Monday, November 08, 2004
monday evening tired stuff
Another glorious day unfortunately spent not getting a whole heck of a lot done. This hobbling around and being careful is not conducive to the Big Cleanup. It got so warm that shorts and my kerryboots were called for (no chainsaw action!), removed the fence panels on a 8' x 16' garden plot to clean out the old sugar snap trellis's with Rima totally enraptured with the few square feet of the yard she hasn't dug up yet, and piled up a haystack of weeds. Rima, bless her little lovin' heart, was so pleased with old slow movin' me that she came over often for the ear scratchin' and chin rubbin' that just can't be denied a critter with those beautiful eyes. Now, one of the first things I teach a pup is to not jump up on a person. I will invite one to do so, that's OK, so I invited Rima for a stand-up double ear scritch. Eventually, I wanted to get back to my job and told her 'down'. Yep. One paw directly on top of the sore hoof. I believe I began bleeding out of my eyes and ears. Hobbled back in the house with Rima getting little half-hearted noggin rubs. That finished my outdoor chores for this day.
Earlier I checked out what it was going to take to repair the greenhouse roof frame. Easy as pie, just need a come-along or cable pull. Since the frame is not glued but cable stayed, the only damage was one broken 2,000 lb cable and 2 fractured 5-way couplings that won't even need replacing.
There's always plenty to do even with the hoof on the desk top. Today's challenge was to go back and take another stab at converting my small greenhouse assembly manual written in 1997 into a reasonable sized PDF doc rather than the present, printer-friendly, 4.3 MB Word 6 as originally composed. Lots of photos and diagrams and most suffer horribly with more compression. I didn't run any advertizing for the things this year and I'm not too sure it is really worthwhile selling them in onesy-twosys, takes a lot of time that way, but they are pretty therapeutic to fabricate. There's a lot that goes into each of them, tried to publish the parts list but the table wouldn't work with blogspot's html editor. For each of the small greenhouses, there are 131 tube sections of 21 different lengths, 73 fittings, 8 which I make, plus scads of hardware and I've been cutting, labeling each part, and assembling each one before dismantling and shipping just to make sure there are no errors. Takes a couple of days after all the material is in hand. I bought a year's worth of listing on the GP's Bazaar in 2000-2001 and the stat chart shows 2 major interest peaks, mid-Nov. to Christmas, then very heavy in mid- March. Donno, maybe I'll revise the web site and try to flog a few of them again in a couple of months.
'nuff. Time to pick on Arafat again!
Paris Tells Palestinians to Remove Arafat
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
Weekend at Yasser's
Power Line
BBC reporter cried for Arafat
Jerusalem Post
Top Ten Uses For A Dead Palestinian Nobel Laureate
10. Wheel chocks for IAF jet
9. Shellac, make into bobsled for the heartwarming underdog Palestinian Winter Olympics team
8. Police barrier for West Bank car swarms
7. Large finishing trowel for that big Israeli barrier wall spackling project
6. Whimsical towel dispenser for that one UN restroom where the hand dryer is always broken
5. Comfy beanbag chair for the Middle East Studies faculty lounge at Columbia U
4. Artsy stage ramp for 2005 Nobel gala in Oslo
3. Gold-plated memorial statue at Switzerland's Tomb of the Unknown Money Launderer
2. Crash test dummy for Ramallah Institute for Semtex Safety
and...
1. Beelzebub's eternal prison bitch
Arafat Burial Plans Done in Time for Final Death
Scrappleface
Is it a requirement of Islam for burial within 24 hours of death? I hope he doesn't miss out on all those virgins and young, supple boys...
Deep pools of blue
Redstate
"As Walter Williams pointed out after the election in 2000, the places of greatest Democrat strength are places of major dysfunction and social pathology -- higher illiteracy rates, higher crime, higher drug use, higher illegitimacy, higher unemployment. "Red America" is made up of producers; "Blue America" is predominantly made up of users (of government services). Rather than stand for policies that will enhance the health of society, the Democrats apparently believe that their path to success rests in dumbing America down more, making more Americans dependent upon government programs, and increasing social misery and hopelessness. The Democrats are the party of despair. While their support is isolated in pools of "blue," those pools of blue are increasingly becoming social and cultural hell-holes."
Doug Isles can be kinda mean to lefties!
Spanked
I know there are not enough registered voting muslims in this country to affect a national election but it's interesting where they have settled.
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"Only lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty."
-George Bernard Shaw
Earlier I checked out what it was going to take to repair the greenhouse roof frame. Easy as pie, just need a come-along or cable pull. Since the frame is not glued but cable stayed, the only damage was one broken 2,000 lb cable and 2 fractured 5-way couplings that won't even need replacing.
There's always plenty to do even with the hoof on the desk top. Today's challenge was to go back and take another stab at converting my small greenhouse assembly manual written in 1997 into a reasonable sized PDF doc rather than the present, printer-friendly, 4.3 MB Word 6 as originally composed. Lots of photos and diagrams and most suffer horribly with more compression. I didn't run any advertizing for the things this year and I'm not too sure it is really worthwhile selling them in onesy-twosys, takes a lot of time that way, but they are pretty therapeutic to fabricate. There's a lot that goes into each of them, tried to publish the parts list but the table wouldn't work with blogspot's html editor. For each of the small greenhouses, there are 131 tube sections of 21 different lengths, 73 fittings, 8 which I make, plus scads of hardware and I've been cutting, labeling each part, and assembling each one before dismantling and shipping just to make sure there are no errors. Takes a couple of days after all the material is in hand. I bought a year's worth of listing on the GP's Bazaar in 2000-2001 and the stat chart shows 2 major interest peaks, mid-Nov. to Christmas, then very heavy in mid- March. Donno, maybe I'll revise the web site and try to flog a few of them again in a couple of months.
'nuff. Time to pick on Arafat again!
Paris Tells Palestinians to Remove Arafat
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
Weekend at Yasser's
Power Line
BBC reporter cried for Arafat
Jerusalem Post
Top Ten Uses For A Dead Palestinian Nobel Laureate
10. Wheel chocks for IAF jet
9. Shellac, make into bobsled for the heartwarming underdog Palestinian Winter Olympics team
8. Police barrier for West Bank car swarms
7. Large finishing trowel for that big Israeli barrier wall spackling project
6. Whimsical towel dispenser for that one UN restroom where the hand dryer is always broken
5. Comfy beanbag chair for the Middle East Studies faculty lounge at Columbia U
4. Artsy stage ramp for 2005 Nobel gala in Oslo
3. Gold-plated memorial statue at Switzerland's Tomb of the Unknown Money Launderer
2. Crash test dummy for Ramallah Institute for Semtex Safety
and...
1. Beelzebub's eternal prison bitch
Arafat Burial Plans Done in Time for Final Death
Scrappleface
Is it a requirement of Islam for burial within 24 hours of death? I hope he doesn't miss out on all those virgins and young, supple boys...
Deep pools of blue
Redstate
"As Walter Williams pointed out after the election in 2000, the places of greatest Democrat strength are places of major dysfunction and social pathology -- higher illiteracy rates, higher crime, higher drug use, higher illegitimacy, higher unemployment. "Red America" is made up of producers; "Blue America" is predominantly made up of users (of government services). Rather than stand for policies that will enhance the health of society, the Democrats apparently believe that their path to success rests in dumbing America down more, making more Americans dependent upon government programs, and increasing social misery and hopelessness. The Democrats are the party of despair. While their support is isolated in pools of "blue," those pools of blue are increasingly becoming social and cultural hell-holes."
Doug Isles can be kinda mean to lefties!
Spanked
I know there are not enough registered voting muslims in this country to affect a national election but it's interesting where they have settled.
* * * * * *
"Only lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty."
-George Bernard Shaw
