I've made no progress on the door hardware. I did buy some paint stripper the other day for the bathroom door. Got MOST of the paint off. What's left I have to attack with a belt sander tomorrow. I'm thinking I should've left the door painted and looking like shit. It's turned into a major pain in my anus.

On a happier note, I got new rubbers on the Neon yesterday and a new windshield today. I've never owned or driven in a vehicle with a BRAND NEW windshield before. Anyway, tomorrow I have to go take my stereo out and put hte stock one back in then it's going into the paper. I hope it sells as I've seriously got my eye on a Roadmaster from California.

Since this week's Onion horoscopes suck, I'll bring you a entertaining Red Meat comic:

I've got all my mouldings on except for one piece in the bathroom. That requires me to go buy one more piece and custom fit it around the tub. Tomorrow I think I'll go out to my uncle's and blast my door hardware that has many lays of paint on it. Soon this place will be ready to sell. On that note, nobody wants to buy my Mirada :( And I also have to get the Neon ready to sell this weekend too. Hopefully that goes better than my sale on the Mirada.

Friday was my dad's 50th birthday. Nothing was done except for supper. He wants to have a BBQ on another weekend afternoon. Saturday was the celebration for my grandparents' 50th anniversary (married 4 days before my dad was born).

I painted my mouldings this morning and this afternoon, got a good portion of it put on. The bathroom is done except one piece that needs to be custom fit around the tub that I'm going to require some assistance with. My bedroom is done as is the hallway. The corners don't match as well as I'd like but that happens when people build houses without a square or a level :P

Well, I got my mouldings today. Tomorrow I have to go get some tinted varnish so that I can match the moulding I bought to the old fir baseboards. I started dusting some stuff tonight and there's a good layer of shit on everything.

Tomorrow is my dad's half century day. Not sure what's happening for that.

In other news, I've been reading this blog since the hurricane hit (thanks to I-gene for posting the link on his blog). It's been interesting following the events without the generic media coverage skewing what's happening. It also looks like they might be in for it again.

Everything has been stripped and sanded with the exception of the cabinet thing built over the chimney for my fireplace. That I'll do tomorrow being it needs to be sanded with the coarsest sand paper I have (scraping would take too long) along with the use of a vacuum to reduce the dust. I also replaced a few receptacles and switches tonight and again electrocuted myself doing it. I believe tomorrow is moulding day.

Busy, busy

I've been busting my ass lately trying to get my house up for sale. Most of the house is done for the most part. I finished about 75% of the dining room yesterday and today. My mom has been here giving me a hand as well. Tonight, my dad came over and installed the new door at the back of the house. Tomorrow I should be able to finish the dining room. Then it's off to a hardware store to get some molding to go around the bottoms of all the rooms. Barb has also been working on font ideas and formatting for wedding invitations.

The Mirada is running again and up for sale. $900 obo for any takers. And my back really fuckin' hurts. If I'm laying down (as in under a car or on a bed), I'm ok but sitting down for any period of time is a killer, particularily in my computer chair which has never bothered me before.

Today's pet peeve

What the fuck is wrong with you people with convertibles? Why do you drive with the top down with the windows up? If you're one of these idiots, send me an e-mail as to why the hell you do this.

On another note, I got the new(er) transmission the Mirada today. Tomorrow I just have to tighten a few loose bolts up and add some fluid to see what happens.

Whirlwind World Tour

My tour started by visiting wicked Yorkton. From there, I hopped all the way over to Amsterdam. Next up was Sturgis. Anyway, that was my day. I picked up a transmission for my Mirada and did some driving. That was all.

Left leg

One of these days I'm going to lose my left leg entirely. Those of you who know me know that I slashed the left knee open in a grinder accident about 3 months ago, requiring 7 stitches. Today I fall off of a stool and lose a good size piece of skin just below the scar from that.

Horoscope courtesy of The Onion.

Libra September 23 - October 23

You will be mortified at the group of self-righteous, middle-income, non-nurse-murdering losers that the state seems to consider a jury of your peers.

Thing I've seen today

First off, I went outside to go for lunch and I saw what you see above in the alley between my house and the neighbour's. While coming home from lunch, I see an old lady in probably her 70's. Wearing a very obvious "big hair" wig and a white sequin shawl over a white dress with some huge 1960's sunglasses. Almost home, I see a van full of indians with a bumper sticker that says "I pee in the shower."

Today I had to go to a unemployment insurance meeting. Those people really don't fuck around with that. Some heftly fines if you get caught scamming them and if you go on EI again after you've been caught, you have to work more hours to get EI. So much for my plan. Also, why is it that McDonald's MacPoulet (McChicken) smells so bad? It smells nothing like it tastes. That's just my experience anyway and I know lots of people hate McDonald's. Back to working on the house again....

Blog?

Never thought I'd have one of these but I guess it'll be a little more useful when I move to the US. As for now, I'll just post mindless ramblings.