Doohicksie

Dahlin was there but didn't look back to see who was coming. Gotta show better awareness.

So I had to cut the cabinet away around the pipes. By the way: You may notice the hot water feeds are still connected. That's because the hot water shut off valves don't.... quite.... shut off. Connecting both ends of the dishwasher supply line was the only way I could think of to prevent the constant drip drip drip.

My wife left to see her parents this morning, and I primed some of the walls to cover up the old dingy paint and the ceiling where cabinets were removed. Again, trying to be quiet because my son was sleeping. Once he left for work I started to make some noise. I dove into the pit of hell: The plumbing under the sink. Because the original galvanized supply lines that came through the wall were replaced by copper lines coming up out of the floor but the outside faucet branches off the new pipes and go out through the wall, the only way to get the sink cabinet out was to cut away the area around the pipes. You can see the setup when I started:

So I got this done on Sunday, plus also some repair of drywall holes in areas where I'm not replacing wholesale, and some spackling.

I've waited a bit to post. In a nutshell... I'm not seeing it. I hope that he was playing a stogy system without a lot of creativity and once he gets used to the Granato system he will fit in but no matter what line he's on, in the offensive zone he's playing checkers while the rest of the forwards and often the Dmen are playing three-dimensional chess. I will admit that he has toughness in the D zone and is good at breaking up threats, and maybe that's all they're really looking for out of the guy, but seriously I see a guy who's processing the game at troglodyte speed while the rest of the team is Mensa. I'm not saying he's making poor decisions; it seems like he just takes to long to make decisions and react to the plays around him.

Okay, not score on this power play!

After all the clutching and grabbing by the Rangers they call Girgs for a hook???

I'm in that awkward time on the weekend when I can't make loud noise. My son works a Midnight-to-Noon shift Saturday morning and Sunday morning and has to sleep in between. So I worked in the kitchen this morning- put in the flooring under the stove- and now I'm going to be doing some spackling and painting. Tomorrow I will either start some of the drywall replacement or work on cabinet removal. Fun stuff.

Next week is spring break for her; she's going home to visit her infirm parents. She actually leaves Monday because the flight was cheaper that way. My goal is to have the cabinet shells, counter tops and kitchen sink installed by the time she returns. I'm taking the coming week off so this will be my full time job.

No pics but.... I'm replacing the backsplash and the most effective way of removing the old tile is to cut away the drywall and replace it. One may wonder how me, a guy who drives a Fiat 500, gets drywall from Lowe's? Well obviously the Fiat wasn't going to suffice, and even my wife's Escape can't handle 48" wide sheets. So I thought and thought and thought.... I asked if Lowe's would do a cut on a sheet of drywall to make it two, two-foot wide strips and they said no to drywall cutting (they *do* cut plywood, but not drywall). So this morning I went over to the school where my wife teaches, swapped out the Fiat for the Escape, drove over to Lowe's with fully charged Craftsman V20 batteries, bought a V20 cordless circular saw along with two sheets of drywall and supplies, and two 2x4s. I cut the drywall into two-by-eight foot wide stripes, put the 2x4s in the hatch, then laid the drywall on top. I've measured out the lengths of the drywall sections and did some pre-cuts, about an inch longer than I think I will need, to make it easier to handle them when I'm ready to do the final cuts. I can replace the first two sections without taking out the kitchen sink so I may do that. Then I gave myself a haircut, walked the dogs, and took the wife out to dinner.

Well, since last Saturday, I haven't done too much that's obvious. I re-installed the light over the sink (which was previously mounted to the bottom of a cabinet. I cleanedup and spackled where the old cabinets were. I'm going to cut out the wall where the backsplash is and put in new drywall. But that will have to be after I get the sink cabinet out since I'm going all the way around. I want to get as much done as possible before pulling the sink out though, so it's a bunch of smaller, subtle things. So I'm going to replace all this dryall:

Good night all.

Goal by Cozens. On Comrie. 😞

Well *****.

Power play is lame so far.

ESPN+ blackout for me in north Texas. Glad I can watch it on Bally Sports on Spectrum. No Dunleavy/Ray and... I'm kind of disappointed.

Let me fix that for you Donny: Skinner-Thompson-Greenway Mittelstadt-Cozens-Quinn Peterka-Krebs-Hinostroza Girgensons-Jost-Okposo Olofsson extra I don't think Greenway lasts the whole game on the top line. There will be juggling.

Not so much the loss but that the winning goal was just WTFed.

Dammit. I'm back in. They'll make it; mark my words.

You have no idea how idiotic the officials are. Making the rules idiot proof for those idiots is unpossible. The refs got it right. Toronto overturned them.

It works in every city but Buffalo, actually...