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Working my day job, working on the house, working on my girlfriend's house which is a rental but which we hope to persuade the landlord to let us stay in for another year without a rent increase, and working my day job some more until I fall asleep.
Pfffbt. Never will happen. After they finish the current round of messing up the beltway, there's going to be a bunch of freight rail improvements and tunnels and stuff that will mess up more.
Oh, yeah, I meant Datacenter, but DC is terrifying too.
My girlfriend's a civil engineer and some of her projects have been in that area.
I get out to walk/run in the morning at sunup when it's all regulars and we're all fat and we all say hello to one another. I go hashing on sundays sometimes. I can go weeks without seeing another human and not get lonely.
My main DIY project since starting back up on things has been fixing the things that have deteriorated since the last time I fixed anything. :(
Roofing nailer has become my favorite. Re-shingling that section was taking us 15 minutes per 3 rows nailing it by hand (first roofing nailer I bought jammed)
With the roofing nailer, I completed the entire rest of it (20 rows, plus weaving) in less than 15 minutes.
I bought the nail gun because I'm having leaks in two valleys over the front door when we get wind-driven rain out of the south ... I'm probably going to have to pull and weave them.
Next house that my GF and I have .. which we will have together in and will live in together, unlike our current commuting relationship .. will be gorgeous and perfectly done
heh ... yeah, after hiring a few people to do things that I thought I couldn't do, I keep finding that I often know more than the pros, so I don't bother anymore.
Even when I screw it up, I screw it up less than they do
I outsource the roof work, but when I did my first plumbing project, I got an appointment for the next morning, shutoff the water, tried it myself, and then canceled the appointment
Yeah, I graduated from puling nails to replacing outlets and doing minor plumbing when I was 12, which made my day. Learned roofing and some minor masonry about that time too.
@Aaron I have the same MT-22, and you're right; the best way is to put it up with the top extended and then push the bottom half up until it's extended.
Yeah, you wanna have a good time and don't care about the consequences? Get a bullhorn, walk around the back of a restaurant, pound on the door, and yell "LA MIGRA!" through the megaphone. And make sure your getaway car is handy.
one of the bosses was telling us an inspector showed up early at one site, sat in his car for about 15 minutes looking through paperwork, and when he looked back up all the workers had disappeared
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