I met with a new contractor guy. hec/tor. we had a look at the roof work my neighbor did. it’s not as bad as I thought; it’s worse. my neighbor did about 5 different things wrong on that porch roof. he didn’t even slope the gutter right. the gutter is full of rain right now.

hec/tor quoted me a price for re-doing the porch roof, painting the entire front facade of the house, painting the front porch floor and ceiling, and removing an interior wall (moving the electricals, removing the wall and patching). the price he quoted me is so low that if he can deliver, it will dull the pain inflicted by my neighbor.

I have not glimpsed my neighbor since he did that roof. I used to run into him daily. sometimes twice daily. there is not much point in my bringing it up with him. I’m not willing to let him try to fix it.

I woke up on the side of the bed. it was a paperclip. I fixed the sink. picnic table progress interrupted by recent rains but I have 1 1/2 benches done. wood glue turns to goop in the rain. not for outdoor use. I bought a weed whacker. specifically an 18V Black & Decker Grasshog.
misadventure with the connectivity yesterday.
some tidying and cleaning I did also. there is a mouse. intel indicates he eats the crumbs from the toaster and turns them into intel that he leaves on the counter near the toaster.
indoor plants have been what was missing.

Chocolate lovers ‘are more depressive’, say experts

I believe it but it must also be pointed out that chocolate is very tasty.

I realized today I’m extremely deficient in houseplants and this makes the place a bit empty and plantless.  I have a couple plants in the kitchen, but there is much space for large plants in the living areas and such.

I bought a big plant for the office. A schefflera arboricola. the tag says it can grown to 4 feet. wikipedia says up to 4 meters.

plants will help reduce noise a little and add something that isn’t a rectangle.  round things out.  color.

pimpin aint easy.

yeah

yeah.  that’s the L shaped ladder.  l shaped. Letter

I sit in the outside in, the wet dog sky.   the little spikes of dirty blue in the none canopy, past day.

expanse

My life is a weird day. I build a picnic table. Yesterday I didn’t know I would but, I got the lumber. It happens. I found a plan on the World Wide Web. Last night in the basement, I made the cuts for one of the benches. Detached benches.

When I talk about my middle finger, I’m not just trying to add to the legend of my finger. I’m not just trying to hype my middle finger higher and higher.  It heals very slowly if at all.  There must be a little fracture in there.  Maybe a bone spur.

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I’m sometimes angry at my neighbor for proverbially shitting on my porch roof. That’s what I feel like when I look at that crappy step flashing. Sans counter flashing.  The stupid black caulk on the crappy silver flashing. I think man, I just paid my neighbor to take a big shit on my roof.  It’s just that things take a while to occur to me.  So I looked at the job with him after it was done and I said hmmm are you sure that’s right? etc.  Then I said OK and paid him.  Well, it’s a good thing I learned that about him before I hired him to do, anything else.  Still, I’ll have to hire someone else to fix it.  Or I’ll have to fix it.   I should probably just do it.  All I need is an angle grinder.  $60.  And the flashing.  And I do have some other pointing to do, so I’ll need that grinder.  Do I want to bother with the dustless attachment?  Dust in the wind.  All we are is dust in the wind.

Coffee is brewing.

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Do you know what the material costs are for a 92″ picnic table with detached benches?  Guess.  Guess.  About $85, including stain.

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Oh, I put a splotch of sample paint on the wall in here.  The color is Hazy Sage.  I wish the colors didn’t have names because they distract me.  The names do.  I don’t know about this Hazy Sage color.  It’s better than what’s here, but it’s not optimal I don’t think.    Yeah the names distract me.  I’ll see a color I think is OK, and then I’ll read that it’s called Nutmeg.  Then I’ll think I can’t use it because it sounds like something for a grandmother.    Isn’t nutmeg extinct.  That would be a good color.  Extinction.

it’s like playing professional baseball. As soon as you think you have it figured out and are going to coast for a while, you get traded to the Baltimore Orioles. And/or drafted by the Raiders.

That’s not a Bo Jackson reference. I wish Bo Jackson were my neighbor. I want him to do my remodeling. I bet he’d be good at it. He works on a ranch. As do a lot of rich people. What does that say. When people get rich they buy a big park where they can do as much manual labor as they want. Where they’ll never run out of chores.

I was going to say it’s Thursday, but it’s not. It’s Friday. Nutty.

I did a little landscaping just now. All my plants are in the ground now. All are doing well except one of the two phlox. But that one is still hanging on.

I’ve been snapping a few pictures as I go to document progress, sort of.

my measurables are pretty good this morning.  I got an egg/cheddar coissant and hash brown from the carryout place.  they know me by my voice when I call.

Tasty:

I like the French Vanilla.