I'm doing what I can to get the writing things done early so a majority of my day can be taken up by concrete. I only have the vaguest recollection of manipulating the stuff myself, and most of that was being allowed to scribe my name into a slab with a stick.
I was very smol at the time.
This is a cubic meter of concrete to be shaped into a floor for a cat enclosure.
...and of course my ability to focus has gone out the window. Wish me luck. You might not get a story until hours after dark.
It's stopped raining, however temporarily it might be doing so. However, my spidey senses adjusted septum is telling me that rain should be coming by. Soon to now.
Please, rain, do kindly fuck off to the dryer regions until we have that concrete nice and set. There's a peach.
Today, Beloved and I are boxing out the concrete zone. I am also unfucking the house, writing my Instant, and potentially scribing 1K words further towards this week's goal of 9K. If I
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Today's the day we anticipate sunshine [It's still dark as I write this] and a further week of solar appearance. However, everything is still damp, so we have a day for things to dry out.
Tomorrow, my Beloved and I are boxing out where the concrete goes, and either that afternoon or Wednesday, the concrete flooring is going in! Nobody's going to be able to move that mofo even during the zombie apocalypse.
Wednesday,
Read more »We thought it would be a simple stapling job. Half an hour, tops. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
Nope.
It was the archetypical "five minute job" in which the client -Capt. S.- seriously misunderestimated how complicated the job was.
Have you ever tried to tailor-cut wood with a staplegun? No? That's the kind of job we had. We needed tools and the ones we had access to were lost, broken, rusted, or incomprehensible.
So of course that necessitated a visit to the
Read more »I really gotta focus.
Beloved stayed home to help me yesterday, and today the entire frame is complete and awaiting Tuesday. Tuesday is when all the fun happens.
The boxing, the concrete pour, the levelling thereof and all the jiggery-pokery. After that bullshit is over with, I have to harass my beloved into constructing the walkway that will connect the cat shelter with the main structure of the house.
Of course, I still have to go over said structure with Spakfilla and
Read more »It's going to be raining today, and I can't let that stop me, because we have a whole rainy weekend to get anything done in.
Pray I don't electrocute my stupid self with all the water zipping around. If I'm gonna hurt myself to the point where I can't work on this thing anymore, it's going to be on the eve of the day where I can plausibly get help to work on this thing.
Just watch. This is the day I
Read more »So now the problem is getting the parts to come together for a crucial last few centimeters/millimeters/nanometers because working with warped wood is just a firkin barrel of arseholes. I suspect aggressive work with the angle grinder may eventually save the day. Mostly because tensioning that beeswax sure didn't.
I'm so close to finishing the structure and it's looking like we could maybe put the concrete in on Tuesday. TUESDAY.
::foaming at the mouth and flailing::
On the plus side
Read more »I have one post waiting for bolts. One more post waiting to be situated that needs some judicious grinding to get it to fit. Alas, Mayhem was silly enough to wear bare feet on the building site yesterday, so we need him to remember his firkin boots, this time around.
It's so close to the next step. Even with muddy ground.
I just want this DONE, dangit.
Speaking of getting things done, I've been able to get 1K words into Kingdom of
Read more »Things accomplished: 1K words, the Instant, and a wooden post re-obtained.
To do today: Patreon nonsense, 500-1K words, the Instant, and post jiggery-pokery.
I want to get Mayhem to help me out with the posts, but getting him to do so is going to be my big battle. Putting these things up is a two-person job and Chaos does not have the height, strength, or patience to do these things.
Still. Best to rattle on with the content whilst the daylight is
Read more »On one hand, a lot more free time because no brat runs. On the other hand, I still have a lot to do and convincing the kids to come help is an uphill battle at the best of times. Sigh.
In progress news, we fucked up one of the posts, and now I have to go make another one. Boo.
We have a lot of lumber lying around now, thanks to various fuckups.
In other progress news, we have reached the "Fuckit"
Read more »I have just spent all my daylight hours working on the kitty kondo(tm) and I'm pretty much toasted as a result.
We fucked up a post and now I have to go get and cut a new one. Blah. It can be done, but we feel like idiots as a result.
I can plausibly replace that post during the week. There's going to be more jiggery-pokery involved. Of course. But for now, we have post-mix concrete in the post holes and
Read more »It was supposed to be merely cloudy today, but it rained anyway. Boo.
After some consideration, we figured that it would be much better to construct the shell, level the structure, and pour in some post-mix into the holes, so now we have a plan of attack that just needs the HUGE MUDDY PUDDLE to dry out.
Fortunately, aquatic pumps exist, and we got ourselves a doozy. It's a green slimline thing that you pipe water into in order to get it
Read more »Second-last day of school for this term for Chaos, last day in Mayhem's term.
Everything on our little building site is wet and squishy and we have to drain it before we do anything and AAARGH!
Meanwhile, I did my first 3K of Kingdom of Sand and I am doing character pieces and I'm loving it.
Therefore, today's early rising was leisurely and most of my time is to be spent on editing more episodes of Oh My Mods. With an aim
Read more »I forgot to do the Patreon stuff and I have a medical appointment today, but I am ahead on the word count so... yay. Ish.
Mayhem stayed at home, so on top of getting a tooth hole plugged, we got a rattle on with some of the Kitty Kondo(tm) despite the weather.
...and because of the weather, there is mud everywhere. Sigh. It'll sweep up though.
I also managed to break a board by dropping it, so part of my adventures
Read more »Mayhem has a free day - allegedly. I have already said that he's going to be in trouble if I get any contact from his school about this. Meanwhile, he's helping me with the kittycat shelter.
All things going well, we should have the front entryway side assembled - or mostly assembled - by sunset. In the rain.
This on top of getting a cavity filled. Today is going to be fun.
Story will be happening during any breaks. Thanks in advance
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