Mitchell may predict doom and strife over remodeling but this is going well.
Downstairs the ceiling was due to fail. It got some attention.
Upstairs (our new room) the walls and ceiling needed to go so we could put in insulation behind the lath and plaster – and that cheap shitty particleboard they put over the top of it. It’s awful stuff.
Spaced Diode is going to come over Saturday and let me do all the work but he’ll tell me what to hook up to what in order to have my house not burn down. Yes, it looks like a scene from HellRaiser. We’ll put a few switches in on another circuit, drop a junction box, and destroy as much as we can get our hands on.
Here is Melody Song, lookin bigger badder and rougher than ever before – 2-1/2 lbs of pure ass-kicking dynamite. Yes, she steals from the bigger cats (15lbs and 14lbs) while they are eating. She knows she’s got them cowed. My nickname for Melody is is LBB (Little Black Bitch).
Ferrofluid, which I saw up close and personal and am going to make when I am able…
It’s my second language, but I’m pretty sure the word you are looking for is “strife”.
Awesome job on the demo and remodel! And Teh Kitteh is still cute.
Ferrofluid? Wow…
** fixed that. Thanks. – LK
Yeah, ferrofluid. Kids museums have all the cool stuff!
No kidding!! Is this what will be included in the kidlets’ stockings?? 😀
Oh heck no. Nanoparticles all over the house… Uck.
Spoilsport…
If I manage to make some I promise I will share the results and you can make what amounts to liquid toner in gallon sizes. Perfect for super-soaker fights all over the house.
Like I’m going to tell the kids to play with that in the house.
I’ll tell them to play with it near Hubby’s car.
I need to make some of the ferro fluid.
If you have ferric chloride, steel wool, ammonia, etc. you are only a hop skip jump away. I want to see how difficult it would be to go the acetone and cassette tape route. Might take a ton of acetone.
I kept getting a systems error while trying to click on your site.
I blame Teh Kitteh.
Systems error huh? You commented successfully… Is it intermittent then?
Just a brief glitch. I still blame her, though.
So now we know why blogging has been light. You take care and don’t get hurt. You’ve taken on a big task, good luck.
Love the ferrofluids. IIRC, they’re mostly extremely ground ferric oxide in suspended in a light oil-like mixture. Check this out for more:
http://chemistry.about.com/od/demonstrationsexperiments/ss/liquidmagnet.htm
Yes, the Kitty looks great.
Finally, congrats on MESSENGER finding ice. Of all places, Mercury has ice. Hard to imagine. Hell freezing over?
Not working THAT hard on it. To date CW and the contractor who leveled the floor have done the heavy lifting.
How about that, huh? Ice in hell.
Hope you are well mrmacs – we should catch up.
Now, if we can find ice on the Moon, that’d be sweet!
Glad you aren’t overworking yourself physically.
And yes, need to catch up. It’s been … challenging around here. More manyana
Ice in Hell? Dante said as much in Dante’s Inferno. So did Larry Niven in “Inferno” ( a great novel for SF & Hell aficionados) and the sequel.
Wonder what Curiosity found on Mars recently? There’s been a flap about it – and the secrecy.
Probably Hoffa….
Pyramids. But you didn’t hear it from me.
I love LK blaming his laziness on stuff and then getting sympathy. The ferrous stuff sounds cool though.
Dogs are far superior but I love a kitty who doesn’t take crap from anybody.
You were one of those guys who hated the other guys when they got all the chicks, too. If you can get the sympathy, you go with it.
My upstairs is torn up even more, has new romex, rewired and rerun, three new circuits, new lights, and thirty sheets of 1/2 rock…the laziness is nowhere in evidence.
…or the recipe for Twinkies.
Dogs? Harrumph. They routinely sniff each others ass ….no self-respect at all.
I’m afraid the ferro stuff will get magnetized and stick to my refrigerator door.
I think keeping the ferro stuff in its oil and surfactant solution implies that your’re going to be keeping it in a container.
Cats keep trying to get you to sniff their butts.
The Anal Promenade is one of their more annoying habits.
Ferrofluids are awesome. The hub got me a small bit in a flask from ThinkGeek for my birthday. I was the envy of the structural department at work.
Melody Song looks like a cute little batch of feist. 🙂
“Feisty” describes anything in my house smaller than I am, and it can be pretty annoying after a while.
The ferrofluid… if you shake it up does it make millions of little globs, some of which don’t like recombining or is the surfactant enough to allow them to recomglobulate?
I had a lava lamp at one time and made the mistake of shaking the hell out of it when the wax was hot – lots of globules the size of a pinhead that never came back together. Ruined the runny-blob effect of the lamp. Stupid stupid stupid…
No, you weren’t stupid, the shaken lava lamp taught you the principle of surface tension. Just a practical, inexpensive lesson.
It becomes globs, but most of them go back together. The ones that don’t come back fast enough to suit me are easily pulled into line with a magnet.
Lava lamps are tricky. It’s my understanding that not only is the blob-stuff some secret recipe of wax/paraffin and other oils to get a precise specific gravity, but that the bottle is “sealed” under slight pressure (or slight vacuum?) to get the floaty/sinky effect just right.
That’s why they stop doing that floaty-thing after a few years. The pressure/vacuum degrades out of the bottle-cap. I have two where the wax just melts and sits there on the bottom. And where’s the fun in that?
Naturally, I could be misinformed, though.
I never had a lava lamp. Why didn’t I ever get a lava lamp? I should get a lava lamp.
ZOMG!!! Are you screwing with me?? You NEVER had a lava lamp, Mitchell???
The Mayans were right.
Want one of mine? They don’t work, though….unless you like pet molten rocks.