Lazy Weekend
Oct. 17th, 2010 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aNo gaming yesterday. We're in the summer break between shows, as it were, with both Savage Tide and Traveller Season One completed (though I still need to finish my AP of the latter). We'll have another week off next Saturday for Chris W.'s wedding, then I think we're going to be returning to RPing on October 30.
So yesterday I got lunch downtown then ran a bunch of errands, from buying a new razor blade to try and get the last bits of caulking out of my dining room window to borrowing a new Nick Hornby novel from the library. Thursday Chris (A.) suggested that I might try a heat gun to get paint off the other windows and also suggested that I might borrow one from the Berkeley Tool Lending Library. I also stopped by there (which is near Donald's former apartment), but, alas, discovered that they wanted three specific forms of ID, of which I only had two on hand.
I considered going back to the library after getting home, but instead decided to just relax for the rest of the day. Kimberly had said I seemed stressed lately, so I decided to take her word on that and spent the rest of the afternoon reading and writing. Just as well I didn't go back to get a heat gun, it turns out.
By the time evening rolled around, I was mostly brainless. After a hallucinatory trip through Safeway for groceries and another episode of Glee, I retreated upstairs to work more on my history book. After about an hour and a half spent writing, rewriting, and rewriting the same two pages, I decided I wasn't getting any more of that done.
(I went over them again just now and they were mostly OK, I'm happy to say, but the difference was I actually could finish the polishing today.)
Today I was surprised to find lots of rain in the forecast. So, no caulk-completion with my new tools (and definitely no heat gunning, if I'd gotten that tool). Instead I've taped up the area that needs to be caulked with my new (and much better) painter's blue tape. That should keep it safe until I actually caulk the damned thing later this week.
Now, I really have nothing to do today other than completing the articles I'm working on, and so I plan to relax lots while going back and forth on that. I'm hoping the rain will be going hard enough that I can hear it on the sun room roof as I sit around and read. It's been pretty weak sauce so far ...
So yesterday I got lunch downtown then ran a bunch of errands, from buying a new razor blade to try and get the last bits of caulking out of my dining room window to borrowing a new Nick Hornby novel from the library. Thursday Chris (A.) suggested that I might try a heat gun to get paint off the other windows and also suggested that I might borrow one from the Berkeley Tool Lending Library. I also stopped by there (which is near Donald's former apartment), but, alas, discovered that they wanted three specific forms of ID, of which I only had two on hand.
I considered going back to the library after getting home, but instead decided to just relax for the rest of the day. Kimberly had said I seemed stressed lately, so I decided to take her word on that and spent the rest of the afternoon reading and writing. Just as well I didn't go back to get a heat gun, it turns out.
By the time evening rolled around, I was mostly brainless. After a hallucinatory trip through Safeway for groceries and another episode of Glee, I retreated upstairs to work more on my history book. After about an hour and a half spent writing, rewriting, and rewriting the same two pages, I decided I wasn't getting any more of that done.
(I went over them again just now and they were mostly OK, I'm happy to say, but the difference was I actually could finish the polishing today.)
Today I was surprised to find lots of rain in the forecast. So, no caulk-completion with my new tools (and definitely no heat gunning, if I'd gotten that tool). Instead I've taped up the area that needs to be caulked with my new (and much better) painter's blue tape. That should keep it safe until I actually caulk the damned thing later this week.
Now, I really have nothing to do today other than completing the articles I'm working on, and so I plan to relax lots while going back and forth on that. I'm hoping the rain will be going hard enough that I can hear it on the sun room roof as I sit around and read. It's been pretty weak sauce so far ...