Day 1133

I woke up at 8:15 and got up at 8:30.  After pet stuff and breakfast I went out to the apartment.  I really wanted to get the kitchen done today.

I started by cutting the base board so I could put the vertical board in.  That went really well - the cutoff tool is really nice.  Then I cut the board to length and nailed it up.

Measuring, cutting, and nailing up the boards on the left wall went easily.  It wasn't really quick because I had to be careful measuring and cutting a bit of trim in the corner with the back wall.  I'd purposely left it a little long.  The cutoff tool did the trim, but I actually had to get out the Dremel to cut a small part of the old beadboard away.  It seems just about any project I do involves the Dremel at some point.  I can't seem to get away from it.

I took some more time measuring out the back wall boards.  I got lucky two ways.  First, I was able to cut off the crooked parts of both boards.  Second, I mis-measured the last board.  I thought I was cutting it long, but ended up cutting it to just the right length.  Whew.  Nailing them up went easily.

Cleaning up took quite awhile.  I had to put away a lot of tools.  Then I had to use the shop vac on both the saw in the garage and the kitchen.  I'd made pretty good messes in both.  Finally, I took all of the garbage out to the can.

The whole effort took about 2 hours.  That was about what I thought it would take.

I went back into the house and surfed for awhile.  Then it was a sandwich for lunch.  When that was finished we went out.  We stopped at the post office.  Some packages were due, but they weren't there.  Two day Prime delivery is a bullshit.  Then we went to Lowe's to get a compressor hose to replace the leaking one.  That hose has been a pain in the ass.  The compressor runs continuously.  They didn't have one, so we went to Home Depot.  I got the last one they had.

We stopped briefly at HEB and then went to Tomlinson's.  Lucy had a great time.  Everyone, workers and customers, petted her.  She also got A LOT of treats.

When we got home I went out to the garage to replace the compressor hose.  The new hose doesn't leak.  However, the quick connect does.  I couldn't hear it before because the hose leak was louder.  More trouble with cheap Chinese shit.

It has been raining all day.  I didn't take the dog to the mailbox.  We had frozen meatloaf for dinner.

After dinner I took two sacks of garbage out to the can.  It wasn't raining very hard, so I kept going to the mailbox.  Then it was TV and football for the rest of the evening.