Without Sin

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I'm a middle aged, childless, balding, slightly chubby around the middle, wrinkled man who is polyamorous, passionate, friendly and hates to use the phone. I laugh out loud, scream at god and chaos, cry quietly, and always always always believe that people are good and worthy. Except George Bush and his ilk. They're just evil.

Monday, August 28, 2006

Wired

So a good bit got done over the weekend at the studio/gallery. ON Saturday after yard sales of course...... Crystal and I started on the wall for the existing garage door. By 7 PM we had put up the wall, faced it with OSB and put in a window. Sure sure sure, we didn't have all the screws we needed in the OSB and the window wasn't quite all finished but we were bushed! We assembled the wall on the floor after taking careful measurements and then we stood it up to slide it into the old garage door opening. It was a shade too tall so we just jacked up the wall a tiny bit. :) Car jacks are very good building assistants. We went to get OSB at the local wood products store only to find out that they'd closed at noon. So we went to Alamosa to find it. Those two stores were also closed. We went to my friend Ernie's house and got a couple sheets of OSB outta his pile (I left him a message and paid him for 'em on Monday). Then we got it all faced and threw in the window before we went to our houses to sleep a bit.

Sunday I went over and cleaned up our mess from Saturday. Then I got the job site ready. At a bit after 10 my friend Roger showed up. His wife Marian came an hour or so after that. They're both electricians. An hour or two after that my buddy Tim came by and then Crystal showed up. We were wiring fools! My first job was to drag a copper wire from the back of the house to the water pipe up front. The electrical panel has to be bonded to the incoming water pipe and it HAS to be at the front and immediate entrance. :) That house is a hundred years old and underneath is all cut up and has bunches of walls and you have to keep going up and down throught the floor to get from one rooms crawlspace to the other. We finally finished that (Tim and I) and my next task was running a wire for a subpaned through the attic. From up to down. Both were dusty and nasty. UG. Roger and I had set the new panel in when he first got there so that was done too. While I was doing my two jobs Roger and Marian and Crystal were running wire all through the new garage.

It was a day full of work and fun. We had pizza and Que' Papas from Pizza Hut. Lots of laughing and an abrasion here and there. At then end of Sunday it was 90% wired in the garage. AND it was all cleaned up too. We'll try to finish the rest in a week or two. :) And I'll update when I get the chance. I'd be working tonight but I'm beat.

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