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It’s Time To Fix Things

If you know me then you would be very much aware that this is probably a rant about how we need to become vegan socialists. However, this isn’t about fixing society. This is about things I need to fix in the home. I’m currently concentrating on the bathroom and I have got a list of issues that’s quite long. I don’t think any of them are urgent so I am going to do these things over time, do something every other weekend or so.

First I painted the radiator. It wasn’t looking good and needed some rust treatment. Then I spent a weekend getting two decent coats of titanium based paint onto it. I think it looks alright. It hasn’t made that much difference to the bathroom but I notice and it makes me happy.

Recently I am working on the ceiling. I have quite a bit of paint flaking off and some bubbles where the paint is definitely leaving the surface. So, I am in the process of scraping all the loose stuff off and then sealing the surface ready for paint. I think the paint will be over the next few evenings as I’m working on the sealing of the ceiling. Taking this little by little approach also keeps me happy as there isn’t too much disruption to my normal life.

I don’t like decorating. I don’t like the idea of having to move everything so that I can slap some paint on a surface. I don’t like the disruption. But, I have been telling myself that the end result will be pleasing and so I’m coping with that. I do not know what colour to do the walls in that room. I’ll leave that decision for another day.

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Missed Opportunity

These last few weeks have mostly been about me building a sleeping system for my kids. I have no idea if there’ll be pictures on here because it’s their room but I will end up explaining bits and pieces. I have completed four days of work on the system and it will end up being a good five days, the last day is going to be spread out over the next week with odd jobs here and there. Overall I am very pleased with the end product. Sure there are shitty bits but they are mostly not obvious on first inspection so I can live with that. There’s also the balance of time/effort/money with caringness.

I was on the phone recently with Jase and we talked about the flooring I was planning. He told me that he had left a message below some laminate flooring in a house he used to live in. I decided I should do the same. I was going to place a newspaper page under the floor, that would give a date and a rough idea of what was going on in the world at the time and then I could write a note and leave it there.

I spent a few days thinking about the note. Should I say who we are and what we are doing with out lives right now? Should I give my opinions on the world at the moment? I was going to leave a note saying that we had enjoyed living in the house and hope that the next people do also – I don’t think I’ll be lifting the flooring in my time in the house. I decided I wouldn’t write about who we are as I knew it would end up being a rant about what is going on in the world at the moment.

I thought I could write about the newspaper I left under the flooring with some comments on the headlines but that would very easily end up being a rant at the sheer incompetence of the government and world leaders at dealing with the PANDEMIC we are trying to live through. I considered writing about the lying racist we have in charge of the country at the moment but I thought that wouldn’t really bring any cheer to whomever reads the note. I decided I shouldn’t write anything and just leave the newspaper there as a small surprise.

Then, this morning, after I have finished the floor, genius struck. I should have written a note as if it was the start of a bad horror movie. I could have written about how I hope that the new owners enjoy their time in the house but that we were terrified of the movings and happenings in the house and that a number of pets had died strangely. This would have been very funny. But only to me as I know that all that bollocks isn’t real. I don’t think I would have done this as maybe the people who live here would be believers and I would cause them problems. Also, they probably would be able to see what I thought as I’ll probably be dead by then.

Still, it would have been funny.

This is communication 1914 and so in keeping with recent tradition I present some things that happened in the year 1914:

  • Mother’s Day becomes a thing in the US and is promoted by companies seeking to profit.
  • Gavrilo Princip did a thing.
  • The Panama Canal is inaugurated.
  • The last know passenger pigeon died.
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