Bear with this posting there’s some good nuggets of gold in it.
First, enjoy a kitten. Sure she’s not quantum tunneling at the moment but she just had her shots. I walked by her three times w/o noticing her because she blends into my jacket. She was not phasing in and out but she was running about 3 degrees above normal.
Next, the remodel. It is coming along. Spaced Diode helped me rewire the upstairs with grounded circuits after Cruel Wife nagged and nagged and nagged. “I don’t want anyone dying because there wasn’t a grounded circuit.”
Sheesh. Like electricity is that dangerous. It’s not like it has ever killed anyone or set fires or anything.
Next, enjoy some redneck wallpapering. In the oldest part I cut out plaster and lath so we could get insulation in the walls. Notice the wallpaper on the inside face of the outside wall, including the joists. This sucker was an open wall and left long enough that wallpaper was deemed a good thing. It’s like a bad episode of Redneck Rampage™. It truly is as if a layer of purty paper protected these folks from whistling cold Michigan winters.
None of this is designed to gain back readers such as Mitchell and veeshir, who are at this moment boycotting this blog because my retrieval of their remarks from Spam Hell is not quite fast enough.
Ask Cruel Wife if I am busy enough lately.
For grins, look at a mirror that I showed Cruel Wife at my company. I simply call it “My Precious”. Won’t tell you who made it, who they made it for, it’s exact specs, etc. I will say it is 24″ x 18″ x 3″ thick, flat, honeycomb inner construction, and coated for multiple wavelengths. All pictures were taken using while light back illumination but at different angles to the surface. Same piece but a dielectric Reflectivity enhancement coating looks very different from all angles. It’s complicated.
So a co-worker gets ahold of the pics I took, fires up his copy of PhotoShop (Gimp, truth be told) and tweaks it… now My Precious is truly one mirror to rule them all.
Lemurita just watched LotR with me Sunday night, saw that last image and laughed and laughed and laughed. That’s my girl.
Hey! that mirror segment looks just like a ….um….never mind. *McGoo zips lip*. Love the LotR P’Shop!
So you’re saying the previous residents were found frozen in January – probably still clutching the bogus wallpaper R-rating warranty from the installer.
I saw that stack of drywall and it reminded me of the pain from when I helped the delivery guy move 12 sheets downstairs – one at a time ’cause I can’t handle the double sheets.
You can e:mail me off to the side regarding your suspicions on the provenance of my preciousssss.
The previous residents were so butt-stupid that they could not be killed in the normal way. It took a cleric, fire, and a battle-mage just to drive them out of the house.
Me and Spaced Diode lugged those upstairs one-by-one. We did double getting them into the van and then getting them into my house, but by that point Spaced Diode had already heaved them off the cart before I was ready and dislocated my toe. He says “You gonna cry?” I said (sobbing) “No, I’m not gonna cry… that’s just the toe I jammed three days ago.” I’m fine. Never felt better. I *hate* sheetrock.
Everyone has their Precious
I totally missed Teh Kitteh THREE TIMES!!! Good lord, that’s great camouflage.
Great work with the room. I smiled at the wallpaper. It reminded me of the one we found in dad’s bathroom when my mom was remodeling it. I looked at it and said, “I don’t know what’s worse: that someone paid to have this put here, or that someone was paid to design it.”
Except for her pink ears, she blends.
Remodel – what is worse: That someone designed it, paid for it, and no one immediately ripped it out.
You win
I wish I wasn’t trying to win…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Yeah, it’s more of a losing proposition.
Check out the fancy bicycle reflector! That would look cool on my Schwinn.