Weekend plans: dining room

Going to be a busy weekend, starting pretty much the minute I get home from work this evening.

We had friends over last week, one I hadn't seen for a long time, and I found I was really self-conscious about the condition of our dining room.  As with many do-it-yerselfers, we start projects, get them to a certain level of stability and then pause and breathe while we pay off all the stuff we bought on credit to get that far. 

The dining room is taking a long time*, and I want to get it to the next plateau this weekend, and what's left is the West wall**.

Today

- Empty the cabinets (Michelle's going to do that today while I'm at work)
- remove the cabinets from the wall.
- remove the drywall and assess the condition of the underlying structure.  I know there's at least one problem: the top edge of the wall takes a noticeable lean outward in the middle of the wall.  I'm not sure why since there's no deformation of the ceiling above. 

Tomorrow

- First thing in the morning, before the sun rises and heats the attic, reconnect the electrical to the dining room ceiling fan.
- If I can, correct what needs correcting in the West wall, including making plumb/straightening the wall and replacing the door***.
- Hang new drywall, tape, two coats of mud at each corner.
- Finish the mudding and sanding on each of the other corners.  We have a tray ceiling, which makes for more corners, but it's still doable.

Sunday

- Cut shims for all the window frames to bring them flush with the drywall.
- Prime the walls.
- Re-hang the cabinets

Gonna be a busy weekend, but I'm looking forward to it.  At least we're not traveling anywhere.

* Two, three years now, since we replaced the windows and started this round?  I've lost count.  Michelle would know.

** If you view the house from the air, we don't actually have a west wall anywhere...the house faces mostly  North-East, so it's more of a south-west wall, but for our purposes it's close enough.

*** Thankfully, I already have a door nearly identical to the one that's there that is in much better condition with better hardware.  Both are fifty years old, but the nicer one was on an entrance we rarely used.

Weekend plans: dining room

Going to be a busy weekend, starting pretty much the minute I get home from work this evening.

We had friends over last week, one I hadn't seen for a long time, and I found I was really self-conscious about the condition of our dining room.  As with many do-it-yerselfers, we start projects, get them to a certain level of stability and then pause and breathe while we pay off all the stuff we bought on credit to get that far. 

The dining room is taking a long time*, and I want to get it to the next plateau this weekend, and what's left is the West wall**.

Today

- Empty the cabinets (Michelle's going to do that today while I'm at work)
- remove the cabinets from the wall.
- remove the drywall and assess the condition of the underlying structure.  I know there's at least one problem: the top edge of the wall takes a noticeable lean outward in the middle of the wall.  I'm not sure why since there's no deformation of the ceiling above. 

Tomorrow

- First thing in the morning, before the sun rises and heats the attic, reconnect the electrical to the dining room ceiling fan.
- If I can, correct what needs correcting in the West wall, including making plumb/straightening the wall and replacing the door***.
- Hang new drywall, tape, two coats of mud at each corner.
- Finish the mudding and sanding on each of the other corners.  We have a tray ceiling, which makes for more corners, but it's still doable.

Sunday

- Cut shims for all the window frames to bring them flush with the drywall.
- Prime the walls.
- Re-hang the cabinets

Gonna be a busy weekend, but I'm looking forward to it.  At least we're not traveling anywhere.

* Two, three years now, since we replaced the windows and started this round?  I've lost count.  Michelle would know.

** If you view the house from the air, we don't actually have a west wall anywhere...the house faces mostly  North-East, so it's more of a south-west wall, but for our purposes it's close enough.

*** Thankfully, I already have a door nearly identical to the one that's there that is in much better condition with better hardware.  Both are fifty years old, but the nicer one was on an entrance we rarely used.

The Duggars must be stopped!

With so many kids parentless, living in squalor and abject poverty, along comes child #17.  Jesus.  Or rather, Jennifer Danielle.

Let's start here.  Let's follow that with this, part of which I quote below:

Let us be clear: I don't care what sort of God you believe in, it's a safe bet that hysterical breeding does not top her list of desirables. God does not want more children per acre than there are ants or mice or garter snakes or repressed pedophilic priests. We already have three billion humans on the planet who subsist on less than two dollars a day. Every other child in the world (one billion of them) lives in abject poverty. We are burning through the planet's resources faster than a Republican can eat an endangered caribou stew. Note to Michelle Duggar: If God wanted you to have a massive pile of children, she'd have given your uterus a hydraulic pump and a revolving door. Stop it now.

Ah, but this is America, yes? People should be allowed to do whatever the hell they want with their families if they can afford it and if it's within the law and so long as they aren't gay or deviant or happily flouting Good Christian Values, right? Shouldn't they? Hell, gay couples still can't openly adopt a baby in most states (they either lie, or one adopts and the other must apply as "co-parent"), but Michelle Duggar can pop out 16 kids and no one says, oh my freaking God, stop it, stop it now, you thoughtless, selfish, baby-drunk people.

The Duggar family offends me like nothing else on this planet.  Thankfully, someone with a rather larger public voice than mine said something.  The last paragraph sums up my feelings pretty well - especially the part I highlighted in red.

(And for God's sake, after 17 kids, how can she manage enough traction to get anything smaller than a watermelon to ejaculate and knock her up?)

The Duggars must be stopped!

With so many kids parentless, living in squalor and abject poverty, along comes child #17.  Jesus.  Or rather, Jennifer Danielle.

Let's start here.  Let's follow that with this, part of which I quote below:

Let us be clear: I don't care what sort of God you believe in, it's a safe bet that hysterical breeding does not top her list of desirables. God does not want more children per acre than there are ants or mice or garter snakes or repressed pedophilic priests. We already have three billion humans on the planet who subsist on less than two dollars a day. Every other child in the world (one billion of them) lives in abject poverty. We are burning through the planet's resources faster than a Republican can eat an endangered caribou stew. Note to Michelle Duggar: If God wanted you to have a massive pile of children, she'd have given your uterus a hydraulic pump and a revolving door. Stop it now.

Ah, but this is America, yes? People should be allowed to do whatever the hell they want with their families if they can afford it and if it's within the law and so long as they aren't gay or deviant or happily flouting Good Christian Values, right? Shouldn't they? Hell, gay couples still can't openly adopt a baby in most states (they either lie, or one adopts and the other must apply as "co-parent"), but Michelle Duggar can pop out 16 kids and no one says, oh my freaking God, stop it, stop it now, you thoughtless, selfish, baby-drunk people.

The Duggar family offends me like nothing else on this planet.  Thankfully, someone with a rather larger public voice than mine said something.  The last paragraph sums up my feelings pretty well - especially the part I highlighted in red.

(And for God's sake, after 17 kids, how can she manage enough traction to get anything smaller than a watermelon to ejaculate and knock her up?)

Another reason to LOVE Kevin Smith

Hey, Jeho:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1769704/

Another reason to LOVE Kevin Smith

Hey, Jeho:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1769704/