god damn I am productive today
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solarbirdChemistry midterm two was held this morning; I think I did okay. I had to haul ass on it, though, which was kind of disturbing - tho' somewhat less so when I found that the last page and a half were the easy questions so you could coast home, and a little more less so when I found out that everybody did, and not everyone I would expect to finish it managed to do so. Regardless, I only had about five minutes to check things instead of like last time, when I was able to redo the entire test waiting for the bell.
I also anticipated a name-of-scientist question so got the four probable answers into my head right before the test, then flipped through to find that one and fill it in first while I could keep the weird little system I'd set up to be able to hold the names in my head for more than about 20 seconds in my head. I think it worked, too, so HA. TAKE THAT.
Anyway, afterwards, I stopped at True Value on the Ave (the one with the great "A Worker's Paradise" mural I photographed in the spring) for glue and two new banister supports to supplement the two they'd already put in (not enough), and while I was there, fixed the shifter display on my bike. Then I got to murksouth and really got razy with the productivity: I took care of the bus stop garbage, cleaned my workshop for the first time in much, much too long, fixed the broken rake, cleaned and reset the table saw, cut a bunch of spacers for the murknorth posts that I need to fix/redo, and bent the metal mending plate for the murksouth banister that's wobbly because it really wasn't designed smartly to begin with. Then I biked home:
Thursday's token: 0.1 miles
Friday's miles: 12.3
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1189.3
Miles out of Rivendell: 724.3
Miles out of Lothlórien: 269.3
Miles to Rauros Falls: 139.7
...emailed Lake Forest Park about the freaky leak in the road (I presume it's a leaking water main, but it's still weird looking), primed the wood I'd scraped on the porch and front step banisters and railing, anchored the wobbly banister (bad engineering) and primed the metal pending plate, put on both new banister supports on the other side (less wobby, but similarly underbuilt; that's improved now), caulked a bunch, and basically, everything is sturdier and less vulnerable to rain.
Oh yeah, I haven't mentioned - what got all this started, aside from paint issues in general, was noticing that all the post tops that they'd just decided to cut and paint were failing at the top. So this all started with a plan to put caps on them, at which point I really noticed that there were other problems too that could be easily fixed at the same time. But then fixing the posts themselves turned out to be more difficult because of the stupid cutting trick they did, so I've got the sander up here and some 36 grit sandpaper to grind down the tops, and I cut a bunch of 4x4 squares that are about 5/16ths of an inch thick to space some back out of needed, and then I can put on the caps.
I've got three kinds for three different areas. ^_^ One set (stairwell) are minimalist copper that I hope will turn nicely green over time as it oxidises, another two (lower banister, doesn't need much work but has the post problem) are larger, kind of trimmed out, and have pre-oxidised copper tops, and around the main porch/deck: cobalt blue glass. OooooOOOoooo.
Tonight I have to read the next chapter and start on the homework which is due Monday at 10pm, for which we have unfortunately had no lectures yet. Oh well, I hope the book makes sense!
I also anticipated a name-of-scientist question so got the four probable answers into my head right before the test, then flipped through to find that one and fill it in first while I could keep the weird little system I'd set up to be able to hold the names in my head for more than about 20 seconds in my head. I think it worked, too, so HA. TAKE THAT.
Anyway, afterwards, I stopped at True Value on the Ave (the one with the great "A Worker's Paradise" mural I photographed in the spring) for glue and two new banister supports to supplement the two they'd already put in (not enough), and while I was there, fixed the shifter display on my bike. Then I got to murksouth and really got razy with the productivity: I took care of the bus stop garbage, cleaned my workshop for the first time in much, much too long, fixed the broken rake, cleaned and reset the table saw, cut a bunch of spacers for the murknorth posts that I need to fix/redo, and bent the metal mending plate for the murksouth banister that's wobbly because it really wasn't designed smartly to begin with. Then I biked home:
Thursday's token: 0.1 miles
Friday's miles: 12.3
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1189.3
Miles out of Rivendell: 724.3
Miles out of Lothlórien: 269.3
Miles to Rauros Falls: 139.7
...emailed Lake Forest Park about the freaky leak in the road (I presume it's a leaking water main, but it's still weird looking), primed the wood I'd scraped on the porch and front step banisters and railing, anchored the wobbly banister (bad engineering) and primed the metal pending plate, put on both new banister supports on the other side (less wobby, but similarly underbuilt; that's improved now), caulked a bunch, and basically, everything is sturdier and less vulnerable to rain.
Oh yeah, I haven't mentioned - what got all this started, aside from paint issues in general, was noticing that all the post tops that they'd just decided to cut and paint were failing at the top. So this all started with a plan to put caps on them, at which point I really noticed that there were other problems too that could be easily fixed at the same time. But then fixing the posts themselves turned out to be more difficult because of the stupid cutting trick they did, so I've got the sander up here and some 36 grit sandpaper to grind down the tops, and I cut a bunch of 4x4 squares that are about 5/16ths of an inch thick to space some back out of needed, and then I can put on the caps.
I've got three kinds for three different areas. ^_^ One set (stairwell) are minimalist copper that I hope will turn nicely green over time as it oxidises, another two (lower banister, doesn't need much work but has the post problem) are larger, kind of trimmed out, and have pre-oxidised copper tops, and around the main porch/deck: cobalt blue glass. OooooOOOoooo.
Tonight I have to read the next chapter and start on the homework which is due Monday at 10pm, for which we have unfortunately had no lectures yet. Oh well, I hope the book makes sense!
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Date: 2006-07-29 03:36 pm (UTC)What's really embarrassing about this situation (probably another of our new facility's infamous design flaws) is that this is the Transportation Cabinet's building. :-( You'd think the highway department would have a garage with good drainage.
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Date: 2006-07-29 04:28 pm (UTC)