it isn't a movie
Jan. 9th, 2022 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorIf my life were a movie, this would be the bit where the director cues up the snappy inspirational song, while visually doing lots of quick cut scenes of the main character doing the necessary stuff which take enormous amounts of time and are too boring to show in detail (becoming a karate expert, learning to dance, working as a welder to be able to afford to dance, fixing the space ship). Alas, life isn't a movie.
I've restarted the siding project, so much of my free time for the past week has involved applying concoctions to pieces of bevel siding. I'm using a roller now instead of a brush. That goes about twice as fast, a huge improvement! To make the most out of the rollers I'm doing two racks full at a time: 50 pieces. About 4 hours at a go to get it done. I put on the headphones and listen to music, but by the end I'm brain dead and body weary.
On the days I'm not spending all my time on siding I've been walking on the treadmill. I finished watching "The Fellowship of the Ring" and begun "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".
Friday evening I had to run the snow blower to clear off the driveway. The snow wasn't really deep, but it had 3 or 4 inches so it needed to get cleared before it froze into lumps. Even if it's quick, it takes an hour or so of back and forth. Much better than trying to do the whole thing with a shovel! Also Friday evening I got distracted by a tricky bit at work and ended up working on that well past my usually quitting time. It's nice that I can still occasionally get distracted by an interesting puzzle. Much of my work is repetitive and sameish at this point (it's kind of the definition of work), but I still occasionally get novel or particularly irritating problems.
We moved a lot of wood inside on Saturday in preparation for the coming week. It's nice to be able to start the week with the wood box full and more wood stacked in the laundry room. It is supposed to get really cold for a few days this week, true Maine January weather, but after two days it should moderate again. So far we've had an easy winter and it hasn't been as cold as it usually is, although were my desk sits tends to be cold even when the rest of the kitchen isn't.
Saturday was a busy day doing little things around the house. It had a feeling of perpetual motion. When I first went out in the morning I got to see the fresh tracks in the snow. Lots of deer and a fair number of other tracks. I think fox was one of them, but Derien wasn't sold on that. I hauled the siding primed last week out to barn and added it to the finished stack. It's nice to see the done pile growing and the undone pile shrinking.
Today I got the van started and moved it over a few feet so I'll be able to get my car out this week. I might have been able to squeeze by, but with snow and ice on the driveway I really didn't want to thread the car through a narrow space.
I've restarted the siding project, so much of my free time for the past week has involved applying concoctions to pieces of bevel siding. I'm using a roller now instead of a brush. That goes about twice as fast, a huge improvement! To make the most out of the rollers I'm doing two racks full at a time: 50 pieces. About 4 hours at a go to get it done. I put on the headphones and listen to music, but by the end I'm brain dead and body weary.
On the days I'm not spending all my time on siding I've been walking on the treadmill. I finished watching "The Fellowship of the Ring" and begun "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".
Friday evening I had to run the snow blower to clear off the driveway. The snow wasn't really deep, but it had 3 or 4 inches so it needed to get cleared before it froze into lumps. Even if it's quick, it takes an hour or so of back and forth. Much better than trying to do the whole thing with a shovel! Also Friday evening I got distracted by a tricky bit at work and ended up working on that well past my usually quitting time. It's nice that I can still occasionally get distracted by an interesting puzzle. Much of my work is repetitive and sameish at this point (it's kind of the definition of work), but I still occasionally get novel or particularly irritating problems.
We moved a lot of wood inside on Saturday in preparation for the coming week. It's nice to be able to start the week with the wood box full and more wood stacked in the laundry room. It is supposed to get really cold for a few days this week, true Maine January weather, but after two days it should moderate again. So far we've had an easy winter and it hasn't been as cold as it usually is, although were my desk sits tends to be cold even when the rest of the kitchen isn't.
Saturday was a busy day doing little things around the house. It had a feeling of perpetual motion. When I first went out in the morning I got to see the fresh tracks in the snow. Lots of deer and a fair number of other tracks. I think fox was one of them, but Derien wasn't sold on that. I hauled the siding primed last week out to barn and added it to the finished stack. It's nice to see the done pile growing and the undone pile shrinking.
Today I got the van started and moved it over a few feet so I'll be able to get my car out this week. I might have been able to squeeze by, but with snow and ice on the driveway I really didn't want to thread the car through a narrow space.
