Just tiptoeing through between GOTV texting sessions.....
Sounds like fun!!
I'm sitting here with the outside temp in the mid 40's and the inside temp in the mid 60's, the heat is on but set at 63F right now. Lately the day time temps have been in the mid 60's but the Sun is still high enough to warm the house up into the low 70's by by the time nighttime rolls around. In fact it's already 62F on my patio in the full 7:30am Sun.
Painting. As in house interior. I just luv doing the trim bits. Not. Finangly & fiddly. Oh and there's the surface prep before you lift a brush/roller. That's a treat. Not. But the dining room looks better than when I started, so that's something. The weather is quite warm and so the paint doesn't hesitate to dry. The color ? A soft half-strength off-white called alabaster ie. a bit like marble. Low satin sheen. Better than the puke/pus/pumpkin off-orange that preceded it. ;-)
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) I keep getting texted by some overseas guy to go and vote somewhere. Which is nice of him as there is a state legislature election this weekend, and I think I have to vote. DownUnda there is a fine for not voting, and it does get enforced. You don't have to actually vote per se, all that really matters is that your name is crossed off at the polling booth. What you do with the ballot paper is up to you. Paper aeroplanes is a good variant. This year's choice of candidates is - you guessed it - Tweedledum and Tweedledumber. Plus some minor parties ( eg. The Reasonable Sex Party* ) and independent candidates ( Tweedledee and Tweedlepee ) to add spice to the stew. Now there is a thought : I'll start up a bistro called the Voters Retreat. For all the serious wannabees. The motto will be "Don't Take It All To Seriously" ( will that last very long ? ). It will have a Whinge-Meter on the wall. I will serve over 2000 variants of coffee & cocktails. A good supply of marshmallows to lob at an opposing group. We could have Thursdays as an Open Mike night, but I fear that may be misinterpreted. A weekly prize for the most dissatisfied paying customer. I may be one of many closet anarchists. Now who then would organise us ? :-)
* Colloquial name ..... ideology somewhat left of Genghis Khan. ;=S
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Painting. As in house interior. I just luv doing the trim bits. Not. Finangly & fiddly. Oh and there's the surface prep before you lift a brush/roller. That's a treat. Not. But the dining room looks better than when I started, so that's something. The weather is quite warm and so the paint doesn't hesitate to dry. The color ? A soft half-strength off-white called alabaster ie. a bit like marble. Low satin sheen. Better than the puke/pus/pumpkin off-orange that preceded it. ;-)
Exactly why I moved out for over 3 weeks while a painter painted the whole inside of my home! He did miss a few spots, the top of the actual doors and the tops of the door frames, I'm guessing since he couldn't see them he didn't think about them.
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( edit ) I keep getting texted by some overseas guy to go and vote somewhere. Which is nice of him as there is a state legislature election this weekend, and I think I have to vote. DownUnda there is a fine for not voting, and it does get enforced. You don't have to actually vote per se, all that really matters is that your name is crossed off at the polling booth. What you do with the ballot paper is up to you. Paper aeroplanes is a good variant. This year's choice of candidates is - you guessed it - Tweedledum and Tweedledumber. Plus some minor parties ( eg. The Reasonable Sex Party* ) and independent candidates ( Tweedledee and Tweedlepee ) to add spice to the stew. Now there is a thought : I'll start up a bistro called the Voters Retreat. For all the serious wannabees. The motto will be "Don't Take It All To Seriously" ( will that last very long ? ). It will have a Whinge-Meter on the wall. I will serve over 2000 variants of coffee & cocktails. A good supply of marshmallows to lob at an opposing group. We could have Thursdays as an Open Mike night, but I fear that may be misinterpreted. A weekly prize for the most dissatisfied paying customer. I may be one of many closet anarchists. Now who then would organise us ? :-)
* Colloquial name ..... ideology somewhat left of Genghis Khan. ;=S
Cheers, Mike.
I think that's an excellent idea, certainly no more time for painting that way!! Patients in the back, politics in the front.
Painting. As in house interior. I just luv doing the trim bits. Not. Finangly & fiddly. Oh and there's the surface prep before you lift a brush/roller. That's a treat. Not. But the dining room looks better than when I started, so that's something. The weather is quite warm and so the paint doesn't hesitate to dry. The color ? A soft half-strength off-white called alabaster ie. a bit like marble. Low satin sheen. Better than the puke/pus/pumpkin off-orange that preceded it. ;-)
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) I keep getting texted by some overseas guy to go and vote somewhere. Which is nice of him as there is a state legislature election this weekend, and I think I have to vote. DownUnda there is a fine for not voting, and it does get enforced. You don't have to actually vote per se, all that really matters is that your name is crossed off at the polling booth. What you do with the ballot paper is up to you. Paper aeroplanes is a good variant. This year's choice of candidates is - you guessed it - Tweedledum and Tweedledumber. Plus some minor parties ( eg. The Reasonable Sex Party* ) and independent candidates ( Tweedledee and Tweedlepee ) to add spice to the stew. Now there is a thought : I'll start up a bistro called the Voters Retreat. For all the serious wannabees. The motto will be "Don't Take It All To Seriously" ( will that last very long ? ). It will have a Whinge-Meter on the wall. I will serve over 2000 variants of coffee & cocktails. A good supply of marshmallows to lob at an opposing group. We could have Thursdays as an Open Mike night, but I fear that may be misinterpreted. A weekly prize for the most dissatisfied paying customer. I may be one of many closet anarchists. Now who then would organise us ? :-)
* Colloquial name ..... ideology somewhat left of Genghis Khan. ;=S
I feel like I've texted the world but it's really only a few thousand folks. :-) We would never get mandatory voting in the US. Instead we have constant efforts to suppress or discourage the vote. We make it ridiculously difficult. The candidates are often unappealing and the parties lackluster because they only have to appeal to the tiny sliver of the electorate. Too many people either don't bother to vote or face obscene barriers to voting. Or they are discouraged because the person or party who wins the popular vote doesn't always win the office. I think I'd better have a cider and a bowl of marshmallows.
I always find it easier to paint someone else's abode rather than my own. So I painted my brother's porch last summer and he, well, umm, he thought about painting my living room.
Just tiptoeing through
Just tiptoeing through between GOTV texting sessions.....
Snagletooth wrote:Just
Sounds like fun!!
I'm sitting here with the outside temp in the mid 40's and the inside temp in the mid 60's, the heat is on but set at 63F right now. Lately the day time temps have been in the mid 60's but the Sun is still high enough to warm the house up into the low 70's by by the time nighttime rolls around. In fact it's already 62F on my patio in the full 7:30am Sun.
Painting. As in house
Painting. As in house interior. I just luv doing the trim bits. Not. Finangly & fiddly. Oh and there's the surface prep before you lift a brush/roller. That's a treat. Not. But the dining room looks better than when I started, so that's something. The weather is quite warm and so the paint doesn't hesitate to dry. The color ? A soft half-strength off-white called alabaster ie. a bit like marble. Low satin sheen. Better than the puke/pus/pumpkin off-orange that preceded it. ;-)
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) I keep getting texted by some overseas guy to go and vote somewhere. Which is nice of him as there is a state legislature election this weekend, and I think I have to vote. DownUnda there is a fine for not voting, and it does get enforced. You don't have to actually vote per se, all that really matters is that your name is crossed off at the polling booth. What you do with the ballot paper is up to you. Paper aeroplanes is a good variant. This year's choice of candidates is - you guessed it - Tweedledum and Tweedledumber. Plus some minor parties ( eg. The Reasonable Sex Party * ) and independent candidates ( Tweedledee and Tweedlepee ) to add spice to the stew. Now there is a thought : I'll start up a bistro called the Voters Retreat. For all the serious wannabees. The motto will be "Don't Take It All To Seriously" ( will that last very long ? ). It will have a Whinge-Meter on the wall. I will serve over 2000 variants of coffee & cocktails. A good supply of marshmallows to lob at an opposing group. We could have Thursdays as an Open Mike night, but I fear that may be misinterpreted. A weekly prize for the most dissatisfied
payingcustomer. I may be one of many closet anarchists. Now who then would organise us ? :-)* Colloquial name ..... ideology somewhat left of Genghis Khan. ;=S
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson wrote:Painting.
Exactly why I moved out for over 3 weeks while a painter painted the whole inside of my home! He did miss a few spots, the top of the actual doors and the tops of the door frames, I'm guessing since he couldn't see them he didn't think about them.
I think that's an excellent idea, certainly no more time for painting that way!! Patients in the back, politics in the front.
Painting...yech. Just burn
Painting...yech.
Just burn it down and start over.
Phil
Try a pressure washer first, then a sand blaster and if that doesn't tear the walls down, then burn it.
Phil
Wouldn't it be worth trying the Mythbusters method first, before burning.
ROFL!! Winterknight
ROFL!!
Quote of The Month : 'There
Quote of The Month :
'There is no way to viably paint your house with explosives'
.... must have missed that episode. :-(
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson wrote:Painting.
I feel like I've texted the world but it's really only a few thousand folks. :-) We would never get mandatory voting in the US. Instead we have constant efforts to suppress or discourage the vote. We make it ridiculously difficult. The candidates are often unappealing and the parties lackluster because they only have to appeal to the tiny sliver of the electorate. Too many people either don't bother to vote or face obscene barriers to voting. Or they are discouraged because the person or party who wins the popular vote doesn't always win the office. I think I'd better have a cider and a bowl of marshmallows.
I always find it easier to paint someone else's abode rather than my own. So I painted my brother's porch last summer and he, well, umm, he thought about painting my living room.