I Aten't Dead*

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

It's all relative, depending on your point of view. To a youngster like Oberon she may seem like a granny, or at least mom. Me? I usually call her "kid".


Neal, you need to update that list. CCIP has posted at least once in the last few days.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=2004

He is on the list? Ok, thanks, glad he is back.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

Turn the circuit breaker back on.

I DID!!!! But the powerstrip still only gives love to the tester thingy, and none to my Dustbuster or Swiffer Sweeper. I'm assuming we're talking about my powerstrip woes.

Thanks for the warm welcome back, everybody. It's good to be here again.

[Gargamel]

Hey Fk!

*wave*

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

Without your misadventures in home repair I actually found time to get a lot of projects done around this homestead over the summer and fall.

Oh dear lord lemme tell you about the pot rack. You'd think it would be easy, right? There's already two holes from a previous owner, right under one of the joists over the kitchen peninsula. So I buy a pot rack, only I get it and it needs to hang from four hooks, not two. Fine, I get out the studfinder thing and get a *bing* for the center of another joist about 16" over from where the two existing holes are, right about where it should be. Awesome!

So I measure and mark where the second two holes should go. I buy four big ol' screw-in hooks. Go to put them in the existing two holes only... wouldn't you know, the person who hung something from them, instead of using something that would screw all the way up into the joist that's RIGHT THERE, used a shorter something into just the ceiling, er, stuff - is that still called drywall when it's on the ceiling? Anyway they didn't use the joist, they made a hole and stuffed some kind of drywall anchor in there for whatever it was, which I can't get out without tearing a much bigger hole in the ceiling.

No problem, I've got room, I just moved everything down by a couple inches, remeasured, remarked all the spots. Get the first two hooks into the joist all nice and solid, great. Go to put in the other two and guess what? THERE AIN'T NO JOIST THERE. Despite the fact that my studfinder, which otherwise works flawlessly everywhere else, tells me I'm right under one. So I had to go back to Lowe's and try to look for something else to hang the rack from, preferably with two things in the joist and then the other two using anchors of some kind. Explaining the situation to the salesman there was fun!

Lowe's guy: Some of those cheap studfinders give false positives, you should always stick with higher quality products.

Me: I bought it here.

Lowe's guy: Er... maybe it needs a new battery?

Me: No, it works fine everywhere else I test it.

Lowe's guy: Maybe there's a knothole in the joist right at that spot.

Me: It would be a pretty big coincidence if there was another knothole exactly 28" down from this one and 16" across from the first joist.

And on and on like that. In the end it was impossible to find four matching hooks that could be using with AND without anchors, in the existing spots. So I ended up having to get four jumbo metal hooks for hanging plants and stuff, and use all anchors, and use four entirely different holes and just patch the existing ones. What I expected to be a quick trip to the store to buy four hooks and a couple hours on a weekend afternoon hanging the thing turned into hours and hours of frustration and wasted effort, several trips to two different stores, and several messes that had to be cleaned up in my kitchen without anything worthwhile having been accomplished.

But it's up now and shows no signs of coming down, and I love it, so I guess it was worth it.

Edit: I forgot to mention the part where I poked holes in the ceiling every two inches in either direction from the hole-without-a-joist, at the suggestion of the Lowe's guy, trying to locate the joist that the studfinder said the first hole was right in the middle of. Yeah, there ain't no joist there, at least not one low enough to screw anything into, and wherever the next one is it's not anywhere close enough to the peninsula to use for the pot rack. Harumph.

[Garion]

Welcome back Mistress Weatherwax, that'l teach yoo to go 'borrowing' bees, very tricking thing 'borrowing' BeeeEeZZzzzzzz.

Cheers

Gary

[frau kaleun]

I see Oberon and Garion know their Pratchett.

[Aktungbby]

Jeeze! I had just looked you up a few days back and noted recent activity so I wasn't worried ...WELCOME BACK! beware of errant studfinders!! I had the same problem rehanging all the bike hooks after the earthquake in the garage sheetrock.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Neal, you need to update that list. CCIP has posted at least once in the last few days.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=2004

STEED has been here almost on a daily basis for a good while now but can't say that of Penelope Grey for example, he's not been around since August 09.

[vienna]

Welcome back, Frau! You've been missed...

Now a couple of questions:

Pot rack? Is that legal where you live or are you adopting a counterculture lifestyle a' la the 60s?

Stud finder? Are there no single bars in you area?

Enquiring minds want to know,,,


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[u crank]

Welcome back Frau K. Good to hear from you.

[Tango589]

Also, how are the cats? Are they full-grown house wreckers by now?

[Pisces]

Welcome back Frau.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Remember who?

Oh, the old* lady with the cats. Thank goodness you're back, Steve's been spending extra at Amazon to cover your absence.

Welcome back Frau, we missed you.

*not too much older than me but enough for me to be a cheeky young whippersnapper!

[frau kaleun]

@Vienna: lol, the only ones getting high around here are the cats, on catnip. And I'm sure there are singles bars, but I wouldn't go to one. I have a job, a home, and two feline dependents. The last thing I need is another something/someone to do for and worry about.

The kitties are doing fine, we celebrated their first birthday on July 4th and they have their yearly vet checkup for shots and stuff next week. They are as big as they are going to get, I hope, and seem healthy and happy. They still come running to meet me every day when I come home and spend most of their time hanging out wherever I am, or where they can keep tabs on me from a comfy napping spot.

[vienna]

Catnip is almost as much fun for a cat's human as it is for the cat. A friend of mine had a cat named "Meow" (my friend is smart but not very imaginative) and every Xmas, I would buy my friend a gift and include a little something for Meow. One year, I gave a box of catnip to my friend for her cat. My friend wasn't quite familiar with catnip, so I told her to just take a bit of the 'nip, put it in an old sock and tie off the end to make a little 'nip ball. She was amazed and amused to watch her normally serene cat go a bit wild over the 'nip. Some days later after Xmas, my friend arrived home to find Meow had found the 'nip box and knocked it off the shelf. There was Meow, on the floor, rolling around on the floor in the pile of 'nip, in state of sheer bliss...


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