Monday, November 26, 2012

That light is just not going in.

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I've been tinkering on the thing, taking breaks to... clear my head.  I've tried several anchors, none of which have worked well.  Further, I was right about the power.  It isn't off, even with the switch off.  Luckily I haven't cooked my goose, if I did get quite a crackle.  Trying to work at that height, solo, with lousy drywall anchoring, has been difficult.  Further, some of the anchors have damaged the ceiling.  I can't move the light too much, enough really, because the power box has to be just so.  Hmm, I suppose I will have to figure out drywall repair (and bolstering).  Gah!  On the good side, doing it slowly and my way once the ice of doing the job at all was broken, I measured from the wall so that the light will be (much more) square with the room.  Yeah, yeah, I'm working on it.

I just called my mother.  I thought she should be in, and nearly home, by now.  Nope, she was delayed in Denver.  I am not sure what type of delay, what cause.  She had just landed, with only enough time to contact her ride, when I called.  Oh, and Frontier dumped her, without a wheelchair, and the next airline never got her one.  She really does need a wheel chair.  Did I mention she is still in a foot brace from her foot surgery?  She can work hard, she just can't walk well or far.  I have one airline I won't be using again.  In any case, she should be home before long.  And she knows I made it home.  I hope she takes a breather too.

I will begin researching drywall repair, enforcing, and seek information on why shower heads aren't working correctly with the plumbed water pipe.  I have a tap and die set, though I would guess I need a special head for showers as my set is more for mechanical, industrial, purposes.  At least I didn't just come home and go back to bed... if it turns out that as far as things go, I might have been ahead to do so!  Bah!  Tomorrow is another home day, then I will be having the freezer arrive the following day so I will be in until then, after which I will try to pick up my meat still stored at the home where I helped butcher the cow.  Thursday?  Hmm, I am hoping to get into town to pick up materials for patching the drywall, perhaps visit or take my friend for a shoot, and just get out of my home before I get trapped here again.  Research.  That is a good, actually productive, but easy enough task to be doing as I... catch my own breath.

Did I hear "dinner" echo in the back of my mind?  Nope.  That was from my stomach!  Oh, but wait, dinner will be coming in tonight!  Heh!  Some days you just can't lose... mostly.  Hmm?  Drywall?  Well, I've always been meaning get the materials and kit for that anyway.  I just didn't have a reason to do so.  It's not bad, it's just that the light will go in (more properly to boot, what with measuring and strengthened anchor points) at a later than anticipated date.  All good, if it isn't too expensive.  Later or good night.... Hard for me to know which at this juncture.

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