Work Report - Mike Crowl focuses on jobs and work and anything connected to the two.

Mike blogs in two places on Orble, and two on Blogger. His wife thinks he writes too much.

[ May 2009 ] [ July 2009 ]

Work Report - June 2009

Batts and Borer

June 27th 2009 08:17

We've spent most of the day continuing with the ongoing renovation of our kitchen. (See a recent post on when we put the pantry in.)

First job this morning was to continue removing the T & G (tongue in groove) wood which has probably been in the house since it was built just under a century ago. Though this looked tough and non-removable at first, it proved to be fairly easy going, as a lot of the wood that held it on was borer-ridden, and gave way quickly. That left huge amounts of mess, and we wound up with borer-discarded wood dust in our hair, eyes and all

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Comments (2)

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Mike Crowl - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

Preparing the Pantry

June 20th 2009 07:37

Not sure if I've mentioned on here that we're doing some renovating in the kitchen here at home. We've removed the wall between the kitchen and what was most recently my office (formerly the smallest bedroom in the house) and done all sorts of pulling and shoving and removing and replacing. Still a long way to go, especially as the project manager got knocked off her bike a few days after she began this latest process.

Anyway, today we went and picked up the kind of kitset corner pantry that we'd ordered last week. Must say they were very quick off the mark (Kitchens 4 Less) and well priced.
[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Mike Crowl - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

Phariseeism

June 15th 2009 01:26

I've more than a little irritated. Just over a month ago, my wife got knocked off her motor scooter by some bloke who somehow wasn't looking. The form to renew the bike's registration arrived a few days ago, so I made a trip down to the place where the bike now resides and got the plate and registration sticker off the now-defunct machine.

Filled out the form and my wife signed it (as usually happens at our house, my wife not being enamoured of forms) and took it into the AA (Automobile Association) today to have the bike de-registered. The young girl behind the counter first tells me it wasn't valid because my wife's motor vehicle license wasn't on it. When I pointed out that the form said either the identification details OR the license, she told me that my wife had to come in and present the form, to stop fraud

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Comments (2)

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Mike Crowl - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

Lying on my back

June 12th 2009 08:41

Back to the hospital today for x-rays on the kidneys.

Which meant an intravenous dose of liquid (Omnipaque350) so that the camera could see whether there was anything untoward in my kidneys - there wasn't.
[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Mike Crowl - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

Chinglish and more

June 5th 2009 22:46

While I was in the middle of the week when we did the performances of the play, When We Are Married, I bought a book called More Chinglish. It consists of page after page of photographs of weird and wonderful signs in various Asian languages with the English 'translation' underneath. Some of them are hilarious, some of them just plain peculiar.

I was reminded of this book when I came across Discounted Air Beds, which is an American Company, and therefore might be expected to be able to produce a website that's in English. Or at least in American English (!) But one of the opening statements is: Buy Better Number Bed & Save More Than $1700. Okay....but what's a number bed? As if to answer my