Accident Prone

Casting Call?

2012-05-27T00:51:40Z

Wow I just got a request for a Casting call for season two of Doomsday Preppers on National Geographic...

I'm clueless what to do, and I've never actually seen the show so I dunno if it is about post opoctalictic survivalists, which I'd avoid if that was the case cause the bunker is for Tornadoes and Hurricanes, the Mayans are wrong LOL.

Anyone know anything about the show?

I'll Google it tommorrow of course, and can find out for myself, but if it was for people prepping for disasters like I do for Hurricanes I'm interested but I am clueless as to what a casting call actually is, and is there a couch involved?

Pools Done!

2012-05-17T19:06:57Z

And it went from sixty nine degrees to seventy nine in five days!

I also got the handicap lift installed so the next project is to put a shower stall in the pool house along with a toilet, sink and changing bench, and put a door over the pump room.

I picked up twenty pieces of half inch BC sanded on one side plywood to cover the walls since it is generally a damp type area witht eh well and all the plumbing for the pool in there, so a leak can flood the place pretty quick.

I planned ahead years before I started build my home, cause we owned the house next door at the time and wanted the pool on this lot instead of the one we were in since we had it up for sale. I wanted the well and pool house slab done before they set the level of the deck cause I didn't trust them to set it at the right level so my back drive didn't slop towards the house or away from it really steep. and I didn't want stairs even though Mary a long way from being in a wheelchair back then.

I used a hose with clear tubes on each end of it to measure back from where my septic would be down to the height of the bottom floor, and from there down to the pool deck.

I had to set the pool house itself up two stairs cause the lot slopes so much and the way I needed the drive to go it would have been in a pit or my berm wouldn't have held up in the long run or the pool house would get flooded, but I plumbed the sewer lines in and stobbed them off for the shower and all, and did the same thing for the sprinklers, water to the house and the pool power and even a hardwired internet connectiong LOL.

I used to have to run my pump fourteen hours a day to keep it clean then did some research since my pump was fried and discovered it was undersized, and needs a horse and a half minimum, so I leaned towards the bigger and got a two horse unit, then redid the plumbing so when the three inch and a half return lines converged they go up to a two inch line and a short hop to the pump intake, and ran two inches out to the filter and you can see the difference just by looking at the skimmers really pulling in the water.

We got some rain and I had to drain an inch of water out and it did it in eight minutes, so doing some math in my head I should be able to circulate thirty thousand gallons of water in seven to eight hours which will make a big difference in the power bill.

Pool truthfully are a pain to have hahhaha, but this will benefit Mary and I am working in my head on a firepit Redneck style pool heater by placing coiled stainless pipe inside a plate steel box, filling it with fine sand blasting sand to act as a thermal battery, using some really heavy guage sheet metal I have to cap it then build a fire pit out of plate steel and welding the box and pipe in the center, running a length of stainless up hill to the pool because I will put this behind the pool and pretty close to being as low as the pool bottom.

Without needing a chimney I'll be able to burn most anything including pine which my wife is not allergic to the smoke of, but is from Oak, and when I get to the pool deck edge I'll rig up some one inch car heater hose to a disconnect, add in a thermal switch and a hotwater pump I just happen to have, and I have an power outlet right where it will be located so I can just plug it in.

If I run one length of heater hose to the top of the pool and a longer one to the bottom the water will circulate even if it doesn't get hot enough to trip the pump, so I'll even be able to burn leaves in it and get free heat.

Having a pine tree farm is a big plus to! I have an endless supply of pine and it needs thinned so I can spend a day up there and bring home enough to have a week long bonfire.

The woodburner styled pool heaters that have a regular size fire box, but need to have a flue and be mounted indoor claim to put out four hundred thousand BTU's which would raise the pool water a degree an hour so I think even though this isn't as efficient it will be way more practical since I always burn tree limbs and such when I am sprucing up the yard or the lot next door, and my neighbor has so many trees in his yard that he will fill my pick up to the roof three times with bagged leaves I usually burn next door for him, but would make for a good three days smoulding pile of heat every spring to wake the pool up after getting cool in the winter...

Yowza~

2012-04-29T14:34:46Z

The pool is ready for a new liner!

I've got a handicap lift to put next to it for Mary, winter cover and tubes, new pump, Chloinator and a slew of other stuff, the liner should be made by now and I got motivated yesterday with the help of Alex, and using my mini jackhammer we tore out the concrete steps I was gonna have the pool people remove for $300 and I got a bargain on the Polaris Vacume of $325, so by doing it myself and paying Alex I basically got the vacume for $60! They sell for like $650, and to have the entire system put in was expensive when we first did the pool 15? years ago cause you need a second pump and more plumbing, but everything works fine except my old vacume had turned white from the sun it was so old and the tires were crumbly, so $60 is worth having the pool vacume itself everyday LOL.

They need to make an inexpensive pool Ph monitor that adds Chlorine and other stuff to the water....

Pool maintence is a pain.

The new liner will be very dark blue with a black Tiger stripe hahhahaha!

I'll be ready to party like a Rock Star!

A Memory is a Terrible thing to Misplace!

2012-04-26T20:21:53Z

LOL, like how I keep forgetting to come over here and write.

I was sitting here thinking about what the heck have I been doing for the last three months cause honestly it's a blur, but my habit of making stupid You Tube vids and taking pictures, and I have more than 10,000 images of building the house on CD's and various computers and I wish I had remembered to reset the clock and date on my Sigma everytime the batteries died which was a lot, so they all have the same date Jan 1st of some year in the exif, but I do occasionally remember to upload stuff, and it's lucky I was in the habit before the wreck, cause just a picture is enough for me to remember whatever it was I was doing that particular day, and yeah I ramble in real life.

Anyways I was thinking about the pool getting a new liner next week, and was trying to think of how long it took to be so close to being finished with the yard for the summer except for cutting it, and I went to You Tube and remembered this all began cause I had to cut down a tree hahahhha!

It took off like I stacked dominoes to cascade upon their neighbor in a chain reaction...

If I had never cut down the tree in the dog pen, which I had to cause being dead, tall and very heavy was a serious risk, which I can see the inisurance company requiring me to have it cut down and rightly so, but to do it I had to first tear down the fence and put Wuff in the pool pen until I could cut the tree, and replace the fence.

And if your gonna build a fence,

you may as well build it just a little bit longer to hide the pool and backyard from the street since I'm next to a vacant lot, and heck go all the way and add a 90 and put up a privacy fence to really be sure, then gee a bit more fence would make for a good second dog pen so may was well do that, then of course to use it they'd need some stairs, and while doing all this since we had to move stuff around we may as well just start making piles so we only have to carry what Alex and I were taking to the dump, you start building the Adreline kicks in and when I have a helper I always have a list of things to do if they finish whatever I have them working on and wander off...

Then the insurance company that would have required me to have the tree cut down shows up in the midst of this, thinks my lab Wuff is a Wolf cause of his name, takes pictures of the sorted debris to be hauled off on amnesty day, like tires and such.

Then they drop me with no chance of reinstatement but I went through hoops to appease them and got them to reinstate it after three weeks of no insurance...

I have tires cause I use the pontoon boat as a barge when I build docks for the record, and the tires keep me from rubbing against the dock.

For the record I got rid of the car on blocks a year ago!

But I seem to have gotten a good bit done in the last three months going from the date I uploaded the vid.

I'm searching for stainless steel pipe to make a wood burning pool heater that would be similar to the wood burner I have in the workshop but I chose a dark dark blue liner with black tiger stripes that should soak up the sun pretty quickly.

I wish I hadn't been greedy when I put it in cause we have a ten foot setback from the sidelines, and my steps are eleven feet from the fence, cause I'd really like to pour a foundation around the thing and build a block building around it and fill the walls with rebar and concrete. It's on the West side of the house and I actually tied off some boards at the corners then sat here in the kitchen and if I sloped the roof away from me I can still see the entire lake and the seawall, and being that the water heater would be something I built, not something I bought, I'd naturally make the flue out of heavy pipe and short, and I could burn pine, cause the pipe could take the heat if it caught fire every now and then and clean itself out in the process, plus Mary is allergic to Oak smoke but not Pine, and I have 40 acres of pine up the road a bit that needs thinned, so I've got an endless supply of fuel.

I was also considering that I could buy prestressed concrete and make a flat foor with stairs leading up to it, adding a railing and some tables and chairs and it would hold 40 people if I was the sort to have neighborhood parties.

Technically I could go before the County Commisioners twice and more than likely get a variance cause this is a small town and we all know each other, and my neighbors wouldn't mind a bit, but I'm not likely to do that anytime soon hahhaha.

I just think about doing it once a week or so...

I got a handicap lift to mount by the pool, very simple so nothing to wear out in the long run. Made in the US completely from stainless steel, and can lift up to 400 pounds, and swings easily in a complete circle and will lower Mary into the water twenty eight inches if my cacluations are correct, which is plenty of depth to get the sling out from under her, and more importantly get her back in it, and the pool was built for water therapy so it's twenty by forty and five feet deep all across, which works out to four and a half feet of water, so she used to walk laps in it, and now with some adult water wings I found online she'll be able to float in a standing position without bumping her toes on the bottom, and will get her Moving which is good for ya!

Pools are a serious pain to maintain, and I used to hate the thing cause of that, but I'm actually looking forward to it, probably cause I don't actually remember how much of a pain they are LOL.

Life's been Hectic!

2012-04-18T23:25:48Z

This is gonna be a long post sorry, you might to want to scroll through it but geez has it been a long three weeks of stress and once again I've neglected this place I keep meaning to move back to but in the middle of Alex and I replacing the fence, the new Insurance carrior I switched to for better coverage from a better company sent out an "Inspecter" to take photos of the outside of the house which is completely normal except...

The guy showed up with Alex and I working in the back, doing the fence and stairs and making piles of junk to haul off to the dump, had cut down the huge dead pine tree cause it was a hazard, and the guy is all friendly and all and we talk about taking the stuff to the dump cause Amnesty Day was coming up and you could get rid of tires, batteries, old paint etc for free.

The County has two days a year for this so I save my old flourscent bulbs and all and anyways, I have Wuff in the fenced area for the pool, which the underwriter new was empty when I got the policy and that the liner was torn, told him his name is Wuff, and he proceeds to take pictures not so much of the house but of my piles of sorted debris, cut boards laying under my miter saw and lumber stacked to be cut since I think we were actually putting up the stairs that day, and put's in his report that I have a wolf hybred and the yard is full of construction debris, which emmediately triggered the Insurance company to send me a your dropped letter, with no chance of reinstatement and dropped me.

If I had a mortgage I'd have been screwed, but apparently no one will insure an empty pool, which seems odd cause you can't drown in it and it's still fenced to code, and since the report said I had a Wolf, no one would pick me up.

I went three weeks with no insurance at all and more or less got black balled as far as getting future insurance, but everything having a silver lining I got into Mike Mode, and Alex, my wife Mary's primary caregiver's youngest son, and I went to town on cleaning things up and finishing the steps, and since he also had commented that my yard was unkempt, probably cause I was letting weeds get tall enough to kill them with a herbicide before the grass started turning green, and I had huge dead spots I had erradicated Crab Grass from LOL, I triple seeded it and everything is just starting to really take off and the crab grass after three years seems to be gone...

The pool also was a problem but I'm getting the liner replaced next week, already got a new pump, chlorinater, winter tarp and also a handicap lift that mounts to the side of the pool so Mary will be able to get into it from her wheel chair which will do her a lotta good.

I needed a good kick inthe rear to get my lazy self movin~!

LOL

Anyways, to sum this up, there were a lot of other errors in the report, like saying this is a single story dwelling, I would think the windows on the second floor would be a clue, I decided to take the direct approach and called the insurance company, not my agent, and got a real human who actually listened to it, looked at his copy of the report with Wuff in it, and his replys was, "That's no Frickin Wolf" LOL

Honest!

After I explained the fact we had been cleaning up the yard for a couple months, he had me email him the pictures of what it looks like now, and I took Wuff by the vets, Thanks Doc!, I had to take two of the poodles in so he just looked at him and wrote something out real quick on his letterhead saying he is a Lab blend, emailed it to the guy at the insurance and an hour later he calls and says he reinstated it cause the report was totally wrong, so no more Black Ball next time I need to renew insurance, and I got the yard clean to boot!

The pool should be fixed by the weekend after next!

Progress!

2012-02-09T21:23:50Z

Stetched the fence tight and nailing it off!

A Post!

2012-02-08T17:30:39Z

Lots of them!

I'm fencing in the back yard a bit and moving the "temporary" fence I built a decade ago to just my side of the proerty line, building stairs from the back deck into a penned area for the pups, then a gate from there out to the rest of the back yard but it will be plenty of room for the pups to bark at Wuff in his bigger pen next to it.

My Dad just visited! and supervised Alex and I so we have the start of a pretty solid and straight fence. I always double up my horizonatal bars like L beams so they don't sag or twist as the years go by, and I am spacing them for 48 inch wire fence, but also building it so I can come along later if I want and turn it into a privacy fence. I'm thinking of planting Ivy on it.

I was gonna go with grape plants, cause I have a sprinkler line that runs the length of the fence buried and could put a sprinker head anywhere I planted them, so they'd probably grow pretty well and get a lot of late summer light but remembered grapes are toxic to dogs and nixed the idea...

The black piping sticking out of the ground is for fresh air to the Tornadoe Bunker LOL. It's buried about five feet down in one solid length of pipe and currently still out of the spot I have dug out about four feet. I'm gonna rig a computer fan to it and car battery, and for outside I have a twenty inch in diameter piece of steel pipe twenty inches long with flanges to bolt it to a concrete pad. I'm gonna weld a lid on it and cut some holes in the side, sandblast it and paint it black and yellow stripes, and find a radiation sticker to put on the top LOL!

Always something to do!

RUFF911.ORG

2012-02-04T00:20:03Z

There's a no kill shelter here in town that is having hard times like all the charities but also cause the oil spill caused some of her sponsors to go out of business, and they are about to go under.

A friend of mine Dawn Avello that used to work at 99Rocks when I had my wreck and used to listen to my stories from la La land at night used to volonteer there. I can't take any more dogs LOL, but I wanted to try and help the out and it's a drive but just by chance only a mile from my Dentist whom I'm gonna have to be making a few trips to see starting Valentines day LOL, it was either that or my 50th Birthday on the 16th and that just would have been the proverbial icing on the cake hahaha.

If I see one black wreath or balloon....

Anyways I stopped by and video taped the facilities that were well kept and didn't have the scent of dog at all, and a friend of mine did the editing for a You Tube vid for thier webpage to try and help them out in a round about way.

If it wasn't so far I'd volonteer to be a dog walker but I'd brother end up adopting half of them hahhaha!

OOPS!

2012-01-24T14:38:42Z

Every once in a while I have a simply brilliant idea and run with it....

Mary's been complaining of being hot despite the room being 65 so I figured since it's been so nice out tempwise I'd just run the whole house fan and shove the hot air out of the attic above the bedroom, plus it's nice to have a breeze going.
...
That was great yesterday cause the house itself had heated itself to 78 degrees cause of the way it catches the winter sun full on, and all my walls have plywood underneith them which adds a lotta mass to the house which in turn makes it stay at a pretty even tempurature even during power outages in hot or cold weather, and I figured I'd just let the fans run all night and dump all that heat, and get a jump on it before the sun started reheating everything.

That should actually make sense.

Being lazy I never took the time to put in the window screens, although I do know where they are, and so I just opened the door to the deck from the computer room.

I thought by turning off the lights everywhere as I am prone to, thanks Dad!, I'd keep the bugs that come out at night, out, but....

Debbies gonna kill me cause the entire house is filled with tiny no see um carcusses everywhere.

I'd just like to say thanks to all my friends out there before she gets here and don't send cards or flowers, just donations to the "Save the No-See_Ums" fund.

It will be a very private funeral.

Live long and prosper!

Timber!

2012-01-22T17:53:54Z

I'm a Lumberjack!

2012-01-19T15:52:46Z

I've gotta get the wife to the hairdresser's this afternoon and after looking in the mirror it appears I am in dire need of a Haircut, so I'm gonna try and get the dead pine in the back cut down real quick before we go.

I had planned on a bonfire with it cause Alex will be here helping today, and with the big saw, I can cut it into bite sized chunks in no time being that its been dead a while, but even though we got rain the other day it's to dry out to get a fire going if I'm not here to watch it.

I'm gonna spread all the ashes out in the spot I burn then till it into the ground after the Oak leaves fall in the Spring... Yeah that's odd timing I know, but the soil here has a very low Ph and the ashes raise it and made a huge difference in the sweetness of the stuff that comes from the fruit trees, and with cantaloupe and vegatables like that.

I'm gonna make a temporary fenced in spot around it, add a water spicket to the water line for the sprinklers to tap in a hose and use a regular srinkler from Walmart type sprinkler, and just let it grow wild all summer unless the caregivers want a spot in there to which I'm betting they both will want to at least grow some tomatoes or something, but anyways today I'll be a lumberjack, and maybe get a haircut, but won't be wearing any woman's clothing LOL

No Explanation Needed...

2012-01-18T23:09:08Z

Current Projects Going into 2012

2012-01-14T21:02:12Z

In No Particular way to Go!

So long as I keep Movin!

Get Taxes done, redo network, finish window protection and set all the anchors, replace kitchen door with a steel one, put in doggy door, build steps from deck to back yard, build seawall while the lake is low and boat launch, fence in back yard and put a gate across drive the the rear of the house, clear out the attic before it gets hot again then install to high power exhaust fans on thermostats through the roof, finish putting van together, cut down to dead or dieing trees, finish moulding in house....

I'm bound to run into a few more projects cause it's my nature to!

Taxes

2012-01-10T22:20:57Z

I successfully stayed off the computer for a good while today and got a good start into presorting the boxes of reciepts and such I need to eventually sort further and totaled up.

I've got three good sized boxes to go LOL, but took care of everything stacked on the kitchen table, went to the Post Office, put out preemergence crabgrass killer out on the lawn cause it's starting to rain and rain is free LOL, Unloading some stuff from my truck cause as I said, it's starting to pour, took the dogs out cause it's starting to pour, poured a cup of coffee and am trying to do a take on on fencing in the back yard for the dogs...

I really would like to make an ornate fence for the drive to the rear cause a farm gate is well, a farm gate, but the place I used to salvage steel from that was owned by a friend named Al has been closed for some time now and he's moved away.

If we can swing it I'll put in the seawall and get some more yard for the dogs, but playing in mud and water is a spring or summer tye of thing so my next project is probbly gonna finish cleaning out the computer room so it can be a spare bedroom, then clear out the sewing room and put up a door and closet and turn it into a spare bedroom, then while I've got an empty room I'll empty the last of the boxes in the attic out and sort through them for stuff, and put in the two power attic fans to cut down the air conditioning bill.

Someone please remind me to get this all done before it gets hot again LOL.

Thanks Alex!

2012-01-07T18:05:45Z

Alex is one of my wife's Caregivers son and has been a big help to me with the projects I should go back and do posts on that have been going on.

The 70 E series Jaguar down there is a basket case and belongs to a friend of mine and my wife's, and I foolishly told him I'd help him out with the welding, ten years ago LOL.

We had a lull in our funds cause we had to sell the house next door to get the rest of the money we needed to finish this house, and I hadn't had the accident yet, and I'm pretty good at putting a car back together with everything lining up right. I've even cut a few pairs of cars in half and replaced the back ends and once the end and the roof, onto customers cars, and I told him I would do it if he got all new replacement panels. The car is a unibody and all the strength is from the floor, since it doesn't have a frame. The entire thing is held together with 1/4 bolts, even the rear end / brake assembly which sits in a cradle only has about a dozen bolts to take out and you can pull the assembly out...

He found the thing sitting in a field and it had been there 8 years...

He got all the parts and I stripped about 5 layers of paint off and stopped at the original primer, then jacked it in the air and used my torches to soften the undercoating someone had slapped on there and scrapped it all off so I didn't end up with a fire, I was getting ready to sand blast everything, build a jog to hold it square, and take the plasma cutter to it and replace all the metal, meaning the entire floor and as luck would have it we suddenly sold the house and the car took a back seat, then I had the wreck and it took a further back seat, and with all the projects I have going on it was one I really didn't want to do and regretted even starting, I've spent enough time doing bodywork on cars for my life at this point except for my own cars LOL.

Luck has befallen on me and the car owners are moving back to Louisiana, and ran into a guy that is into Jags, and has a big moving truck he wants to sell them, so they are gonna hopefully do a swap as is which is why I asked Alex to get started on the downstairs.

If I keep this up I might have the entire house finally put away like I should have 5 years ago hahahaah!

Baby Steps...

2012-01-05T20:28:58Z

It looks like things might be picking up just a tad for the building industry here in Walton County Florida...

There are a few new businesses going up and a realtor friend of mine said house sales were rising as well.

Hope it's the start of an upward trend!

The Newest addition to my Family Tree

2012-01-05T01:28:07Z

It's a Big Tree!
My newest Grand Daughter Ailna Lynn!

Geez

2012-01-04T19:16:17Z

Buckle up people! Amnesia has it's plus's cause I can easily forget the bad times in my past, but I got up this morning, started getting ready for a Doc appointment at 10, got distracted and just remembered....

He Shoots and Scores~!

2012-01-04T15:53:43Z

The inspection for my Wind Mitigation Certificate went smoothly and I maxed myself out for the standards of when I finished the house, and he said I would have still scored realy high if I had just finished it yesterday.

The building codes change a bit every year, and unfortunately the inspection consists of a series of check boxes to mark off for having proper bracing, straps, anchors etc...

I wonder what it would have scored if they had an Engineer counted in all the shear walls, and the tornadoe shelter???

No matter, I built it that way to make the house safe, getting a discount on my homeowners policy wasn't heard of when I started, but it sure makes for a nice silver lining!

I can't believe I forgot to make a six year anniversary post about getting my Close Out, or final inspection just before Christmas LOL.

If you look close at the photo it appeared I was bound then for Hollywood LOL.

Good thing that was never on my bucket list hahahhaha....

The Assembly Line!

2012-01-03T17:40:16Z

Being able to have enough space to do this inside is really cool LOL.

Alex is going to come by and start on the bottom garage and the Jag down there that has haunted me for a decade honest, long story, is most likely sold because my friend's that own it are moving back to Luoisiana...

Inspection guy should be here in an hour and I'm ready!

Don't Forget Hurricane Season starts in June!

2012-01-03T14:39:41Z

I had to renew my homeowners policy on the house and switched companies to get more coverage at a lower rate, and Florida cuts homeowners a break on thier insurance if we upgrade our houses to take a higher windload.

To the ones still hanging in here, I am switching back to Livejournal instead of FaceBook so tell all your Friends LOL, but the die hards will remember how strongly I reinforced this house. This was actually the "prototype" for the MySafeFloridaHome program thanks to having a neighbor in the House of Reps, that I kept dragging over here to show him how I was glueing down all my plywood and putting it down under my sheet rock, or drywall for the Yankees...

My idea was to give people a break on new construction if they made a safe room in thier house to run to during a bad storm but he expanded it and they used to match improvements they would suggest after doing a free inspection, and match dollar for dollar up to $5000.

That program ran out of funding but I scored outragiously high considering I didn't have hurricane shutters, and I was getting the break from my previous carrior, but for some reason they don't have a copy of my Wind Midigation Certificate, so I am having the house reinspected today at noon, and that was enough to kick me in the rear and build covers.

Time that with a very generous gift from my Uncle John that is covering the cost of all this, it seems like destiny. I realize these are kinda ugly, but they will serve the purpose, and are only for floors I can reach without a ladder. I had steel ones installed for the high windows that will take a ladder cause some of my windows are 6 x 6, and the metal ones go up a strip at a time and overlap which should make life much simpler in the event we actually do get a hurricane someday.

I don't have them completely finished, and it will take about 2 hours a window to install the studs they mount to the first time, and I'll make sure each is labeled to avoid confusion.

I'm gonna build a shed under the back deck to store them that will fit right into an indentation I made in the block wall originally to stack firewood until I remembered termites LOL, and I'll build it to fit so I am not tempted to hide other things in there LOL.

I don't actually need to have them finished by noon fortuneately, as long as I have all the materials on hand so he can photo graph everything, and thanks to unbeleavably fast shipping and Ebay I got all my Dade County approved Hurricane anchors that get screwed 3 1/2 inches into the side of the house and leave an inch long stud sticking out, to which I'll attach a 2 inch long coupler, then use a hex bolt and fender washer to secure them using a cordless drill and socket drive.

I should be able to prepare for a hurricane in a day after this just by picking up perishables, filling up both tanks in my truck and the big one in the van which gives me 55 gallons of gas for the generators, plus by using the trucks as storage, I won't have all that gas laying about waiting to go bad in 6 gallon cans if we don't lose power for long, and can use it for driving if we don't..., and by boarding the place up.

I'm really curious if I'll get any credit for having a tornadoe bunker!

Hahhahahah.

BTW thanks for helping Alex!

Just a Test

2012-01-02T23:29:24Z

Had this been an actual Emergency this post might have contained some usefull information.

This is just a test.

A Bit more on the trip to Sirius in New York

2011-12-29T16:30:41Z

I really had a good time when I went to New York to meet Janette Barber, http://www.JanetteBarber.com, and got into the Sirius building to watch a show entitled "Danger" LOL, Coincidence strikes again, then had a long long lunch and got to speak with a lot of published authors and got some real numbers as far as what a book might bring if I was lucky.

It's not much LOL but I'm thinking of doing it as an EBook through Amazon and was contacted back by a senior person saying they we're interested and offered to help me with the process so I'm seriously thinking of giving it a go...

I'd never choose to live in New York personally, I just hate the crowds too much and need a lotta space around me, but it was an interesting trip even though I slept half the time I was up there trying to recharge my batteries LOL.

For today though I am working on building Hurricane shutters for when the season begins again next June!

Be Prepared!

I'm Still Not Dead!

2011-12-28T13:50:28Z

LOL,

Just been busy but FB has decided I cannot post to my wall for some odd reason and I'm looking at it as a sign I'm meant to start posting my stories over here again...

OK Computers are plotting against me...
The entire diatrabe I wrote after those first two lines just poofed!

I Kid you not! LMAO.

I can't even remember what I had gone on about already but it was a long long update and I promise to fix it if I can remember what it was about LOL.

Of all the things I miss most...

Gonna be making Hurricane shutters today. It's cold by florida standards and my windows are six feet square on average, but the front garage shelving really made a huge difference to the point I know have an upstairs work shop that's bigger than the original one I built down stairs to double as a safe room in storms, and it's very well insulated, and I can duct the clothes dryer exhaust heat into there instead of outside so you can work in a T shirt despite it being 40 outside. Got 20 pieces of plywood yesterday, Gratious from Ace Hardware in town to make up for a mix up sending me my Ace rewards $10 off a purchase things I didn't get for like 5 months, paid 25% of the cost of 250 anchors that meet the Dade County windload specs on Ebay last night, Stainless!, and now I just need to make a trip to Lowes for another case of glue, some 2 x4's and some 12d nails for my nail gun, and it should take a week maybe to make them all.

These will take two people to set up if a Hurricane heads my way, so I already had steel ones installed on the windows that take a ladder that go up in minutes and are a one man job, so in the event we do get a hurricane, I can make a quick trip to town to fill up the Handivan and my truck, which lets me siphon off gas for the generator, but if we don't loose power I don't have 55 gallons of gasoline hanging around the house waiting to go bad, or burn the place down LOL, and spend the rest of the day covering all the glass, and I'm set!

Hurricane madness shopping is way way worse than any Holiday spree out there if you have one headed right for you....

Sometimes I just get a good Laugh at the Spam I get for Posts...

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