Blaze & Daze

Happy hump day!

Coffee to all may you have a great day and a better night

Anyone in any way interested/challenged in psychology/ego handling - check this thread I made just a while ago.

The cat laid on top of the dog's food. She didn't eat it, she just curled up in the bowl... I think she heard me calling her a bully. And zhe stinks like kibble now

Someone remind me to get coffee at the store later, I am outta beans after this pot.

depression is just another word for not enough coffee.

The Sacred Capybara came to me in a dream, and told me to take a half day today.
Going to get some yard work done and grill some kind of domesticated swine (not equine!) for the lady friend/landlord. Should be an awesome afternoon.

Had the first cherry tomato from the garden, wonderful burst of flavor. Maybe I will be able to get a harvest that ends up in the house this year. I promised her a BLT before last season, and I have not been able to pay up lol.

Anyways, t minus 60 minutes until I join the queue of the wretched and unwashed IT masses.
Another pot of coffee consumed, and yet no plan for escape from this orbit. The gravity of responsibility will drag me, kicking and screaming, through my day, again.

There is always tomorrow, until there isn't.

laddyd said:

depression is just another word for not enough coffee.

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The trick is finding enough coffee to quiet the depression, and not enough to exacerbate the anxiety. I am terrible at finding that goldilocks threshold. lol.

How about some Wednesday morning garden pics.
These two look about ready, 7 weeks of flower 84 days old, Sloopy [slurricane x gushers x unicorn poop].
Moving the center plants to water the perimeter plants and then a group shot. They are nearing senescence.

Smoke report is in. Purple poop is the shit.

I haven't done the wednesday showoff in a while.

laddyd said:

You do nice work.

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Thank you! It's hard to believe when I bought this house I had a single drill and a 150piece set of Craftsman ratchets I got in the late 90's. The first week in the house back in 2008, youtube trade school and I re-plumbed both the upstairs bathrooms, one of which needed new drywall.

I look at the drywall I did in year 1 and compare it to now, and holy crap I've gotten so much better. I can't wait to get back around to that bathroom and fix my mistakes.

Today we had the carpet installed. Once the installers were done, I did a couple hours of youtube trade school and tried my hand at floating plank flooring installation for the first time in the downstairs closet. Trial test before I tackle the 500 sq feet of LPV on the middle floor of the house. Don't mind the loose baseboards, that's just puzzling the miter and coping joints back together and checking the color of the trim paint. Finally going to have my living room back before the end of next week.

>Happy Dance<

RetiredToker76 said:

Thank you! It's hard to believe when I bought this house I had a single drill and a 150piece set of Craftsman ratchets I got in the late 90's. The first week in the house youtube trade school and I re-plumbed both the upstairs bathrooms, once of which needed new drywall.

I look at the drywall I did in 2008 and compare it to now, and holy crap I've gotten much better. Can't wait to get back around to that bathroom and fix my mistakes.

Today we had the carpet installed and following that I tried my hand at floating plank flooring installation in the downstairs closets before I tackle the 500 sq feet of LPV on the middle floor of the house. Don't mind the loose baseboards, that's just puzzling the miter and coping joints back together and checking the color of the trim paint. Finally going to have my living room back before the end of next week.

>Happy Dance<

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Are you still planning on moving west?

laddyd said:

Are you still planning on moving west?

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Yes, it's just a matter of when. Some chuckle fart investor brothers bought every last bit of livable and affordable real estate in Vegas the exact same weekend we flew out there in 2023. We got home to find every house we looked at that weekend or had bookmarked was pending or sold. That left the market with only absolute dumps and $650K and up properties. It didn't recover by the time we wanted to move (before child-spawn started high school.)

Since kiddo has now gotten firmly established in her high school, we've decided to wait until she graduates and gets booted out to the upper echelons of being a college puke. That puts us back to 2028, which we decided to just use the extra time to get the house to the best possible sale quality instead of rushing and just slapping paint up and running. Which is what we were planning until Vegas became basically rental only during our ideal launch window.

So we'll turn that around into another 3 years of upgrading our house to having spiffy Rave / Tron LEDs in every room and 3 more years of 3 equity since we're on the back half of our mortgage.