paulthenurse
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Friday 7am After my 9th 12 hour overnight shift in a row: Drive home after work, meet up with Lenny. Load up the truck with tools, compressor and staging. (And Bar-B-Q-Saurus) Drive to Alice's. 90 degrees in the shade. Wish I was diving. Tear down the last countertop and sink. Disconnect the dishwasher. Goodbye to the last remnants of kitchen for a long time. Tear down the last bits of ceiling strapping. Disconnect radiators. Pull all plumbing down thru floor and cap pipes. Rip up remainder of linoleum and underlayment. Think about going for a night dive. Pass out in bed at 6pm.
Saturday 7am: 95 degrees I should be heading out to sea on a local charter right now.
Climb up on roof. Start attacking chimney with sledgehammers. Break back shingles to underlayment. Work chimney down into attic. Attic 120 degrees. Hand bricks one by one up onto roof staging, then throw down onto grass and lower buckets of mortor and rubble to ground. WOrk chimney down into daughters bedroom. Should be finishing up 2nd dive about now. Bricks out the window, rubble down the chimney. Bust chimney down into what was once the kitchen. Practically a cold front, down to 95 degrees again. Cough up a lung. Feel like I just chain smoked three cartons of Luckies. Bust chimney down int basement. Ahhhh, the basement!!! It's under 90 degrees here. 89 degrees! What a luxury. It's not possibleto be this dirty. If I was underwater I would be a lot cleaner.
Sunday 90 degrees
Lumber run Load up the truck. Feel the suspension creaking? It doesn't groaqn this much when its got all 12 tanks in it! Spend day framing up holes thru floors and drywalling dtrs new closet where the chimney once lived. Move electical wires. Only spark wires once, didn't even get jolted. Think about Electric Ray I saw up in Rockport
Monday 92 degrees
Reframe all interior walls. Yes Virginia, it is possible to soend all day reframing one room, espescially when the original builders of this hundred + year old house had only a nodding aquaintance with dimensional lumber and consistancy between framing members. WIsh I was diving. Sister on all new ceiling joists and strap ceiling. Pass out in bed a 8pm. Miss Big Papi's Homer
Tuesday 95 degrees
Drill 1000 holes in new framing and pull 3oo feet of new Romex thru all the new holes. Stuff wires into boxes. Try to remember what goes to what. Feel a deep need to be underwater. Go to work at 7pm and work my arse off all night dealing with folks who didn't go diving over the weekend and did stupid stuff like getting overheated and dehydrated and heat stroke.
My weekend was hot and sweaty and dirty. I am so dehydrated. My salt level is WAY down. I need to dive, and can't for at least week. Arrrgggghhhhh!
Everyone feel bad for me.
On Three. One... Two... Three... "Awwwww, poor Paul!"
PTN
Saturday 7am: 95 degrees I should be heading out to sea on a local charter right now.
Climb up on roof. Start attacking chimney with sledgehammers. Break back shingles to underlayment. Work chimney down into attic. Attic 120 degrees. Hand bricks one by one up onto roof staging, then throw down onto grass and lower buckets of mortor and rubble to ground. WOrk chimney down into daughters bedroom. Should be finishing up 2nd dive about now. Bricks out the window, rubble down the chimney. Bust chimney down into what was once the kitchen. Practically a cold front, down to 95 degrees again. Cough up a lung. Feel like I just chain smoked three cartons of Luckies. Bust chimney down int basement. Ahhhh, the basement!!! It's under 90 degrees here. 89 degrees! What a luxury. It's not possibleto be this dirty. If I was underwater I would be a lot cleaner.
Sunday 90 degrees
Lumber run Load up the truck. Feel the suspension creaking? It doesn't groaqn this much when its got all 12 tanks in it! Spend day framing up holes thru floors and drywalling dtrs new closet where the chimney once lived. Move electical wires. Only spark wires once, didn't even get jolted. Think about Electric Ray I saw up in Rockport
Monday 92 degrees
Reframe all interior walls. Yes Virginia, it is possible to soend all day reframing one room, espescially when the original builders of this hundred + year old house had only a nodding aquaintance with dimensional lumber and consistancy between framing members. WIsh I was diving. Sister on all new ceiling joists and strap ceiling. Pass out in bed a 8pm. Miss Big Papi's Homer
Tuesday 95 degrees
Drill 1000 holes in new framing and pull 3oo feet of new Romex thru all the new holes. Stuff wires into boxes. Try to remember what goes to what. Feel a deep need to be underwater. Go to work at 7pm and work my arse off all night dealing with folks who didn't go diving over the weekend and did stupid stuff like getting overheated and dehydrated and heat stroke.
My weekend was hot and sweaty and dirty. I am so dehydrated. My salt level is WAY down. I need to dive, and can't for at least week. Arrrgggghhhhh!
Everyone feel bad for me.
On Three. One... Two... Three... "Awwwww, poor Paul!"
PTN
