This is gonna be the year of DIY initiatives. Anything that I can figure out how to do myself, I'm gonna do myself, rather than pay someone else.
Today I cleaned the toilets! Well most of them! I need another good nights rest before I tackle Adrians!!
And while you may think that's a pretty straightforward task I'm also pretty sure there's better ways to do it than I did today. Then there's the sinks, and the showers. and the counter tops, and the mirrors, and the appliances, and so on, and so on. There will be some learning there as well.
I started with this stuff and while it worked pretty good, overspray was a bit of a problem. I ended up wiping walls and floors as well, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna do any of Roos work!
I accepted this part of our joint housekeeping duties since it's something I understand. It is pretty straightforward to see when a toilet's clean. No ambiguity like there may be with sweeping, vacuuming or dusting.
I also decided that there will be no more of this paying someone else to change the oil in our cars. Of course in acknowledgement of my approaching senior-citizen-hood, I decided to get one of these to help me out.
For you non automotive types it's called a creeper. You lay down on it to roll yourself under the car, rather than drag your ass across the cold, hard floor. Believe me it is a significant pain saving device.
Only one problem!
I recently traded in my pickup truck for something a little more fuel friendly, and while I'm happy with my grampa car, it is unfortunately a lot closer to the ground than my old one. Once I add the 3 inches that laying on the creeper gives me, I could no longer get under the damn car!! My nose was always hitting something!!
So today I did a little browsing on Kijiji, and found a pair of these for 30 bucks.
Even the non-mechanical among you can probably figure what they are for. Yes indeed, you drive the front end of your car on top of these and, voila….you gain about 8" under the car.
So that's how I'm starting out the year. Cleaning toilets and changing oil. I would tell you that it's a humbling experience, but I can't really say that I feel any more humble. That could just mean that I'm already damn humble, or alternately that there ain't no cure for my arrogance?? And who really cares eh? The toilets need cleaned, and I'm gonna clean em! That's all that matters.
I even find it funny that while I'm home cleaning the toilets, my wife is out playing poker with her buddies! You see, I'm okay with it cause even though they are very nice people, her friends, they are also Leafs fans. I think she considers it charity work to visit them and give them some kind of a life. To put their lives in perspective you must remember that the last time a Leafs fan had anything to be happy about, the modern toilet hadn't yet been invented!!
So like I said. I'm starting with toilets and 10-W-30, and looking for other opportunities. And while it may not be a whole lot of fun, I nevertheless choose to be proud of it. Hell, I'm proud that we even have a toilet. After all, while it was a few years prior to 1967, I clearly remember shitting in a hole in the ground!
And you know that old body I mentioned earlier in the post? I gotta give you the bad news that I'm gonna have to take a little time off of running again. I'm afraid that's the only way my achilles is going to get better. Such is life.
Todays bike workout went well.
Computrainer, week 8, day 1---80 mins
"It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline."---George Lindsey
Love
Peter
Today I cleaned the toilets! Well most of them! I need another good nights rest before I tackle Adrians!!
And while you may think that's a pretty straightforward task I'm also pretty sure there's better ways to do it than I did today. Then there's the sinks, and the showers. and the counter tops, and the mirrors, and the appliances, and so on, and so on. There will be some learning there as well.
I started with this stuff and while it worked pretty good, overspray was a bit of a problem. I ended up wiping walls and floors as well, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna do any of Roos work!
I accepted this part of our joint housekeeping duties since it's something I understand. It is pretty straightforward to see when a toilet's clean. No ambiguity like there may be with sweeping, vacuuming or dusting.
I also decided that there will be no more of this paying someone else to change the oil in our cars. Of course in acknowledgement of my approaching senior-citizen-hood, I decided to get one of these to help me out.
For you non automotive types it's called a creeper. You lay down on it to roll yourself under the car, rather than drag your ass across the cold, hard floor. Believe me it is a significant pain saving device.
Only one problem!
I recently traded in my pickup truck for something a little more fuel friendly, and while I'm happy with my grampa car, it is unfortunately a lot closer to the ground than my old one. Once I add the 3 inches that laying on the creeper gives me, I could no longer get under the damn car!! My nose was always hitting something!!
So today I did a little browsing on Kijiji, and found a pair of these for 30 bucks.
Even the non-mechanical among you can probably figure what they are for. Yes indeed, you drive the front end of your car on top of these and, voila….you gain about 8" under the car.
So that's how I'm starting out the year. Cleaning toilets and changing oil. I would tell you that it's a humbling experience, but I can't really say that I feel any more humble. That could just mean that I'm already damn humble, or alternately that there ain't no cure for my arrogance?? And who really cares eh? The toilets need cleaned, and I'm gonna clean em! That's all that matters.
I even find it funny that while I'm home cleaning the toilets, my wife is out playing poker with her buddies! You see, I'm okay with it cause even though they are very nice people, her friends, they are also Leafs fans. I think she considers it charity work to visit them and give them some kind of a life. To put their lives in perspective you must remember that the last time a Leafs fan had anything to be happy about, the modern toilet hadn't yet been invented!!
So like I said. I'm starting with toilets and 10-W-30, and looking for other opportunities. And while it may not be a whole lot of fun, I nevertheless choose to be proud of it. Hell, I'm proud that we even have a toilet. After all, while it was a few years prior to 1967, I clearly remember shitting in a hole in the ground!
And you know that old body I mentioned earlier in the post? I gotta give you the bad news that I'm gonna have to take a little time off of running again. I'm afraid that's the only way my achilles is going to get better. Such is life.
Todays bike workout went well.
Computrainer, week 8, day 1---80 mins
"It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline."---George Lindsey
Love
Peter
If Adrian has his own toilet, I would make using it conditional on me being able to watch him clean it!
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Excuse me, but who won the BIG game at the BIG house on New Year's Day? They wear blue and white and have a Canadian symbol on their jerseys. Go LEAFS, go!!! Charity work, my ass!! Love, gail (Leaf fan from age 6 and that is a long time ago!!!!)
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