Random Facts #54

love instant karma....the tips are cut to keep weight off the stems while the cutting is in the delicate rooting stage....less for the plant to worry about...... and also to fit many cuttings in half the area

 

Hubby said he was impressed with my work!

 

ive been consistently waking at 2 through 4 am lately....I stay up for an hour...catch the news...have a coffee and a little puff and back to sleep for an hour

 

Dude...

 

So, since we have no silicon and only $88 dollars until the 3rd, I'm going to put the plumber's putty under the edge of the sink and prop the bottle up under the p-trap again. It'll be better than it was now that I have the brace board in place and something is under the edge of the sink.

Come pay day, I'll undo it all again and put the silicon down after I knock the porcelain edge off at the rust, brush it, smooth it, and seal the top rust damaged edge with epoxy.

I guess I'm going to have to get on all the repairs around here no matter how much he protests and tells me to wait so he can do it.

 

this is cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeAM1vwEcFg

 

The sink is set in.

Now, we're messing with the threads on the water lines. We cleaned them with some spray on alcohol because the felt gritty even when I was taking them off. There is a little less slack in the hot water line because it hadn't much slack to begin with and now the thick line of putty I put is making the back of the sink sit up a little.

So, now we're taking turns trying to get the damn female end started on the male stub on the pipe. I told him to hand me the bottle of wine and I'd sit down there and get calm and fuck with the tedious thing until I got it. Still, he wants his try at it with his pitiful hands he can't feel.

 

This may be a dumb question but are you guys sure you're turning them the right way? It's sometimes easy to get it backwards when it's upside down and in an odd spot. Turn the female end slowly in the wrong direction until you feel the ends of the threads separate...then you know you're at the beginning of the threads....turn the other way slowly.

 

Just got done watering the gardens. My wife has done such a nice job planning and planting our gardens for years. It takes a few years to get stuff established and mature but...once it is...wow. She has so many beautiful flowers out here. Some are 4-5 feet across with 4-5 ft. tall blooms.

But I get to be the person who waters it all. I guess that's not so bad though. It gives me a chance to really stop and pay attention to it all.

 

I'm done and no leaks.

I fucking rock.

 

My oldest son's birthday is Saturday (the one who works for me full-time). I told him to not forget that we're getting off work early tomorrow so we can go pick up my birthday gift to him. I don't know why I am amused to convey conversations this way...but I'll do it again...

Him: You have to give me a hint.
Me: You'll hate it...for a while.
Him: That isn't much of a hint. What kind of place is it?
Me: A place that sells stuff.
Him: What kind of place? What materials are the products made from?
Me: Atoms.
Him: You seriously fucking suck at hints! <walks away>
Me: Hahahahahaha!

I'm going to buy him some Redwing logger-sole boots tomorrow for work because I'm tired of seeing him in the shitty boots he wears which are really not very safe for what he does. Redwings are brutal to break in for the first month but they are awesome for years after that. That means I have at least a month of amusement coming. He will bitch.

 

you would not believe the number of lawnmowers i get with blades upside down and/or backwards

id have to say its a steady 30 to 40%

 

I wouldn't doubt you at all.

 

Which way to turn the switch on the ceiling fan still trips me up.

 

it used to drive me nuts always putting the wrong earbud in my ear

until i put a small knot in the left one

 

I bend a higher percentage of blades than that... But they were installed correctly at first.

 

I thought the clock on the bedside table said almost Noon.

I made coffee and drank part of it before I started looking at other clocks.

I'm up way to early for having gone to bed at 4:45 this morning.

 

I found the problem.

The alarm clock was lying on its side when I was trying to read it.

 

This doesn't happen everyday. We had a little run-in with a semi-truck...literally. We were working on a gravel road, just west of a "T" intersection. A semi pulling a flatbed with a loader on it drove past us from the west. We were just setting up so I pulled the outrigger up to give him a little more room to pass (kind of a narrow road). He passed us, turned south and stopped. We continued setting up and I went up in the bucket to get to work. A few minutes later the semi starts backing up. I'm watching him and wondering what he's doing because there is no way he's going to make the corner to go back past us. I have no idea why he thought he could but as soon as I realized he was going to try, I started folding the boom up so we could move. No big deal.

Well, he tries it anyway...while I'm still in the air. He obviously doesn't know how to drive a truck or use his mirrors because if he did, he wouldn't have ran into our trailer with his trailer. The boom kind of rocked a bit but I was watching this from above so I wasn't caught off guard. I came down and he got out of his truck and made some comment like "Way to take up the whole damn road!" under his breath. I was just about to say "That's the attitude you want to start this fucking conversation with?" but just as I said "That's.." he apologized. Then he looked at the damage and said it didn't look too bad to him. I said "Yeah man....except for my fucked up fender and the gash in the side wall of my tire!"

Long story short....I basically told him I wasn't worried about the fender but that I was taking the trailer to my tire guy. If he said it was ok then it's all good. If he said it needed to be replaced....then I want a new tire (my tire was basically new, they aren't regular tires....they're pretty heavy duty and kind of expensive). We exchanged info, took pics, etc. I went to the tire shop and it needed to be replaced. I have to say....I called the dudes boss and he was completely cool about everything and had them bill his company for the new tire.

So....I kind of got hit by a semi today....as lightly as you could hope for if you get hit by a semi.

 

i remember sitting in my buds car. when this tractor/t made a wide right and the trailer went over my buds car.. it was a pos anyway, but not the point. then the trucking company is like we got a sticker on the back that says we make wide right turns. asshole truck come on us, we didnt come up on him. my bud won the case.. but wtf?????????