Monday, January 09, 2006
A Thing or Two Off the To - Do List
I enjoy doing projects over the week end. I find it relaxing to get a few things done that are not work related. Sometimes it feels like all I do is stuff for work. I am fortunate though in the fact that my job isn't one of those jobs that has work that follows you home.The first thing I got done was changing the plugs in my truck. More specifically, the plugs and wires that I bought back in November. This should give me a few more miles per gallon. I was kind of surprised when I popped the cap off the distributor and found that the tip of the rotor was almost totally burned off. Surprised the truck still ran that is. This probly explains the erratic idle that it has had lately.
The second project was the disassembling of a lowboy type cabinet that came with the house. It looked like it had seen its fair share of abuse and moisture was starting to take its toll on the legs. For the past couple of months I have been using it to elevate the cat's litter boxes out of range of Hermionie's "truffle huntin' nose". I was stunned to realize that who ever built this thing took their time and did a decent job. It was made out of solid pine, no particle board here. All the joints were tongue in groove and every piece interlocked with a snug fit. It came apart with minimal effort and with only a few taps from the hammer and pry bar. This left me with a good amount of reusable wood, which leads me to my third project.
This one came to me while I was hauling the debris from the cabinet out to the garage. There were four drawers left from the cabinet that were still in good shape. They were about 24"wide, 24" deep, and 4" tall. Perfect for "built-in" shelves in the garage. They fit great between the wall studs and should work well with the peg board doors I'm gonna make tomorrow. I'm always trying to find new ways to get more storage space out of the garage while increasing the open working area. I try to used every little bit of space to its maximum capacity. The garage is only twenty feet wide by twenty-four feet deep. Techincally it's a two car garage, but with all the shit I have it's more like a one car. A small car at that. It's a tight squeeze when I got to bring the monster truck in. Some day I'll fix that too. All in due time.
greasemonkey1320 at 1:33 AM
9 People who found a peppercorn
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at 3:05 AM
said... I see, to do, snug fit, garage, monster truck, abuse,and tight squeeze and not ONCE did you mention my name.
I know who gets to sleep snuggled with my boobies tonight, and his name is...
Bobbles.
Not the hillbilly kind.
pffffffffffft on you.-
at 4:52 AM
Madame D said... Uh-oh!
No pissing off the boobies!
Though, I did try to comment about Smidge and the monkey finding the evilness in one another on the last post, and when I clicked, the screen said "You are not authorized to view this page".
Um, excuse me? No evil little web thingy will keep me from commenting! NEVER!!!
Okay, off to annoy some more...-
at 7:34 AM
Katy Barzedor said...
And what about "tongue in groove"?
If he wasn't taunting you with THAT little turn of phrase, then my tits are neon and four stories tall.-
at 8:21 PM
I'm not here. said...
Bucky!...what color neon?
:oP-
at 9:22 AM
Katy Barzedor said...
M_D - titty pink neon, of course!
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at 10:47 PM
greasemonkey1320 said...
What about nerple purple?
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at 6:38 AM
Katy Barzedor said...
I could do nerple purple. I'd likely need pinching help on that one, though, as I have no fingernails to speak of.
Now, we'd like to hear more about this "puppy" it's rumored you have in your house. You know Jess, she won't talk about it, so it's up to you to inform us.-
at 1:58 AM
Candy said...
Why are you here reading this when you could be in bed with me and have no pants on? Hmmmmmmm?
Bobbleheaded Bitch, get your little punk ass to bed.-
at 10:17 AM
Katy Barzedor said...
Did it work?