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[Sky]

I seem to make an epic out of house projects. I'm still planning the dishwasher installation. I bought it three weeks ago. Apparently it's not a standard cabinet and everyone just wings it.

[voodoolily]

I seem to make an epic out of house projects. I'm still planning the dishwasher installation. I bought it three weeks ago. Apparently it's not a standard cabinet and everyone just wings it.

Too bad we're not neighbs. I'd cook if you built shit.

[schild]

I seem to make an epic out of house projects. I'm still planning the dishwasher installation. I bought it three weeks ago. Apparently it's not a standard cabinet and everyone just wings it.

Too bad we're not neighbs. I'd cook if you built shit.

I'd like to see you cook using a dishwasher.

[Merusk]

I seem to make an epic out of house projects. I'm still planning the dishwasher installation. I bought it three weeks ago. Apparently it's not a standard cabinet and everyone just wings it.

Wait, what?  What kind of dishwasher did you buy? Normally they're just 24x24 boxes.

[voodoolily]

I seem to make an epic out of house projects. I'm still planning the dishwasher installation. I bought it three weeks ago. Apparently it's not a standard cabinet and everyone just wings it.

Too bad we're not neighbs. I'd cook if you built shit.

I'd like to see you cook using a dishwasher.

Well the being neighbors thing would imply that I'd use my own kitchen. That said, you can steam a trout in a dishwasher.

[Oban]

I'd like to see you cook using a dishwasher.

http://www.salon.com/nov96/salmon961118.html

For my next trick, cooking using a car's engine.

[Sky]

Wait, what?  What kind of dishwasher did you buy? Normally they're just 24x24 boxes.

Well, yeah. That's why it's funny. I have to extend my counter with a fairly simple carcass, but I've never built one before. So I know nussing. The maintenance guy here at work got done laughing and gave me a couple pointers, but I'm pretty much winging it.

The big revelation is that the basement stairs run behind the wall, so I'm going to tap the water line there rather than go through the cabinets. Waste line might still have to go through the cabinets. I don't want to chop my cabinets because they're nice 60's-era wood cabinets (Sheirich or summat). Down to two options on the electrical, direct-wire or tailing on a three-prong cord; either would pop through to the basement side so both shutoffs (water/power) were on the same spot. Could add a switch for direct wire, or yank the plug for the corded. Already ran the wire to the service panel.

Anyway, the carpentry is the part I have been struggling with, just how to set up the supports properly. My neighbor showed me hers, and it's cheesy as hell. The maintenance guy was laughing (not just at my mistakes in the plans) at how I want to build it like a tank. Once I locate the places I want to put in supports, add some backing boards behind the wall, get a decent end panel (was thinking of veneering some plywood I already had, but PITA), get it all mocked, break it down and stain it, put it in and screw in the countertop... Got a good deal from a used and surplus place on a 4' run of counter, kind of mottled brick red.

And the whole thing is basically temporary, because I'm eventually going to tear out this add-on cabinet over the dishwasher, but I want the option of maybe it being permanent. I guess I'd rather over-think things than slap something together and have to live with it. Also, I like sturdy counters because I cook with so much cast iron.

Never had a dishwasher, I'm very excited and impatient to get this going. Also had to wait while I rebuilt the shed roof and been changing out some light fixtures for non-cheesy-looking stuff. And adding under-counter lighting zomg  xenon halogen spots. They're only the cheesy plug-in/screw-in fixtures for now, eventually want to actually integrate some good lights in there. But they're two-stage, with really nice bright, good color temp highs and warm lows.

Also, when I get the plumber to tap the hot water line (could do it myself, but want more practice first), I need him to replace the cheesy plastic hose in the basement that runs to the exterior hose bib, it leaks and is just shitty quality. Replacing with copper and a good shutoff valve (not the cheesy wheel kind, which is there now). Which means opening up the closet wall and moving that line over a foot because I wasn't smart enough to do it when I had the living room wall open...and then chipping out the concrete the current bib is embedded in plus enough room to add the new bib a foot over, and when he's done, filling it back in with concrete...considering running some cables through there now while it's open...

As I said, I make stuff epic!     

[Nebu]

If you have to run the waste line through the cabinets, you may as well do it for the water line too.  I had to do something similar when I remodeled the kitchen in my last house.  I found it much easier to go through the backs of the lower cabinets than to try and come up through the floor, but your placement in the kitch may make that worthwhile. 

One thing I hate about working on houses... you eyeball a project that looks really straightforward and when you start doing demo to prep, it becomes apparent that it's going to be a lot more complex than you thought.  Since you already demoed, it's this feeling that you're now commited that kills me. 

[Signe]

Wow, do we shit a lot or what?

[schild]

I grabbed Wrestlemania XXV because Mickey Rourke helps Ric Flair. Which is totally worth seeing since Ric Flair is older than my dad (also WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!) and god, the announcers are just awesome. Wrestling announcers are the modern warrior poets. That's all I wanted to say.

[voodoolily]

Wow, do we shit a lot or what?

I wonder if the advent of Tivo has screwed up their TV commercial flush stats? I can just pause the TV anytime I want to go and return to my program without missing a beat.

[FatuousTwat]

Fuck mosquitoes.

FUCK THEM.

[Cyrrex]

I've tried, but their little buttholes are just soooooo tiny.

[IainC]

Obvious comment is obvious.

[Cyrrex]

Um.  Useless conversation is useless.

[FatuousTwat]

Fuck mosquitoes.

FUCK THEM.

BLARFARGLERABGLENAAAAAAARGE!

I have 5 MASSIVE mosquito bites that are driving me INSANEEEEEEEEEEE! The temp around here got up to around 70 for a couple of days and they were everywhere. MY CALAMINE LOTION IS EXPIRED?! WHY DOES GOD HATE ME?!

[Cyrrex]

I always just automatically assume that people complaining about mosquito bites are just being wussies, which is rather easy seeing as they don't bother me one bit.  Nor do they really bite me.  It's all in your head, dude, and those big puss filled red bumps are figments of your imagination.

[rattran]

Eat more garlic. Keeps the little bastards away. I work outdoors during the summer in southeast Wisconsin next to a swamp. I got 3 mosquito bites last year. Garlic. Lots and lots of garlic.

[Cyrrex]

Out of curiousity, would your number of intimate encounters with the opposite sex be less than or greater than your number of mosquito bites?   

[voodoolily]

Eat more garlic. Keeps the little bastards away. I work outdoors during the summer in southeast Wisconsin next to a swamp. I got 3 mosquito bites last year. Garlic. Lots and lots of garlic.

As a wetland biologist, I can attest that garlic and B-Vitamins have never worked for me. I prefer military-issue DEET (you can get the strong stuff in the garden section of Home Depot or similar), but now that I'm With Child I can't spray pesticides all over my clothing. I also used to chain-smoke to keep them away, but alas...

[Salamok]

Eat more garlic. Keeps the little bastards away. I work outdoors during the summer in southeast Wisconsin next to a swamp. I got 3 mosquito bites last year. Garlic. Lots and lots of garlic.

As a wetland biologist, I can attest that garlic and B-Vitamins have never worked for me. I prefer military-issue DEET (you can get the strong stuff in the garden section of Home Depot or similar), but now that I'm With Child I can't spray pesticides all over my clothing. I also used to chain-smoke to keep them away, but alas...

Grats on the with child status.

[Endie]

I dunno abourt mosquitoes but here in Scotland the real problem is biting midges (I think they are roughly the same as no-see-ums in the US).  One pretty decent way to avoid being bitten is to use Avon's Skin-So-Soft spray-on moisturiser: I learned that via a member of the paras.

The other, static answer is to buy one of the new midge-eater machines.  I don't know if the Mosquito Magnet (the same machine, but sold in the US and with a different chemical formulation) is as effective, but I have sat at dusk on the shores of Loch Lomond in August and never even seen a midge, much less get bitten, next to the Drover's Inn which now runs one of the machines.  Four or five years earlier, coming back from another hiking expedition, we couldn't even go outside at the same inn because of the dark, dense clouds of midges that surrounded us in seconds.

[lamaros]

Just discovered that my younger brother, who moved in to my house a month and a bit a go, has converted his bedroom cupboard on the sly to grow weed.

Pretty amusing in a way, but fucking annoying in quite a few others.

[Signe]

Are you going to grass him up?   

[Oban]

Just discovered that my younger brother, who moved in to my house a month and a bit a go, has converted his bedroom cupboard on the sly to grow weed.

Pretty amusing in a way, but fucking annoying in quite a few others.

When the Feds seize all of your property, make sure to thank your brother.

[Signe]

Yes. You will absolutely have feds swarming all over your property because your brother is growing a pot plant in a cupboard!  RUN!!!

[Oban]

[Murgos]

Soooo tempted to shoop that to say "PARTY VAN".

[Oban]

Was looking for party van photos, but gave up and settled on a lego police van.

[WayAbvPar]

Your turn to drive- I'll bring the beer.

[Ironwood]

I'm wondering if there's a more bittersweet feeling in the world than finding out the lovely young lady you work with and have liked and respected for five years is actually attracted to you much more than you ever knew.

And you're married.

Even when life is good, it stinks.

[schild]

I'm wondering if there's a more bittersweet feeling in the world than finding out the lovely young lady you work with and have liked and respected for five years is actually attracted to you much more than you ever knew.

And you're married.

Even when life is good, it stinks.

Two women love me, my diamond shoes don't fit, and my wallet is too big for my pocket.

Blow it out your ass.

[Ironwood]

You do make me laugh you cuddly wee jewish bloke.  My diamond shoes fit fine.

But I take your point.  I wasn't complaining.


EDIT :  Actually, Credit where it's due, I can't stop laughing now.  Here's me, wean all fed and watching Bob the Builder and feeling maudlin and you come along with "I have no job, in a place I hate and Mother Nature has just fucked my car, so shut it."

Quite right too.  However, I can make you feel sorry for me.  Unlike many on the boards, it's highly unlikely I'll ever play Demon Souls.

 

[schild]

I should mention, one of my family friends died yesterday. I've known him my whole life. He lived with me and my parents during some rough years.

So

Schild: 0
Things Can Get Worse: 4

I love Austin. I just hate where I am in life right now. It's just fucking amazing. I don't know what's left that can go wrong. I'm not emo by nature, it's just - well, it's fucking astounding. I feel like a goddamn sideshow.

In other words, I don't feel sorry for you.

[Ironwood]

That sucks.  While I'm sure everything else will work out for you, there's not much that can help that one.

With death, you can only hope that the life lived was full and that it was swift or expected and accepted.

Truly sorry for your loss.