stepped out again to go to skokie millwork (arrange delivery of new molding for windows at home), the pet store (cat litter), home depot (12 guage stranded red electrical wire, one sheet 5/8' greenboard, two quarts hammered metal paint, two bathroom wall light fixtures, light bulbs, 8" ceiling vent diffusers, etc). the whole time, i talked to people on the phone, arranging things.
loaded everything into TBM, and got to work cleaning, rearranging.
saw a mom and a child walk by today, and i'm pretty sure the mom said "yes, you're right, that place looks like a dump" as they went past. this line echoed through my head all day.
i built the base for the spray-out booth, installed two 12" sections of drywall for the areas behind the baseboard radiators in my office, pulled nails from some plywood scraps, removed the last bits of BX i could find, separated scrap metal for the junkers, pulled up some of the last old vinyl flooring (terrible terrible adhesive), started installing the doorbell, shortened the ventwork coming into my office (and added new diffusers) and painted the covers for all the radiators, which i hope to hang tomorrow. my dad was by for several hours, as was chuck the electrician. we listened to WXRT today, instead of NPR, as we usually do. the trade-off for hearing pretty good music all day with little to no bad news about pakistan or myanmar was the fact that i heard total bullshit ads for AT&T and menards over and over again all day.
it rained, and the temperature is supposed to drop tonight.
i came home around 8, cleaned my hands (fresh cuts), bathed, ate chocolate chip cookies diana just made, then cooked a frozen pizza. settling in to answer emails and do this blog.
very tired.
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