good idea. I'm not sure this was the right house or the right price for the work, but the full gut? Absolutely the right decision. I know I keep reassuring myself on this issue.
- framing is starting up around the laundry, linen, closet, and Master bath. We've decided the back bedroom will be the 2nd best with any size compromise eating the middle bedroom. Middle br will be office, nursery, 3rd wheel or whatever.
- dig dug - the basement is mostly dug out now. I didn't get off my ass in time, but when it came to actually looking at taking vacation from work to dig in the dirt, I sort of balked (plus work was busy and I typically work until done before taking leave rather than planning vacations). Also, talking to the contractor made me less excited as he talked about the day laborers he'd have do work as simple as digging. Basically if I want to do any digging at all, I'm going to have to check my work schedule and take leave Monday - without prior announcement. I am writing this from my work computer which I booted to DL bb pics and check whether this is feasible or not. It was fun to stand on the giant pile of dirt in my back yard, and I played trampoline on the wheelbarrow ramp for probably too long. If my neighbors were looking...
Pictures with pretty good labels: http://vicar.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/4019
I had fun writing the captions above, though they're not terribly good or interesting pictures for most I'm sure.
Ok, my life, in eljay - mostly house post.
Work, busy, but reasonable and I just had a trip the week of July 4 cancel due to a lying Complainant who pretends not to get mail by using a PO Box. I think I may have documented proof, twice, that he lied about moving. Curiously proving a Complainant is a habitual liar almost never has value in an EEOC proceeding. More about that in person if you're interested.
JULY 4 I MAY THROW A PARTY. Not really, but with Kabi's fizzball palace moving shop this year, and my trip cancelled that week, I posted in fb that I am polling for interest for a party / staging grounds at my place for July 4 fireworks again. We've done this in the past - parking sucks, and we don't go through security and up to the actual ashes-falling-on-you area, but it's a good compromise to hang back and watch the display from Iwo Jima's area.
Gym, I'm getting stronger in every area with means fuckyouMikefuckyousomuch was right about volume training. Natrually fuckyouMikefuckyousomuch is getting stronger faster than I am, but we're close enough that we're mutually motivating. Having posted a picture of my skinny teenaged self swinging nunchuckos this week in fb, it's amusing that having scrapped caring about masculinity that I am far more masculine than ever before. Beliefs and results are not the same thing in politics or masculinity it seems. Big Bad News: Chiro says that giant butt pain problem should be gone and is likely a tear - recommended consulting with an orthopedic surgeon. I may need grafts on my gums - maybe I'll take some months of my life off and go on a surgery marathon yay! NOT HAPPY. Stabbing me with knives so I can be healthy. I spent years trying to avoid it.
Ok HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE
(edited to note - I forgot a major event: I visited the house and Scott came by with his bro. We had just walked in, were standing in the kitchen when we heard an odd sound and then hissing/spray, followed quickly by water falling in water. I bolted downstairs and turned off the main water valve, to find by an insane coincidence a pipe had just completely burst while we were standing there. It had been capped off, but the cap was fine - the pipe had long-since eroded from the inside out, and as it jutted out holding it's own weight, we just happened to be in the right place when it broke off. Texted Jordan who presumably stopped by after we left. If I hadn't been there...but again again again so happy I went with a full gut job. )
Today I dropped off Janna at work and hit my house where I was going to see if I could make better headway in removing tiles from he main floor than his professionals. Sadly, I left the pile of tools at home (on reflection, there isn't much chance of me making headway in there).
- visited upstairs, Jordan says moving the frames to make the doghouse windows fully operational is no big deal even though it looks hard to me - good. I climbed up the ladder (which is easy to move) and opened the windows and screens - they are double paned after all.
- occurs to me if I'm going to make chalk pictures or statements on the walls - it's kinda now or never. Like sex, I'm finding a disjoint about what I think is a really good idea and what I'm likely to do / put effort in to. Yes, yes, that's the comparison I made.
- Floor is in place for the upstairs bathroom, poor workers are now using an outhouse balanced on my front lawn. I'm thinking more seriously about the impact I'm having on my neighbors in terms of aesthetics and noise; though Jorge's place isn't exactly a sparkling gem of a home.
- Noticed cloth-wrapped wires in the piles of old-shit-piled-up; more more more confirmation that the full gut was a good idea. I'm not sure this was the right house or the right price for the work, but the full gut? Absolutely the right decision. I know I keep reassuring myself on this issue.
- framing is starting up around the laundry, linen, closet, and Master bath. We've decided the back bedroom will be the 2nd best with any size compromise eating the middle bedroom. Middle br will be office, nursery, 3rd wheel or whatever.
- dig dug - the basement is mostly dug out now. I didn't get off my ass in time, but when it came to actually looking at taking vacation from work to dig in the dirt, I sort of balked (plus work was busy and I typically work until done before taking leave rather than planning vacations). Also, talking to the contractor made me less excited as he talked about the day laborers he'd have do work as simple as digging. Basically if I want to do any digging at all, I'm going to have to check my work schedule and take leave Monday - without prior announcement. I am writing this from my work computer which I booted to DL bb pics and check whether this is feasible or not. It was fun to stand on the giant pile of dirt in my back yard, and I played trampoline on the wheelbarrow ramp for probably too long. If my neighbors were looking...
