june 22 - 10pm
hmmmm...apparently hiding from web search engine robots is an esoteric art, even though it's pretty easy to do (if you remember to!) just click "view page source" or whatever your browser calls it, and see how I do it. or use the ever friendly google to find out how it works.
We did some more garage working on today, although the simple errand of fetching Gary and Kevin from summerschool managed to take 3 hours! we also got a bag of wall texture mix, some plumbing fittings for electrical conduit, and we had to goof off some too.
The wires are now in the tube that connects the garage to the power pole, and the ends are connected to the appropriate places, and the trench filled in. No smoke escaped from the wires, either. Some (most?) folks are scared of working on power panels, but there's no magic involved, just knowing what to be careful about.
The walls are close enough to be ready to texture. We'll give that a shot in the morning...I've never done the spraying, but I did help "Harry" when we did all the remodeling work in the house.
aren't walls exciting? finished walls sure are!
it's been tending towards rain the past several days, clouding up and threatening. It's that time of year, finally.
I've been trying to read a book about Robert Hooke, who (as all us mechanical engineers know) posited Hooke's Law, that the force of a spring is proportional to the deflection. F=kx, that is. It's kind of hard to get going on the book, though...maybe it'll get interesting? we'll see.
I should go to the library and get something exciting to read...I tried on Monday, then remembered, driving thru the empty parking lot, that they have short hours on Monday like all good libraries.
I had to go back and edit this entry, after seeing the two milk crates in the picture. Those are genuine olden days purloined milk crates! as we know, owning a milk crate is a misdemeanor, because they are never sold, only stolen. These ones with the wire construction (no plastic at all) date from the 1960s, I believe. They are one of the handiest multi-purpose tools ever made, especially considering they were not made to be tools! I use them for standing on to work on ceilings, for holding parts while painting or sandblasting, for holding up transmissions and stuff while doing engine swaps, and occasionally for carrying stuff. I'd probably pay $20 or so apiece if I had to buy them!
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