I thought I would feel better after some sleep.
I was wrong. I feel really bad today, and I am pretty sure it’s because I over-taxed myself in the sun yesterday.
Some lessons are never learned.
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I hadn’t done flooring in a while. In fact, not since I did the tile in my own house, and that was mostly up-and-down, with very little strenuous activity, since most of the tiling went in without needing trimmed. Even the laminated wood flooring that went into our master bedroom and MEG’s room went pretty quick.
Engineered wood – now, there’s a different story. I’ve laid floors on wood sub-floors, and that was a case of nailing the slabs down. This was the first time I helped do a floating floor with 5/8″ engineered wood, and I gotta tell you that this morning my legs and my abs are screaming in agony. Up, down, then push the pieces into alignment so you can temporarily tape them until the glue dries… up, down, then push the pieces into alignment… you get the picture. At one point, there were three “crews” filling in the middle while one guy started the rows (using cut pieces to stagger the joints) and I finished off each row (cutting pieces to fit). We covered almost 1800 square feet of flooring in about six hours of hard labor yesterday:
Today, we will be tackling the stage area. This should be challenging, as the edges will need a lot of custom cut pieces. I’ll have to discuss the feasibility of trying to make sure the floor planks and the stage planks align with one another – because chances are, they won’t – but I have a trick or two up my sleeve.
Oh, before I forget – a shot of the light fixtures:
Now, I need to dismount my table saw from the rolling base and load it onto the trailer so I have an edge on getting the pieces cut correctly for the stage.
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I did remember to actually use the camera I take along with me to jobs; this time I even took photos in process. The first project of the day was to build up a section of floor to be used as a dais, or stage, in the new gameroom:
With 2×6 joists on edge, on 16″ centers, and 3/4″ (OK, it’s actually 23/32″) plywood, it was pretty fast going and the stage was built within an hour:
When the flooring is installed, the stage will be finished.
The next project was the ceiling line – you know, where the wall meets the ceiling. It was pretty plain:
Corner blocks in all four corners:
Starting in one corner and working all the way around the 2000 square foot room, the crown moulding went up quick and easy, with the help of one of the guys from church:
And the finished product:
Today, once the Pastor finishes some personal chores, we will be installing the rest of the light fixtures. Again, pictures to follow.
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One is transparent, the other can be seen straight through.
Remember when I asked you to read and then sign the petition to remove the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award from the cold grasping fingers of John Murtha? The signatures are way over 54,000 now, and still growing. Thank you for your support in this matter.
Cary, we’ll never see anything about this in the MSM!
Don’t bet on it. There are already rumblings, like this this piece from Bing West of the National Review Online (i know, but hey, it’s a start):
In bestowing the navy’s highest civilian medal, the Distinguished Public Service Award, upon Rep. John P. Murtha (D., Pa.) last month, the secretary of the Navy acted as a supplicant — an accountant happy to be given funds and disinclined to question the source. The secretary (Donald C. Winter, a Bush administration holdover who has since left the job) demonstrated that he did not understand his official role as a leader when the country is at war. Murtha smeared the reputation of a generation of Marines, and to reward him alongside several other members of Congress for earmarking funds served to exonerate the congressman, who never apologized for besmirching the honor of our fighting men.
(h/t to the StarettWire service for the heads up on the story. to join, drop me a line at carycartter AT gmail DOT com and i will send you the information)
So, why the mention of windows in the title? No, I am not shilling for Microsoft. I am, however, going to go over to the church this morning and start putting windows in the new building. It’s a retrofit, so there will be some challenges, but nothing I can’t handle.
Mmmmm – power tools and sawdust! I can hardly wait – but the church is located in an established neighborhood, so I have to wait until a “reasonable hour” before starting the work – can’t disturb the neighbors, you know!
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1384 and a wake up!
So – how’s this “Hope” and “Change” working for you? Any improvement since the last time I asked?
No?
How about a real eye-opener? In the Spendulus (porkulus, broke-ulus, ridic-ulus) bill, did you know that West Virginia is only asking for $700,000 for ONE project? Did you know that Illinois (I know this will come as a shock and surprise to all of you) is requesting $3,108,484,657 (that’s three billion) for 1,031 projects?
Don’t believe me? Check it out for yourself (and your own state – how’d you do? Arizona has plans for $5,574,053,222 to cover 743 projects) at Stimulus Watch.
Worth noting – not all projects are guaranteed funding – these projects are the ones deemed “shovel ready” by the mayors of each state “as submitted in the 2008 U.S. Conference of Mayors report.”
Wow.
1404 and a wake-up…
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