whew, solvents!

[mckitterick]

So today was cover-the-floor-sealant-that-releases-noxious-fumes day (the second stage of laying new floors, right after tearing out the rotten carpet). Wow. Chernobylred has offered to let me stay at their place tonight if the fumes are still strong -- I'm heading home in a few minutes to find out. If it's bad, I'll leave the pup overnight at doggy daycare and take her up on the offer. The drawback is that I couldn't do the household errands I was planning nor stay up all night watching the rest of Alias Season Two... >g<

Went to Home Despot today and picked up all the wood for building our window seat, partly so the floor-laying-guy can determine where to stop the tile (the base of the window seat). I'll just set two of the 2x4s down where the edge of the seat ends (it'll be 14 feet long! Cool!), and he'll use that as his measure. Carrying two sheets of 3/4" plywood by myself was fun, lemme tell you... plus getting it all into the Saab! -- you can actually fit a huge pile of 2x4s and two sheets of 3/4" plywood into the back of a last-gen Saab. Though the plywood fits REALLY snugly, I could have carried a ton of wood. It's a pickup with a topper, only sleek. Good old car.

Gotta love the Alias series; I accidentally purchased Season Two yesterday and stayed up a bit late watching the first disk-and-a-half. Best series ever.

Off to fumes and the dog (hey, that's fumes twice, if you know Hope...).

Best,
Chris

Comments

[chernobylred.livejournal.com]

I accidentally purchased Season Two yesterday

This sounds like something 0 would say. How do you manage to do that? It must be some special ability only granted to boys.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

It's the same way guys have to go to the ER with, um, vacuum-cleaner injuries. They were vacuuming in the nude and tripped. Whenever Chris says this to me, I always imagine that he was walking out of the store empty-handed, and a copy of Alias: Second Season started wrapping itself around his legs the way cats do until he stumbled and, putting out one hand to save himself, the credit card in his wallet flew out and fell in the scanner, and that was that.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

That's exactly it! Darned DVDs, they are such little rascals.

Chris

[http://users.livejournal.com/kai_/]

You're always welcome to stay here, I've got a spare bed, and the dog is also welcome, though he may terrorize the cats a bit.

And if you're free New Year's Eve, I'm hosting a small gathering (really small, so far I know of one other person who said they MIGHT be here...) at my place. It'll be quiet and cozy and lots of fruit and trivial pursuits.

phone 979-8734 if you're interested.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the offers! I ended up sleeping with the windows partly open, which isn't as bad as you might think. I was invited to Chernobylred's for New Year's Eve, and ended up spending much of the time outdoors with the smokers on account of the psycho dog (fireworks sound too much like thunder).

Sounds like you had a nice New Year's Eve planned -- sitting down to pursue trivial things is one of my faves. Sometime soon we'll have our gaming room ready (aka the living room), with a 14' long window-seat filled with various trivial pursuits, and you're invited!

Chris

[http://users.livejournal.com/kai_/]

Can't wait for trivia with you two. :)
I think when Sweetie gets here, the four of us could have a *lot* of fun.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

I forgot to call! Juveniles stayed a day later, and confused my mind.

[http://users.livejournal.com/kai_/]

You're the only other person I know who calls it Home Despot.