So... What are YOU doing? - Part 5

[tango]

This afternoon I stuffed a load of fiberglass into spaces where I think I've got heat leaks. I also found one of my basement windows is held in place with little more than friction. It was a surprise when I managed to pry it open and it came out in my hands. So I cleared the accumulated crud from around it, put it back in place, screwed it securely into place, taped up the cracks in it, and plasted caulking all around to seal the gaps. The plan is to replace it, and I think I'm going to bring the replacement forward because it's really not good seeing that.

On a positive note, having fiddled with it I'm not seeing it stand out so clearly on my thermal camera. I also realised one possible reason for why my wall appears much warmer than my next door neighbor's wall under similar conditions. My wall is stone, and catches sunlight for several hours before the sun goes down. On that basis it's not surprising it's several degrees warmer than my neighbor's shaded wall covered in plastic siding. It doesn't explain why some parts are 10 degrees warmer than others, but those are the parts I can investigate further.

What triggered the realisation was when I noticed my steps were much warmer than I expected, and they are far enough from the house that there's no way a heat leak could be responsible. Thinking about why they should be so warm I suddenly realised they get heated by the sun for several hours. I'm going to go back out in a few hours, once the cold air has had chance to take off the heat from the sun, and see how things look then.

 

[Imalive]

Saturday we had Santa at my sisters house. She's a doctor. She studied 10 years or so for that. All her friends are heart surgeons or whatever specialist doctors who studied even longer. One is a foot specialist. Her feet hurt. He said she needed an operation. So she explains us what he said and I says: oh thats nonsense! I had that when I was pregnant. Just take some magnesium.
No response, a blank stare.
Muhahahahaha now all of a sudden I realize why she didnt take me serious LOL. Once I told a doctor in a hospital: nohooo he has no astma. he has pneumonia. you give the wrong meds. his dad said so.
Oh, she says, well if dad said so I might as well hang my books and instruments in the willows.
Bahahahaha arrogance or assurance. He was right though. God told him. lol.

 

[tango]

I'm having a lazy morning, finishing off my morning coffee, thinking I might go for a walk in the woods once I'm done.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

I've got another bronchial infection. I was struck with it last night and now I'm trying to keep my mind focused on other things while taking tea, cough medicine and such like that to get over this.

 

[Andrew]

I started feeling sick last night too, started throwing up and got dehydrated and a bad migraine... stayed home and now im worried about getting fired. I ran up my pto the first week of the year because of an emergency gallbladder removal so every sick day after that is a strike against me, on the good side im feeling better I just hate the stigmatism of missing work and not being able to get a hold of them (they changed call in system and I forgot to lock the number in my phone).

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[tango]

I decided to hold off on going for a walk until the weather is nicer (probably Wednesday). So I went to church and brought the computer home. It died spectacularly right before Sunday morning's service, so I've got it at home ready for some surgery. I also have a shiny new hard drive ready to put in it. Here's hoping the job is as simple as a hard drive swap...

 

[Lamb]

Going for a walk. I made lasagna to be cooked for dinner!! Tomorrow I'm doing the ravioli. We'll have so much food in the freezer for the holidays! LOL

 

[Lamb]

I started feeling sick last night too, started throwing up and got dehydrated and a bad migraine... stayed home and now im worried about getting fired. I ran up my pto the first week of the year because of an emergency gallbladder removal so every sick day after that is a strike against me, on the good side im feeling better I just hate the stigmatism of missing work and not being able to get a hold of them (they changed call in system and I forgot to lock the number in my phone).

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I just read this. I hope you're feeling better!

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

I just got back from watching the Martin Luther documentary Martin Luther, an Idea that Changed the World. The guys at church were having a viewing of it. Brown bag lunch and watching the movie in the Fellowship Hall. It was pretty good. Mind you, I thought it was pretty curious when Luther was talking to people in English and they were replying to him in German. Didn't quite get that one.

 

[tango]

Got a couple of bits from the hardware store. I've got an old electrical outlet that needs to be replaced (it's currently disconnected, because it was powered by ancient wires and I cut the wires off as part of a different piece of work). I wanted to put a new socket in nearby but wasn't sure how best to get cables through the huge joists, and suddenly realised that the way that part of the house is structured makes it much easier than I expected. It's a nice change for a piece of work to be easier than I expected, doesn't seem to happen very often. Now I just need to decide which circuits everything wants to be on. At present I've got 7 sockets in the room - 3 are disconnected and the other 4 are on three different circuits, which is just silly.

 

[tango]

2 craft shows in two days. Now I'm done for Christmas, so I can take some more leisurely time and get back to my house. Before long I'll be ordering a huge stack of insulation panels and getting those installed. That should keep me out of trouble for a while...

 

[Lamb]

Watching Christmas movies.

 

[NewCreation435]

I've been watching football most of the day. Philadelphia beat the Ram and now Steelers are playing Baltimore. It snowed this weekend and the school has a two hour delay tomorrow morning.

 

[Lamb]

I've been watching football most of the day. Philadelphia beat the Ram and now Steelers are playing Baltimore. It snowed this weekend and the school has a two hour delay tomorrow morning.

How much snow did you get for a 2 hour delay? It's funny because where I live now school is always called off. Where I grew up they only called off for blizzards! I think school was called off maybe 3 or times in my life! Even for below zero weather we had to go walk to the bus to go to school.

I'm going to be doing Christmas shopping today.

 

[tango]

How much snow did you get for a 2 hour delay? It's funny because where I live now school is always called off. Where I grew up they only called off for blizzards! I think school was called off maybe 3 or times in my life! Even for below zero weather we had to go walk to the bus to go to school.

I'm going to be doing Christmas shopping today.

The way a friend of mine talks it sounds like the slightest chance of snow is all it takes to have school cancelled. It doesn't seem like that long ago that school went ahead and if one or two kids couldn't get in they were expected to catch up on the work they missed. I wonder how parents are supposed to deal with a situation where they unexpectedly have to look after their children at very short notice, when their employers had the crazy idea they might show up for work or something.

 

[tango]

I'm going to be pulling some pieces of wall apart in my attic. I found a few cold spots between the attic and the main house, where the insulation obviously isn't insulating very well. Hopefully a strip of fiberglass will put paid to the cold spots.

 

[Imalive]

Sitting in the train. Someone was crunching chips, so I moved elsewhere.

 

[tango]

Didn't get as much done as I hoped. I did finally manage to remove a strip of wood beside my attic stairs, set in place and nailed so tightly it wouldn't move in any direction. Thankfully I found a tool that could get behind it and cut the nails so I could slide it up and out. It was interesting trying to manhandle a piece of jagged wood about 12 feet long up a staircase and across the attic without destroying anything in the process.

I got a bit more wall taken down but had to be more careful than usual, since it was spilling dust and cellulose into an area we're currently using. Thankfully Mr Shop Vac was on hand to remove the troublesome mess afterwards.

When I realised I was running out of time (got other things I need to do this afternoon) I had to just cut a piece of fiberglass to put into the space I created.

After all this I still haven't figured out where the cable I'm hunting actually runs. I've got a nasty feeling it might be in a tiny space behind the door frame. If that is where it runs I'm just going to reroute it... putting it there is just silly.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

I'm fighting a losing battle with my own fatigue. Off for a nap.

 

[tango]

I think I might need to cut a new lid for my makeshift cyclonic separator. The suction provided by the shop vac is fairly impressive (it's a big one but it's old) but the suction at the business end of the hose connected to the separator isn't particularly impressive, all things considered. It's functional but, to coin the phrase, I want more. Much more. It works well enough for sucking cellulose out of my crawl spaces (which was its primary purpose) but it just doesn't measure up when trying to clean up a mess consisting of cellulose, plaster, plaster dust, and sawdust.

Perhaps it's time to pay a visit to my friend with the more comprehensive woodworking shop to have him cut something made to measure precisely.