When a problem comes along you must whip it.

So the past 2 days have been fairly productive. I finished sanding all of the lower portion of the hallway and stairs. It is fairly non-wavy now, which is good. I had a chance to mow the lawn and rake the front and the back to get rid of the weeds. Grace and I also worked on the back along the fence. We decided to go ahead and just chop everything down. So I took the chainsaw and started going at it. It worked fine. At least now we can get to all of the vines and start to get rid of those too. Then we can finally have room to put up the fence.

Today I had to go to Hanover to get some paint stripper. I came home and started to spray some of the weeds in the back. Well it started to thunder so I figured it was going to rain. So I moved inside and started to work on the window sill again to remove all of the paint. And thats about it.

I will start to work more on stripping the trim and working on mudding the higher stuff on the walls.

Until then I will:
whip it
into shape
shape it up
get straight
go forward
move ahead
try to detect
it it's not too late
to whip it
whip it good
When a good time turns around
You must whip it
You will never live it down
Unless you whip it
No one gets their way
Until they whip it
I say whip it
Whip it good

OH DEVO. WHAT MAKES YOU SO WISE WITH THE WORDS THAT ARE NEEDED TO MOTIVATE US?

What is REALLY in a title?

Is it supposed to give the reader a quick couple words that would dually impact and summarize the article/book/whatever? I am not very good with titles as you may see.

Anyways. Once again I have been busy with work. So busy that I finally finished applying the most recent round of mud on the wall. Ok OK, I know, I did spend a lot of the day catching up on other stuff such as TV shows and internet stuff etc. But I needed to relax for a bit. For some reason I have been a little on edge with many puzzles. This may sound odd, but for some reason there have been many puzzles and riddles that have crept up on me lately. You may even be puzzled about what I am talking about. Well, for one thing I have been reading the Da Vinci code. Grace recommended that I read it before going to the movie. That book is pretty good and it has the operative word of the day "puzzles".

Next, we have both been keeping up with LOST the TV show. That show is puzzling and addictive within itself. BUT, now they have this ARG (alternate reality game) on the web. It is hard to explain but, there are clues hidden on the web and in TV commercials which sortof correspond with the LOST TV show. I was kindof happy today b/c I actually found a clue before a bunch of other people on the BLOGS that I am reading about the subject. I think it was b/c it occurred during lunch when people were away from their desks. I don't particular;y do well on the ARG b/c there are a lot of other people on there that know how to read source code and break down flash movies and such on the web to find the clues. I just kindof keep up with what they find and say "AHHHH that's what is going on", in my head not out loud.

This isn't really puzzle related but, for some reason I just started listening to NPR again. I listen every so often but I actually am listening to it right now. I don't know why, it is just sortof puzzling. I guess it is b/c I like watching the news sometimes and haven't had a chance to do it lately so I can listen and do other stuff at the same time. Very puzzling. Why am I not listening to music? I don't know. Well whatever. It's not killing anyone.

What really may be puzzling is where I am going with this blog today. Well nowhere really, I just felt like rambling on about nothing.

I could tell you that Grace and I had a fun night on our one year anniversary. We went to Edo's Squid and then to a play at the Firehouse Theater. That was fun. We did have some trouble with the cab company but we got over it. They were just really slow and such.

That's about all. I am helping with a training burn tomorrow for the cadets in the high school tech center program that the county is putting on. So no working on the house tomorrow. Then I work Sun. Mon I have off so I will sand the walls or cut the grass or something. Then more overtime on Tues. Then work on Wed. So don't expect to see much progress on the house for the next week or so. Eventually it will get done. And that's about it. Talk later.

Do you ever feel like you do the same thing every day?

Sometimes I do. Then I think to myself, "Self, you have thought of this before. Ergo you have done this same thing before." So what did I do yesterday you ask? Take a look at the past blogs and you may see a trend.
I:
A-Sanded
B-Put mud up
C-Went on a LifeNet call
D-Worked at the fire station


The answer for yesterday was...............
A-Sanded
Therefore the answer for today is...........
B- put more mud up

OH I forgot I did do something fun and exciting and different yesterday.
I went on the roof and crawled around in the attic for a while. Why would I do this you may ask. Well the roof is leaking in the bedroom. Isn't that exciting? (insert hint of sarcasm here) So I went on the roof to look for holes. You may ask (if you are weird like me and have conversations in your head sometimes) but Andrew you only have a short ladder how did you get to the roof?
Well my fine friend, I have a super secret spy hatch in the attic that goes to the roof. Actually if I were inclined to I could probably break into every single house on my side of the block just by going through everyone's hatch that is on their roof. None of them are locked. At least I am guessing. And I could easily jump from roof to roof. That reminds me I was going to get a lock for that sometime.
I also cut the grass yesterday. The grass is coming along well. I have been aggressively been trying to kill all the weeds and moss with chemicals and raking. I rake the back yard about once or twice a week and it leaves the strong grass but gets rid of the moss and weeds that aren't as strong as grass.
I think I will go and get some pics that I have been promising. BRB

Here's the back yard from the upstairs. You can see the weeds dying and the leftover regular grass.

Here is the border that we made a week or so ago.

Here is a pic of the garage sans vines.

Here's the hallway going down the stairs. You can see some of the still damp mud in it.

that's all I feel like loading up right now. Oh wait here's a good pic of everybody's favorite singer.

Kit save me from this photo shoot now. Is it just me or is the Pepsi bottle throwing up in the picture? Ok maybe we are both puking. Anyways I will leave you on that great note.

Hot Off the Press

I know that there are extremists for every point of view of anything. But, for some reason this doesn't seem to fit together:
http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=34089

Where in the Bible does it say "Thou shallt dress up like a ninja before burning down an adult book store?" I can't find that particular passage. Sorry.

Title we don' need need no stinkin title

So......lately people thought we have died or something since we haven't done anything on the blog. Well in all honesty it's b/c I haven't had the time. In between of work and all I have been working on the house. The remainder is a summary of the stuff we have been doing:
Mud and cutting.
That is about it.
I have been mudding the wall and sanding it off. Mudding the wall and sanding it off. you see the problem is that it takes many layers to try to get it all nice and smooth. But.....there are a lot of ridges and valleys in our walls so it is taking many steps to get it right. I always seem to find a spot that I had missed before so I have to mud that up and then sand it flush with the rest of the wall. I think eventually our hallway will be about 2 feet wide with all the mud I am putting on it. But hey it will be smooth like a babies butt.
I worked outside some when it was nice too. I finally got all the roots off of the wall on the garage. We also had this funky looking tree in the back. It was kindof cool looking in a Joshua tree mixed with vines kindof way. Almost like a super big bonzi tree. Well I was cleaning out vines around the area and I was looking at the tree. Then I pushed against the tree. It moved too much to be a tree. You actually couldn't really see the tree b/c of all the vines growing around it which is some of its appeal. But I got to thinking. That is a weak tree, I said to myself. It looks cool but it may fall soon. So since I had called the city to do a bulk pickup of yard stuff I decided to cut the tree down. Well believe it or not there wasn't a tree there at all. Just 5 vines about 2" thick. I think what happened was that there used to be a tree there, but, the vines wrapped themselves around the tree and killed it. Then the tree eventually rotted out from under the vines but the vines lived. So they kept the shape of the original tree. All that actually was there was the vines. Pretty wacky. I will have to get a pic of it to show you. So I cut up the vine/tree and put it on the plie to be picked up. They came by and picked up the pile today which was pretty cool.
And thats about it. I logged in 43 overtime hours in the past 2 weeks and several LifeNet calls so thats all I have had time to do. I will get the pics up soon and let y'all see what has been going on.