{"id":57,"date":"2003-09-29T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-29T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-09-29T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-29T15:28:00","slug":"40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/40","title":{"rendered":"Strange, I’ve never craved brains before… BRAAAAIIINS!<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s official. I’m tired.<\/p>\n

Not in a "Gee, I only got six hours of sleep last night<\/i>" sort of way, but in a "Gee, I only got six hours of sleep last week<\/i>" sort of way. We’ve been working on the house non-stop for two weeks, and while we’re making great progress, it’s taking a toll on my psyche and body.<\/p>\n

I’m not a coffee drinker. Really. I never got into the groove of having a cup or two in the morning, or one with dessert. I have a cup now and again as the mood strikes me, but it’s not a habitual thing. I find that the amount of caffeine, especially in the crankcase oil they brew at work, makes my stomach go all wiggly, and it doesn’t so much wake me up as prop my eyes open like Alex in A Clockwork Orange<\/b> while the rest of my body figures out a way to fake the appearance of being alert.<\/p>\n

These days, I have a cup every morning at work to keep my stinging eyes open, and my slurred, tired speech from giving me away. Oh patron saint of caffeine, I beseech thee to wake me from my slumber and deliver me unto consciousness!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s finally starting to feel like Halloween. No, not fall, Halloween \u2013- that is the official season as far as I\u2019m concerned. More on this topic another time, as it\u2019s deserving of a post all it\u2019s own.<\/p>\n

Had a nice chat with Steve<\/b><\/a> last week. It’s always too long between calls, and we take such a long time to catch up. I got a few dirty looks from Lady for the time I spent not working on the house, but it was worth it.<\/p>\n

HOUSE UPDATES<\/u><\/b>
\n(if this doesn’t interest you, skip the rest of the post)<\/p>\n

The work on the house is progressing nicely. Almost every surface that needs primer has been primed and all of the ceilings have been painted. One room actually has its final color on the walls. There is no longer any remnants of the old drop ceiling in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

I’ve completed Wiring Phase 1: Power<\/b> which includes removing every receptacle, the box in the wall it was mounted to, drilling up through the floor into the wall and pulling a ground wire from that spot to the power main, enlarging the hole in the wall for a new box and installing the new box and a new three pronged grounded receptacle. I also added two new power circuits, expanded a few existing ones and added the power and switches for a ceiling fan. We have an electrician coming out this week to give us an estimate on upgrading the fuse panels to breakers.<\/p>\n

Wiring Phase 2: Communications<\/b> commences this week, and that involves pulling phone, Ethernet and cable-tv to all the areas that need it. The problem here is that since the plumbers have finally<\/i> filled in the Grand Canyon under the house, I have an inordinate amount of sand piled up under there. I mean, it’s touching the floor in some areas. They do that because the sand will eventually settle, and the wider\/deeper the hole, the more sand it requires. Unfortunately, I now have to crawl through the wet dunes to run comm cables from the back corner of the house to everywhere else. Joy.<\/p>\n

All told, we’re moderately on schedule and should wrap up all the necessities this week. Next week we start to trickle things in from storage, and the weekend of October 11th we’ll get a truck and do the big move from storage. All you folks that offered to help us move, be prepared for the sounding the horn that will signal a rallying of the troops right about that time. We may call upon a few Special Forces to help up do some trickling before then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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