…to The Most Beautiful Woman in the World, the love of my life, and the reason for my breathing.

I love you!

(please note – if you are not my wife, this is not meant for you. get your own soul mate!)

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.

Chat ya later…

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For being without a for-real, honest-to-goodness job, I sure seem to be busy.

Friday and Saturday I drove cab (two twenty-four hour shifts), Sunday morning was church, and I caught a three-hour nap on Sunday afternoon. That pretty much wiped out the weekend. This morning, I have a chiropractor appointment (Hi, Dr. Powell!) and then it’s back over to the church – time for the flooring in the new “gameroom.” I know, I promised pictures of the light fixtures (I only helped hang two of the five; two Fridays ago a crew hung the rest and this last Friday some more volunteers hung the blinds and started the flooring), but I’ve been a bit busy. At any rate, I will get pictures up soon covering the latest developments in the “gameroom.”

Gotta get going now – MEG needs to get up and get dressed (she woke up earlier, but wasn’t ready to get up, if you know what I mean) and then we will be running for the day.

Chat ya later…

Thank you for stopping by, In GOD We Trust, God bless you all, don’t buy or breed cats or dogs while homeless pets die (spay, neuter & adopt a pet, one by one, until there are none), Wear Red on Fridays, and support Warriors for Innocence!

Go on out there – wear red, make me proud! I’m driving cab today and tomorrow, so I’ll be offline – unless you have my cell number.

Chat ya later…

Thank you for stopping by, In GOD We Trust, God bless you all, don’t buy or breed cats or dogs while homeless pets die (spay, neuter & adopt a pet, one by one, until there are none), Wear Red on Fridays, and support Warriors for Innocence!

I was going to do a round up today – and got sidetracked by a job opening in my e-mail. The application process (online – whatever happened to “come on down, fill out an application, and we’ll talk!”?) consisted of several questions of the usual sort (what’s your name? do you have any aliases? where do you live? how long have you lived there? where have you worked before? do you do drugs? can we test you for them?) and then a timed questionnaire involving a set of questions, asked differently, 224 times.

Seriously!

Yes, I know that they are trying to get an idea of who you are by asking these questions, trying to “trip you up” perhaps, but do they really think people are going to answer truthfully if they are desperate for a job? While I am not desperate, I would never answer untruthfully. It’s not in my nature.

So – what are the questions, you wonder?

Questions like “Do you have family living in the area?” “Are you an honest person?” (snicker – ‘oh, yesss – very honest – just ask my parole officer!’) “Do you think safety is due to luck or diligence?” “Have you ever stolen anything?” (no, Diogenes – never in my life.) “Do you think everyone else is honest?”

They didn’t allow for essay answers. I don’t think they would have liked mine very much.

Well, do me a favor. Visit the fine folks over in the sidebar and tell them I said hello. I’ll be there too, but tell them I sent you anyway. Chances are, if you enjoy reading this stuff, you will really like the ones I’m linked to.

And one more thing – if you are so inclined – please pray for God to guide me in my career aspects. I appreciate it.

Chat ya later…

Thank you for stopping by, In GOD We Trust, God bless you all, don’t buy or breed cats or dogs while homeless pets die (spay, neuter & adopt a pet, one by one, until there are none), Wear Red on Fridays, and support Warriors for Innocence!