Some normality now...
May. 17th, 2004 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonBtw, today is an official non-career day... I left the book at home and won't be responding to comments on that post either. I will respond to all of them next time I sit down for some thinkin', which will be soon, and if you've turned on the option that lets you get comments by email, you'll get my responses. :)
So, guess what? On top of all the issue-type stuff I've been typing about, I had a normal weekend too--and got a lot done despite sort of losing Friday and Saturday evening to stuff HLM wanted to do. I guess it was a bit boring--I did a lot of painting, not even counting my YAY sign. I painted half of the front stairwell, covering over the last of the grime, and I did some painting in the bedroom too, continuing the light blue design around the room (though not the dark blue, so it's still not quite done). Then I bought primer and paint for redoing the back porch rail next weekend. Paint, paint, flexagons like to paint!
I also sparred, did a "hand techniques" TKD workout and did my squats (along with quads and SLDLs, but no upper body). I meant to do the same exact thing I did last week, but, argh, I made math mistakes while loading up the plates and ended up topping out at 90 pounds instead of 95! Of course I didn't realize this until I had already done the 90, and was too tired to figure out what would make up the disparity. So, I'm not too sore today but it might have just been because I inadvertantly slacked. :(
Oh, and lastly, while walking past Economy Hardware on Saturday night (coming from a play we saw at MIT) we glanced in and saw exactly the coffee table we'd been looking for: oval, glass, black frame, and pretty inexpensive. So we were able to cancel the order we had at Pier 1 and buy that one isntead, and they've delivered it already. Yay for finding the perfect coffee table just in time!
A contractor is going to rebuild a few steps of our back stairway starting tomorrow morning, prior to another contractor coming to refinish the entire stairway. I have no idea why the upstairs neighbor is so obsessed with the back stairs... but once it's done we know she'll be more amenable to fixing the house's real problems, like the disintegrating parts of the porch stack. So this is good, in kind of an abstract way.
Yeah, it was a pretty full couple of days.
So, guess what? On top of all the issue-type stuff I've been typing about, I had a normal weekend too--and got a lot done despite sort of losing Friday and Saturday evening to stuff HLM wanted to do. I guess it was a bit boring--I did a lot of painting, not even counting my YAY sign. I painted half of the front stairwell, covering over the last of the grime, and I did some painting in the bedroom too, continuing the light blue design around the room (though not the dark blue, so it's still not quite done). Then I bought primer and paint for redoing the back porch rail next weekend. Paint, paint, flexagons like to paint!
I also sparred, did a "hand techniques" TKD workout and did my squats (along with quads and SLDLs, but no upper body). I meant to do the same exact thing I did last week, but, argh, I made math mistakes while loading up the plates and ended up topping out at 90 pounds instead of 95! Of course I didn't realize this until I had already done the 90, and was too tired to figure out what would make up the disparity. So, I'm not too sore today but it might have just been because I inadvertantly slacked. :(
Oh, and lastly, while walking past Economy Hardware on Saturday night (coming from a play we saw at MIT) we glanced in and saw exactly the coffee table we'd been looking for: oval, glass, black frame, and pretty inexpensive. So we were able to cancel the order we had at Pier 1 and buy that one isntead, and they've delivered it already. Yay for finding the perfect coffee table just in time!
A contractor is going to rebuild a few steps of our back stairway starting tomorrow morning, prior to another contractor coming to refinish the entire stairway. I have no idea why the upstairs neighbor is so obsessed with the back stairs... but once it's done we know she'll be more amenable to fixing the house's real problems, like the disintegrating parts of the porch stack. So this is good, in kind of an abstract way.
Yeah, it was a pretty full couple of days.
