So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

[Lamb]

Yo all sup there man? How are you today? I’ve just had leftover pizza with lemon iced tea for lunch again today. As it’s too hot to go outside, I’m just resting in bed before retiring to bed tonight.

Mmm leftover pizza! I might be making pizzas today for dinner.

 

[tango]

I like pizza. Sometimes we make them using naan breads as a base - they work pretty well and we can have a pizza each. Usually a regular pizza base is big enough that it's too much for one, but one isn't quite enough for both of us.

This afternoon we're going to our favorite brewpub with a couple of good friends. Looking forward to that. I hope I can get some steps in beforehand, although thanks to this massive Garmin outage my tracker isn't synching with anything. It can't even show me the data from today on my phone. It's ridiculous - it's got nearly 70MB of "user data" on my phone but can't do anything unless it can check in with the server. Really bad programming there.

 

[Naiwen]

Hi sup there? How’s it going so far with your day? I’ve just had a nice and quiet walk outside on the road by home. Have done my meditation, breathing exercises and yoga outside too. Finally, I’ve had my 3 hours weekly therapy. Tonight, am too exhausted to do anything else but relaxing in bed till putting myself to sleep.

 

[Lamb]

Going out to the garden to pick more veggies.

 

[tango]

Great afternoon with friends yesterday at the brewpub. They have a new beer which is really good, as well as a bunch of other beers I like. They are good enough that it's something of a decision which one to have next - if I had one of everything I like there my bill would be horrendous, not to mention the effect of that much alcohol. Usually my wife drives to the brewpub, on the rare occasions that I drive it really can be a challenge to decide on a beer, when it's not a simple matter of having another one next.

This morning I've got a funeral to do at church. The deceased wasn't a member of our church but their home church couldn't host it, so we are hosting it. Their minister is leading, and from what I hear there could be a lot of people there.

 

[Naiwen]

Yo sup guys? I’ve just taken a shower and a hair wash. As it’s too hot and humid to go outside again today, I’m just staying cool inside before tucking myself to bed tonight.

 

[Naiwen]

Hey sup all? Because it’s still too hot and muggy to go outside, today I’m just relaxing inside before bedtime tonight.

 

[tango]

Couple of errands today, then our routine walk around town. Finally it looks like Garmin's systems are at least mostly working, so I'm wondering how long it will take my watch to sync and download six days worth of data. So far it's tortuously slow, but at least it's working. I suspect a couple of challenges I entered and qualified for will be missed because their systems went belly up, but that's a minor annoyance.

Next up is some time in the room I'm working on. I can't work in there for very long because it faces the sun and gets quite warm, and don't want to be running an air conditioner in there because I need the power for my power tools. Although it gets warm it stays much cooler than it used to - before I put the insulation in the walls it got unbearably hot in there, whereas now it gets a bit sweaty but for work that isn't physical it would at least be bearable. I needed an 8000BTU air conditioner to keep it cool, but that was oversized so it was still humid in there when the cooling cut out. Now I think a 5000BTU unit will cool it, and also keep the humidity under control (as well as the cost of the electricity bill).

This time of year it's nice to walk in the twilight. On Sunday evening I went for a walk - my wife didn't want to walk in the fading light - and it was beautiful to walk along a quiet road watching the fireflies lighting up over the fields of crops. Because there's not a whole lot of light out I dug out my neon yellow shirt to wear. In the winter I have a blaze orange sweatshirt but it's way too warm to be wearing that.

 

[Lamb]

Going to get groceries before it gets hot outside.

 

[Naiwen]

Yo guys sup! Because it’s pouring cats and dogs outside, today, I’m just enjoying my new Chinese TV show “Meteor Garden 2018” in bed on Netflix till dozing off tonight.

 

[tango]

A nice long but gentle walk this morning. My wife decided to stay out of the sun so I experimented with a slightly different route to my normal path, which was a really nice walk but turned out shorter than I expected. It came in a whisker under 8 miles and I'd been hoping it would be closer to 10.

Then I got some more work done in the room under construction. I've got my router set up and put a pretty edge on what will become the windowsills, and then ran my sander over them to break the remaining corners and smooth it all off. Now I'm taking a quick break in the fresher air (lots of sawdust from the sander and router!) and then hopefully I can get some more pieces cut to length and width. Maybe tomorrow I can start staining them all. That would be really nice.

 

[Lamb]

Going to the Dollar Tree to get a spray bottle. There are moldy spores on some of the leaves on my plants in the garden and I read that a mixture of milk and water works better than chemicals.

 

[tango]

My plan to finish cutting wood last night was thwarted by a power outage. For a time I wished I'd upgraded my miter saw to the battery-powered one so I could have done some more work while I still had daylight, but without my fans running in the window it was getting sweaty in there. So things move out by another day....

 

[Naiwen]

Hi all, how are you today? This morning, been outside taking a nice and quiet little walk on the road by my home today because it’s a beautiful and sunny day today. Finally a much cooler and less humid day after the thunderstorm last night and yesterday afternoon. The afternoon, just enjoying my usual TV show on Netflix in bed before hitting the pillow tonight.

 

[Naiwen]

Happy Friday all! Today just enjoying my usual TV show before bedtime tonight.

 

[tango]

I've got almost all the pieces of wood I need marked and cut to size. The only one that remains is because there's a knot right in the middle of where I want to cut it, and I'd really rather not have the knot at all. I'm going to run my jigsaw through it and see what happens and, if needs be, go and get a different piece of wood to use. It's relatively cheap white pine so a new board is only going to run to maybe $4-5. If the knot falls out I think I'll just work with it anyway and look to replace it with nicer yellow pine some time further down the line.

I also figured that I don't need as big a faceplate for my two switches as I first thought so I can hopefully use something off the shelf rather than having to get busy with a router to make one myself. That will make a big difference. With any luck I can get the last few bits done and then think about lacquering the floor. I just don't want to be lacquering the floor if it's likely to rain because I want the windows open for ventilation and if it starts to rain I can't exactly walk across the wet lacquer to close the windows.

 

[NewCreation435]

Going to see some clients today and then having dinner with friends later at an Italian place

 

[Naiwen]

Happy weekend all! Today just relaxing inside before heading the sack tonight.

 

[tango]

It turned out cutting through the knot was easy. I ran the jigsaw to within an inch or so of it, took the chance to reposition my board, and then ran it slowly through the knot. It threw out a bit of dark sawdust, much darker than the near-white dust from the rest of the board, and then carried on like the knot wasn't even there. Which was nice. And the side that faces out doesn't have any part of the knot showing, which is even nicer. So tomorrow I can dig out the rest of the window trim from the attic, and make a start on staining and lacquering. I'll need to do a bit of cleaning up first, I've got quite a lot of tools in that room that I've been using.

I think I can shift the oscillating tool back to the basement but need most of the rest of the tools a while longer. I'm really looking forward to getting my miter saw out of there and back onto its stand in the basement. I can't do that until I've cut the side pieces to length - where I've had to retrim the windows the trim across the top is dropping by about 3/4", and the new window sills are thicker than the old ones, so the side pieces will need to be shortened by probably about 1 1/4". I hope I can do that without dinging the finish. Maybe I'll run a craft knife over the visible side and use tape to limit the chip-out.

 

[Lamb]

Woke up late so now it's too muggy to walk outside. I was up a lot during the night texting my daughter so I needed to sleep in.