Which should have taken 30 minutes. 4 hours later, into lunch, we now have it mostly put together.
This thing is amazing. Board restraints, anti-buck pawls, —My dad’s consisted of a flat surface, a saw blade with no guards at all, an on switch, an angle adjustment, and a height adjustment. I learned on that one, and still have all my fingers, and never got hit in the head by a board, either. I’m not sure I trust this modern stuff. This is “Buck Rogers does a table saw…” Only thing it lacks is a laser.
We are doing this to be able to cut a patch for the bathroom plywood. Sheesh! OTOH, it should go fast once we have this thing running.
Jane’s finger is getting soaked often.
I had my computer lock itself again today, so that I had to do a hard shutdown. I went through two sessions with ‘Peggy’ on Dell, until I finally got one to admit he was lost, and I got gentlemanly Olivio, bless him, who worked until he admitted he was lost, too (but he was nice) and we eliminated hardware failure and think it is more a software issue. So I am taking some measures he suggested about hibernation-shutdown and I have his number and a tracking number so if it does it again we can remote the computer and let him try to spot the problem. OTOH, the fix may work.
I also found a piece of malware on my disc, and got rid of that. So today is a day for fixing things.
Jane fixed my dishwasher! Yay!
You all do seem to be having quite a streak of bad luck! Hopefully, it’s about over with!!
And nothing makes me quite as nervous as having my ‘puter start acting up, I must confess… so I’m going to try tapping around EFT-style, to see if I can help yours. It’s worked for mine. 🙂
Anyway, good luck to you, and yay about the dishwasher!
Hooray for the dishwasher! Appliances are such a given in day to day functioning that it throws things off kilter when they malfunction. When my countertop convection oven went blooey I almost went crazy in the two weeks it took me to research and decide on a new one!
No computer problems, aside from my battery quitting….I really would go nuts if I couldn’t do my own blog and more importantly keep in touch with all those I follow 😉
I wonder if you need to hire a local shaman, medicine man or paranormal practitioner to cleanse your abode of evil spirits, bad juju, rotten mojo, imps, djinns and what have you. If your allergies can tolerate, maybe a good smudging with sage might help. Or a liberal dousing of holy water or something. Jeemany whiz. This one thing after another business has gone on way too long. Desperate measures may be required. I may have to burn incense and do an oogabooga dance.
One would think that, if they were going to encounter bad juju, it would have put in an appearance shortly after they moved in, rather than waiting until they’ve been resident for several years. Nonetheless, time to get out the beads, rattles, ti leaves and Hawaiian salt! *houmanahoumanahoumana*
It seems a consensus may be forming, at least among the rest of us: writing, yes, home repair, no.
Well, that walk needs shoveling, and we got the table saw calibrated. Alas, when you have a hole in the bathroom wall (put there because previous owner drove a hand-grip into said wall, on which tile had been put onto ‘moisture resistent’ drywall sheetrock/gypsum wallboard. When the screw went in, it broke the seal, and subsequent use of the shower turned the gypsum to soup. When the tile grout cracked, the wall behind them went to soup (and mold) and crumbled, completely, because of the soaking of the beams from the other side. That’s why the bathroom remodel. If we’re going to re-do it, we re-do it pretty.)
The kitchen floor is going to wait a year. It’s liveable.
We had to do a bit of the bathroom subfloor because we missed the fact the caulk had failed around the tub, see (a).
The guy we approached about doing this wanted 1500 for just the labor on the bathroom tile.
We are getting that part done for 500 (better shopping) if we prep the area.
Re the power tools—don’t worry. I helped my dad use a table saw from when I was thirteen; and Jane with her dad, ditto. We just never had calibrated one before, and we were out there last night in the dark (light in the garage) trying to find something called a ‘jam nut’, which would let us calibrate the blade tilt.
FOund it. Numerous angry complainants on the internet didn’t and were furious at Skiltools, Inc. But we know where it is, and we calibrated the sucker.
We’re going to have to pay to get a workman to go on our roof and remove the moss and apply preventative chemical: we don’t do roofs. We’re going to have to pay for the tile work in the bath and the building of a sofit (box-shaped structural element) for the lights. But if we paid for that remodel in toto, we’d have been lucky to get out for 5000.00. So 500 is pretty good. And we are going to spend this snowy day putting Christmas away and shoveling the walk.
Plus writing
In general the term “jamnut” refers to a situation where you really don’t want a nut to loosen, but for some reason just tightening extra hard doesn’t work. So you thread on another nut, two of them, and tighten the second nut hard against the first, which also needs a wrench to keep it from moving and in place. Obviously that means the wrench for the first nut can be no wider than the nut, in general, and sometimes that’s not so easy.
Yay on the ‘plus writing’!
And the snow over here in W. Washington has turned to more icy rain… and that is NOT an improvement! They make ice skating rinks flat for a reason, eh?
But good luck with the seemingly never ending house repairs! Dang.
Are you guys going to the Pasco Radcon this year, btw?