First, let me say that while there is some reward to doing much of your own work on a house, the toll it takes on your body and mind is considerable: I have bruises that are suing me, and my fingertips are as dried and cracked as…well, insert your own Nancy Pelosi joke here. Not only that, but my back and legs are so sore that I’ve had to coin a new word for the pain: reallyfuckingsupersoresore.
Later, I’ll post pics of the progress we’ve made. Window coverings just went in yesterday, so I can finally take a shower — and of course, Home Depot trips have sent us way over budget, so the last thing we’ll be getting to, down the road a bit, is the basement, where the PW pub is supposed to be. We sold the carpet that came with the build and replaced the majority of it with a new berber, but in the basement we’ll be going with a high-grade laminate that looks like our hardwood on the main floor — I’ll be installing it to save those $2K in labor costs — so right now I have concrete floors with most of the adhesive scraped off and not much more down there, save for my hopes and dreams and space for a pool table.
My desk won’t arrive until mid-late November, so I’m writing this from the bedroom floor; the first of our new furniture should be here within a week or so.
I’d like to thank all the people who donated to the site is September despite my absence. I apologize for not doing so sooner, but I haven’t had a computer for the most part, and when I have, I’ve had paint all over my hands, or blisters all over my fingers. When last we spoke, I’d just lost the Newsmax feed; fortunately, another couple advertisers stepped forward, so I’m not entirely insolvent, much to the dismay, I’m sure, of those who probably would never call me a “Good Man” and would really like to see me driven off the web.
Anyway, for September: Thanks to Kimberly M, Mueller, Lost My Cookies, Cielle Designs, Jonah C, Daniel K, SDN, Edward D, Christopher M, Terry H, RI Red, serr8d, SW, Evan C, palaeomerus, Darleen, Jer / bh, Bill Q, Di, Patrick C, cranky-D, Geoff B, Lowell J, Cathryn S, Dale N, Ralph W, and McGehee. Your support is deeply appreciated, particularly at this time. If I left anyone out, please drop me a note.
For October, which I just now realized begins today, thanks to Roger H, Geoff B, Bill Q, Di, cranky-D, and McGehee.
I have to run out now — again — to pick up some curtain rods for blackout curtains so that Tanner doesn’t wake up at 6:20 any longer. Plus, my wife needs a haircut, and her stylist is in Denver, about 35 minutes south. So I’ll be gone once again until later today and probably won’t have the opportunity to post more until tomorrow. I still have people coming over to help with a few plumbing projects and an electrical project, plus we have to deal with some warranty issues, so things are not quite yet back to normal. But they are beginning to normalize. Which I guess is all I can ask for.
For the time being, two thoughts: first, fuck Anthony Kennedy and John Roberts for their unconscionable misreading of the Constitution, which has allowed a rogue President to keep our borders open and subsequently invited TB and Ebola to join in the Jeb Bush immigrant love fest. And fuck Eric Holder and the AG’s office for forthcoming dictates on “profiling” that makes it illegal to look at, say, Liberians or those from the Congo or those from Muslim countries when it comes to sussing out terror threats or epidemics — which I posited months ago were a potential method to cull the herd just as Bill Ayers had always thought necessary, only without the ugliness of, say, death camps.
And second, I read today that 50% of those polled approve of Obama’s handling of the ISIS situation. Which, because no one else will say it, I will: I hope it is that 50% from among whose numbers heads are lopped off on camera and organs melt away. Because the rest of us — those who’ve been warning about this Administration since back before it was okay to do so — will be sad, collateral damage.
Pro tip: don’t tongue kiss any sweaty African immigrants at the airport. Even if it means being called racist. Trust me on this.
I hope the PW Pub is a members only type establishment.
Hell, don’t even shake hands with ’em.
Better still, stay out of airports. If I can’t wear my Buck knife on my belt there, I ain’t going.
You’ll get Ebola all over yourself cuttin’ Liberians, you know.
Better a slow death from Ebola than be called racist, I always say…
Nailed it, Jeff. A population cull is the unspoken dream of every environmentalist on Mother Earth, now bolstered by the Al Gore wing of ‘climate change’ believers. Recall the Dr Pianka flap back in 2006? He’s been hoping and teaching this scenario for decades..
Stock up on bleach, the new gold.
HTML fail. somebody fix that thanks!
What’s the Pub’s password again? ‘Swordfish’?
If you were a Leftist, Jeff, would your return be Immanent?
From serr8d’s link:
I always thought Frank Zappa would die by his children, having given them such wacky names. I still think they should be questioned about it…
Thank goodness you’re back, Jeff. slipperystevemileycain’tquityou has been pining away for you. I worry about the presence of bodily fluids around here.
RI Red says October 1, 2014 at 12:35 pm
Thank goodness you’re back, Jeff. slipperystevemileycain’tquityou has been pining away for you. I worry about the presence of bodily fluids around here.
No fear here. Mine are screened every month since in order to satisfy this sites insatiable appetite for money. I donate various body fluids for a cash sum.
And sometimes just for the fun of it.
Well, Mueller, that explains what it was I stepped in.
Do a lot of librarians get Ebola? Are the books infected?
Do you play KoL, Bob?
Only in Sweden, Cranky [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kol_of_Sweden].
I have no idea what KoL is.
Kingdom of Loathing is an online browser-based RPG with stick-figure graphics. One of the running jokes is that the password is always “Swordfish.”
Cultural Appropriators!
Horse Feathers!
Swordfish.
Cultural appropriation is pretty much what the game is about at the writing level.
You think you’ve been doing heavy lifting? I ran off and got married!
Further transition is impending.
Congrats, Pablo.
How’s the ball and chain fitting?
Congrats, Pablo!
Shorter Jeff: I’m showing up to say I’m not here.
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Whoever fixed the moderation setting has lousy timing.
Same as it always did, Bob. I’ve been blessed.
Congrats, Pablo!! My best thoughts and wishes for a long happy marriage for you and your bride!
congrats mr. pablo
Me too, Pablo. If your next fifteen years are as happy as my last fifteen have been, you’ll be one of the happiest men on the face of the Earth.
Though I have no desk, my return is imminent.
I once knew a man who had no legs; he fell a lot.
I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet and I took his shoes.
Because hey — free shoes.
Married? Pablo?
Congrats, man! (and bride, unless that’s somehow inappropriate now)