Blizzard of 06
It snowed on friday. Or better put is snowed a lot. A whole lot. It actually took 40 minutes to drive to work. Still better than the 4 hours it probably would ahve taken to get to Chicago, and who knows how I would have gotten out. So, I was home around 4:00 since no one stayed at work on Friday there was no reason to go against the flow on that one.. 8^)
Instead I got home nice and early and was suprisingly well rested and felt good. So instead of anything productive I spent a little bit of quality time hunting drafts with the caulk gun, put up some more window plastic and then logged on strapped myself into a corsair and pwned up some n00bs. In the end it was a perfect snowey Friday. Much better than the sheer horror and badness that weekday snow events were causing me with the long commute.. I am going to guess that being an extreame commuter is probably easier in less snowey climates. I know all 4 of the people reading this are wondering where the darn paix are of the nearly finished bedroom project.. They will be along soon.. Very soon, as soon as I get motivated to actually take them then take all of that time downloading them and then uploading them.. Wow I am lazy. 8^) Despite my lazyness I am now really under the gun.. The holiday party is in 12 days. Thats 12 days, to finish the downstairs 1/2 bath from hell enough to at least let tht guys use it. Thats 12 days, to get the insulation in the attic above the new bedrooms… Thats 12 days to make the upstairs main hallway not look so stupid. I have only 12 days left to get the very last bits of venetian plaster up, along with the sconces in the front bedroom. Hopefully I can also get the medalion, paint it and put that up with a real light fixture. 8^P Ok, then there is the whole next cleanup thing. Have I ever mentioned that the kitchen is in such a sad state of cheep materials that cleaning it really only results in it looking less cruddy. Yea, I still look forward to my day in there with the 10 lbs sledge. 8^)
I found out somethign interesting. The place my mother just moved into hase a groovy modern wood fireplace inserted into what I thought was the origonal fireplace. Instead its on in a original real fireplace but a wacky old gas burner like I have. The chopped out the extra bricks and inststalled it with a new stainless chimney for a couple thousand bucks. Now, I would be stuck with a fairly ugly stainless steel chimney running up the outside of the house but.. I can get firewood for very amazingly cheep.. Something like that could heat the whole downstairs and the two front rooms of the second floor. The result would be that I could get away with only running the furnace about 3 months out of the year.. In Wisconsin.. It would pay for iteslf in about 2 years.. Or faster than a new super hight effecincy furnace will pay for itself. So, now I am thinking that end of next summer it could be on the list along with the new furnace, hot water heater and hot water source for the radiant system… 8^P
I should learn to not geat ahead of myself. 8^) I am just really geeked up about finishing the bedroom.. 8^) Granted the next hell project is the attic. Thats going to be not fun for a while.. Its also going to be hellishly spendy for a bit. The engineered subfloor will be 4k the real floor will be another 2 or 3, Thats just the floors, I also need to replace 6 windows and the front porch door.. Put in lights, and new electrics, walls, paint and trim along with all the damm furniture that it will take to make it feel usefull. Then there is the electronics package up there.
Bleh!
Ivan