What’d you do today, Jake?
Well, kids, I’ll tell ya…
- I cut a bunch of tile.
- I got my car back.
- I took my wife to get more skin art.
Good times.
Monthly Archive for November, 2006
First a floor update: After taking yesterday off completely thanks to the chill I caught on the motorbike and general laziness (it is a vacation, after all), I came out firing today. First, I scooted around on the subfloor removing the remaining staples from the carpet pad. After that bag o’ fun, I scooted around on the subfloor some more, this time sanding the seams of the OSB to flatten them out enough for the mortar bed not to mind. After a bunch of sweeping and vacuuming and choking on the dust (I’m positively covered…), I finally got around to measuring out a standard centerline by centerline layout and giving it a bit of a dry fit test, as demonstrated below (see also: my Flickr set for this project):
Office Slate Project: Testing the Layout SW
Originally uploaded by Jake Sutton.
Car update: The mechanic tells me “there’s definitely something wrong in the clutch area” of my Rodeo. So he’s going to drop the tranny and see what’s what. His initial guess (which covers a new clutch and clutch fork) is about $1400. Sadly, this is almost exactly the number I was expecting. Here’s hoping it doesn’t grow much.
One from teh intarweb: Seriously? People worry about this crap? Myself, I don’t sign off personal emails at all. If it’s someone I don’t know that well or haven’t been in touch with recently I might end with “- Jake”. On rare occasions, I’ll toss in a “Cheers” or “Ta”. Work emails generally just get the hyphen-space-name treatment.
As I mentioned, I had to have my Rodeo towed to a mechanic this past Saturday.
Well, today I needed to get the keys to said mechanic so that they could actually work on the thing. (I didn’t see any key drop box at the shop on Saturday.) The Wife is working, so that left me with my second vehicle: the Bonneville.
I wasn’t that worried because the last forecast I saw said it would get up to 50 degrees. Sadly as it neared noon, my thermometer still read in the twenties…
The good news: my riding jacket is awesome with its liner in.
The bad news: I don’t have cold weather-appropriate gloves or pants. Wearing jeans on a motorcycle in sub-freezing temps is very much like wearing jeans to go skiing/snowboarding — Many of us have done it, but few of us would want to ever do it again (in fact, most of us went out and bought proper gear right after the experience).
Brrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!
Keep an eye on my Flickr photos for updates on my latest home improvement project: tiling the office with slate tile.
Office Slate Project: Subfloor NE
Originally uploaded by Jake Sutton.
This is only somewhat hampered by the fact that my car broke yesterday (on the way back from fetching the remainder of my slate purchase, in fact) — clutch went bye-bye. We’ll see that that going to do to me tomorrow, hopefully.
Good times.
Somehow, I’ve manage to avoid learning that Sikhs are required by their religion to carry a dagger:
The kirpan, one of five items baptized Sikhs are required to wear, is meant as a reminder of the duty to uphold justice. The others are reminders of other things: the kesh, or Sikhs’ uncut hair, to live as God created you; kanga, a wooden comb, to remain neat; kara, a bracelet, to do good deeds; and kachera, or large underwear, to remain chaste and faithful sexually.
The story is about Homeland Security maybe being a little less asshole-ish to one particular group of brown folk, but I’m more excited about a whole group of people being required to pack a blade!
Sometime between a year and two years ago, I had one of my molars crumble to bits, necessitating a root canal and crown. That was fun times.
Starting a month or two ago, that very same tooth started acting tetchy. Then one day a few weeks ago it went so thermonuclear that I couldn’t see straight. Unfortunately, my pain tolerance allows me to let things get this out of hand before I do something about it.
Long story short, the original root canal - though it was a fine job - got “re-infected” and required “retreatment”. Said retreatment was completed roughly an hour ago. I went to a new guy who specializes in endodontics, and I have to say I’m impressed. The whole thing took about an hour and I was falling asleep through half of it (which I attribute to a total lack of odontophobia and perhaps a very low-grade case of narcolepsy — stress makes me drowsy 
).
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