Closet. Simple, right? A little paint, a little light, some shelves.
Simple? The way multi-variable calculus is simple.
Paint? After washing 40 years of crud from the walls, maybe.
Light? Don’t get me started on finding electricity in this joint.
Shelves? Finding studs is impossible because of the foil-backed insulation. The regular wallboard fasteners that come with Closetmaid stuff don’t work on the back wall, since it’s the wall between the house and the garage, and therefore double sheetrock.
Nothing major. There’s a workaround for everything. But it’s like being pecked to death by ducks. It hurts, and it takes MUCH too long.
Grubs killed my lawn. I picked up a clump of deceased sod today, and there were literally dozens of the little bastards crawling around in it. I nearly hurled (grubs are pretty nasty to look at). I’ll be commiting grubicide soon. Then I think I’m going to have to turn under the whole lot of the dead grass and seed everything.
Ah, the joy of home ownership!
With the temperature dropping so much in 2007, I’m figuring that it means we beat global warming, right?
So does Bush get the credit for that, or does he only get blamed for not enacting the socialist agenda of the Warmists?
Thought so.
Wallboard compound can grow mold. I shit you not.
Removed the shelves from the big closet, and I wanted to fill in the nail holes and gouges. Nothing fancy, it is only a closet after all. I opened the little can of joint compound, and it’s moldy. Which is pretty nasty. Tossed that. Got the little pail of spackle. Hard as a brick. Grabbed the big pail of joint compound, which has a piece of plastic over the stuff (of which there is not a lot left), and it was fine.
So I got the holes filled. But the lesson here - always cover your joint.
Compound. Joint compound. Yeah.
Scott Adams (Dilbert author and self-described lousy politician) asks if a strong economy is not a sufficient deterrent against aggressive states.
As with many things he posts, it is impossible to tell if he’s merely playing Devil’s Advocate here or being serious. But I took the time to say something about it:
I think we (The U.S. and China) have nukes pointed at each other simply to say “we’ve got nukes pointed at you, so don’t start anything funny”. Other than that, there’s no conceivable situation that ends up with the US and China shooting each other. Like Y2K, there’s too much money to lose if the worst case comes to pass.
As far as an ROI on Iraq, it’s a very long term play, which is something that Americans are not very good at conceptualizing. Most Americans don’t plan past dinner tonight, so looking out 20, 50, 100 years is pretty much not a consideration.
In all seriousness, the ROI argument when applied to WWII doesn’t look good until 20-30 years after the war ended. But I think you’ll agree that things are much better in Europe and Asia as a result of our investment of blood and money to take down two vicious empires.
The long-term goal of the Iraq war is a good one. Whether it is attainable is something that only time will tell. But to write it off as an impossibility is to write off the future of a third of humanity. I’m not entirely sure that’s what we want to do.
