Yesterday was pretty mellow.
I replaced the door handle on the side door. It was not too hard since most of the holes. Its good when holes are in the same spot. I just had to whittle away some of the wood to make the door flush. The back lock installed fine when I just used the older door lock mechanism. It was good to be able to do that stuff on my own. Jon did come over to assist with the back lock
Janet came by to pick up her mail that had been piling up. She said she had a bad cold for most of December. She gave her mailing address so we can now just forward her mail.
Well, taking the bus for the first time in 2 weeks. This should be interesting and I get to deal with my supervisor and TONS of carfare I could not get done due to the overwhelming amount of interviews I had last week. I was to take today off but, I need this day to try to catch up. You know us LAZY public employees!
Here is a video I took this morning. Enjoy!!
Well, I wrote up a nice long entry and then Internet Explorer froze up and then deleted all the text and blogger auto-saved the blank page. I think it the program Zemanta that seems to make Internet Explorer freeze up but this is the first time an ENTIRE entry got wiped out. What a pain in the butt!!
Ok, now to the real reason I am writing. Today I took on a home repair job that needed to be taken care of. The roof and the area at our side door need work. There is a small leak which has compromised the paint and in some areas the wood as well.
I started with the job of patching the roof. This roof will need replacing but hopefully this will hold out. I started sometime between 10:30 and 11am this morning to try to avoid the hottest part of the day. I tried one window to avoid having to turn off the AC in the other window but it was a bit too hairy so I had to put every thing back and removed the AC anyway. I covered the creases and some bad looking areas of the roof. Just when I finished, the sun started to shine on me and boy did it start getting really broiling with all that roof tar that surrounded me. I managed not to get the tar all over the place and I just had enough paint thinner to get the tar off my hands which was cool.
Next project was scraping the old paint that was starting to peel off. As you can see from the photos and the movie, the paint was in real bad shape and some of the wood is starting to rot. I used a professional -grad paint scraper that Steve lent me. This thing really did a nice job in getting the paint off. I could not for the life of me find a tarp to cover up the cement. I was attempting to avoid a real mess of tiny paint chips. I ended up using a poncho, a discarded fitted sheet and two large plastic bags. They worked pretty well but there was still a lot of stuff on the ground and I then decided to use the vaccum cleaner. That was an inpired idea since the nozzle sucked up all the bits that fell intto the cracks. I then put things back and took a nice cold clean shower.
We may go to Bogart's Books and see Adelante tonite. If we do, I will record it as long a s I have permission from the band.
Well, as for pet sitting, we are competiting with 12 year old kids. I lost some work I just heard from an industrious neighborhood kid. Man cutthought capitolism...
My sister is due to arrive in Phlly tomorrow. I have not heard from anybody as of 7pm today about what the arraingments. I made calls and nobody answered. Carolyne is not home from her yoga training and its 7pm. None of her classes have ever gone overtime. Have not heard from her either. Well, frankly I am tired of the flaky way the browser is acting, so I am gonna stop now.
