Yeah, I'm up pretty early... 'cause I slept almost all damned day yesterday!
I'd told Tyler as he was sleeping downstairs (after I'd woke him up, of course) that we'd start working at about 14:00. Well, I got up at 14:00 and Tyler was up too, said that he'd just got up. I just shook my head and went back to bed.
Got up about 18:30 finally and Tyler was gone and so was Karen. I'd told her to wake me up when she got home around 16:00 but she'd forgotten that I told her that...
But there was a relatively fresh pot of coffee on so I drank that (later finding out that it was decaff...) and checked my mail, etc. Karen got home an hour later and we sat around for a while, then I went back to bed about 21:00, completely unable to keep my eyes open.
I finally got up about 03:00 and goofed around for a while. I put a new aerial on the CD player that I bought a few months ago to take to work. I brought it home for my vacation; someone had broken the antennae off, I have no idea how the fuck people do that... it must take an awful combination of clutziness and ignorance of mechanics and a complete disregard for other peoples' property. Initially, I didn't really worry about it, but the more I thought about it the more pissed off I got, until I decided to not even take it back. Actually, the aerial that I put on it is not collapsible, so I really couldn't... now it's sitting in the computer room, permanently tuned to KANU, the Lawrence/KU public station.
And now I'm going to read the directions on the new ceiling fan and probably mount it today, just to make sure that it works. I'll have to take it down to put up the sheet rock, of course...
More later...
11:55...
Tyler got home about 04:30, last night was his first night at work at Papa Joes Sub Shoppe in Lawrence. Anyway, we started working and got up a coupla panels of sheet rock and then we worked on the ceiling.
Remember how I said that the roof joists were crooked and not properly lined up? Well, that's coming into play big-time now, because the sheet rock needs to be attached on both edges... so the joists have to be 24 inches on center... but they aren't. So, since we can't replace the joists, we will have to cut each piece of sheet rock to line up. Which would be OK if the joists were straight and just not 24 IOC, but they're 24 IOC at the top and 22 IOC at the bottom.
But... I just figgered out a better way of doing it. It would have been better if I would have thought of this earlier, but better late than never...
I'm simply going to screw 2X2s onto the joists where they are not straight, giving me enough room to fasten the sheet rock. It would have been easier before we put up the vapor barrier, but what the hell.
Damn, I'm brilliant!
Karen's mother is much better now, so Debbie will be coming up today. Karen is getting off at 13:00 and I'm taking her out to eat after she gets home. I love going to lunch on a weekday after the business crowd has left... usually the service is better and it's just a whole lot more relaxing and Karen and I can just sit and talk.
15:48
And we did, and it was nice.
Sometimes... sometimes you just have to slow down, re-think what's important to you and your relationships. When Karen and I go out to eat, I feel that's what we're doing. Spending time together, getting to know each other...
Yes, getting to know each other. After all, we change on a regular basis, or at least the people that I know do... no, not big changes, just the incremental changes brought about by living every day. I believe that it's really important to keep up with these changes, because they might occasionally herald larger changes and leave you in the dust. A place where I don't want to be...
I'm really tired now, but I can't just go to sleep, Debbie will be here shortly and we're going out to look at our cabinets again, try to make some decisions tonight about the arrangement of aforesaid cabinets in our new kitchen.
17:25...
Well, dammit, Debbie's not coming tonight, but she will come in the morning. But Karen and I are still going to look at the cabinets again tonight so we can decide what's what. However, Kim has a parent-teacher conference tonight, so the grandkids will be over shortly... hopefully, we will be able to go see the cabinets on time...
More tomorrow...