Journal UseTheSource's Journal: Random musings (and some bitching). 1
I'm not a master carpenter... But I can do a passable job. Now that I'll be working from home 4 days a week for the foreseeable future, I've decided to kick my home wiring project I've been putting off into high gear. This involves some carpentry, as I'm running cable between floors through a wall and into an attic space over a single-floor wing of the house.
My attic is hot as balls... It was 112 degrees F in there this afternoon, so I waited until a little later on to work on what I'm doing in there. The previous owner did a piss poor job of putting down flooring in there for storage, and as I've been ripping it up to get to where I need to run wires, I decided to redo it the right way. Before I can do that, though, I've framed out a "box" made from 2x6s between the ceiling joists that dams off the insulation and will support a trap door in the floor providing access to the cable run. Like I said, I'm not a master carpenter, but I've done a decent job making this thing square and level, considering I'm attaching it to joists that are not themselves square and level, and it was still 95 degrees in there when I was working on it tonight. On either side of the box, I've toenailed in a couple of 2x4s to support the plywood floor on the edges. This took some practice, but I think I got the hang of it. It was still tough trying to do this between lapped joists which were less than 13" apart. One of them, while level end-to-end, ended up being twisted a little out of level vertically as I was nailing it in. It looked straight when I was nailing it in, but I guess my eyes were deceiving me. I can't very well fix this without ripping the whole thing apart, so it'll have to stay. It probably would be close enough for government work, anyway. ;)
I like screwing better than nailing... For the parts that I had no choice but to use nails on, I used nails. Everywhere else I used sturdy #12 wood screws.
I've got the Oblongs theme song stuck in my head... I could hear it from the TV in the living room below, when I was working in the attic. Nick had Adult Swim on for awhile before she had to get ready for work.
We made the same mistake twice... Since it's about that season, we uncovered the pool today. The water didn't look all that bad at all... That is, until we let all the leaves and debris and crap sitting on top of the cover slide into the pool as we pulled it off! It's a good thing Nick fished the dead bird out before we did that, I guess. This is the second year in a row we've allowed that to happen, though. Now the water's all dark and murky. I was able to get out most of the leaves with the net, but it's still pretty cloudy.
I guess we drained the pool last year a little more than we did the previous year... I had the hose running for over 6 hours, and it's only about halfway to where it needs to be. I finally had to just turn it off so I don't end up with a flooded yard in the morning.
I'm beat... But at least I don't have to commute to work tomorrow, suckers! :P
My attic is hot as balls... It was 112 degrees F in there this afternoon, so I waited until a little later on to work on what I'm doing in there. The previous owner did a piss poor job of putting down flooring in there for storage, and as I've been ripping it up to get to where I need to run wires, I decided to redo it the right way. Before I can do that, though, I've framed out a "box" made from 2x6s between the ceiling joists that dams off the insulation and will support a trap door in the floor providing access to the cable run. Like I said, I'm not a master carpenter, but I've done a decent job making this thing square and level, considering I'm attaching it to joists that are not themselves square and level, and it was still 95 degrees in there when I was working on it tonight. On either side of the box, I've toenailed in a couple of 2x4s to support the plywood floor on the edges. This took some practice, but I think I got the hang of it. It was still tough trying to do this between lapped joists which were less than 13" apart. One of them, while level end-to-end, ended up being twisted a little out of level vertically as I was nailing it in. It looked straight when I was nailing it in, but I guess my eyes were deceiving me. I can't very well fix this without ripping the whole thing apart, so it'll have to stay. It probably would be close enough for government work, anyway.
I like screwing better than nailing... For the parts that I had no choice but to use nails on, I used nails. Everywhere else I used sturdy #12 wood screws.
I've got the Oblongs theme song stuck in my head... I could hear it from the TV in the living room below, when I was working in the attic. Nick had Adult Swim on for awhile before she had to get ready for work.
We made the same mistake twice... Since it's about that season, we uncovered the pool today. The water didn't look all that bad at all... That is, until we let all the leaves and debris and crap sitting on top of the cover slide into the pool as we pulled it off! It's a good thing Nick fished the dead bird out before we did that, I guess. This is the second year in a row we've allowed that to happen, though. Now the water's all dark and murky. I was able to get out most of the leaves with the net, but it's still pretty cloudy.
I guess we drained the pool last year a little more than we did the previous year... I had the hose running for over 6 hours, and it's only about halfway to where it needs to be. I finally had to just turn it off so I don't end up with a flooded yard in the morning.
I'm beat... But at least I don't have to commute to work tomorrow, suckers!
My dirty mind.. (Score:2)
And here I thought they were one and the same...