hmmm, a blog eh?

The buttons above....lol, no I don't plan on needing even a fraction of them.

Well I've gotten pretty far on this project.  Never mind those button that don't work above.Please understand if you are reading this thing, it's a dummy platform to test out the code editing for blogger and the CSS code it uses.  Also it is testing out how the mods interact with advertising and about 74 other smaller things that matter all together but no so much that important apart. This is the main reason why I will not take the time to list them here.

Can I just break and say that with my office window facing the street, Friday afternoons have a strangest drive by people.  It's very odd.  We have many many joggers and dog owners in the neighborhood, and all of them that live on top of the hill walk the ridge on the top and don't go down the hills so we see many people on foot going past the house.  We are also one removed from the main corner intersection that funnels all the through traffic and people on short cuts.  These reason make Craig s list drops curb alerts wonderful for us if we or getting things to move out.  It also attracts the strange.  and I'm watching a few of them now...lol  The guy below fell off his bike like three times at that intersection before he finally got going and started in on a cell phone call while getting past the house.

Yes very odd indeed. But enough of that.  this site is a testing platform and I'm ironing out the kinks here before I go any further.  I started doing some house keeping on the server and opened up a new server that will function for the back bone for the next year or so.  While setting it up, I decided to try out the new Wordpress blog cms that comes with the server use.  it's nice.  I was shocked at how much I liked it compared to the old version.  This is right out of the box. blog.badskeleton.com

More to come as I set up the server.  I'm also featuring some new shopping cart stuff that looks very promising.

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Chipping Paint.....Literally, yes Literally

The painting of the house...

I'm sure my whole block is starting to wonder when I'm going to be finished getting ready to paint.  There is no doubt in anyone's mind that I'm not even close to the actual act of painting.  I however am beginning to wonder myself when this will be as each trip up the ladder sends me back back down a few hours later with nothing but a feeling of dread and loom.  I tried out some heavy duty paint stripper.  It was clear after two tries that it would do nothing but make the job worse, which it did.  I returned the stuff the next day at Lowe's.  They took at back without so much as a word.  Today I tarted back at it, this time with a heat gun and paint scrapping knife.  Somehow the places I applied the paint remover to, became stronger, infused with power, enough to resist the heat gun and the knife.  That was great.  So now the three roof areas are super cruddy looking, and extra strong with that look of crud.

This whole mess started back in 2007 when we were looking to buy the house.  The house was being painted when we first found it.  Word to the wise;  If you are buying a house that is being painted while on the market, make sure the paint is being put on correctly.  If it isn't, you can lower your price buy $8000.  All they are doing is making it far worse.  In my case they were just trying t cover up and make it look nice for a season till it was out of their hands.  they didn't use primer, at all and to make matters worse, painted white with a flat coat with ZERO sheen.  Everywhere they didn't prime is peeling right off and everything painted over is holding super strong in the middle and super duper shitty on the edges, so it look extra crappy, thus making me remove most of it as well.
Man I could kill those guys.  They are literally costing me two months of work to get all this corrected so we can paint the house.

Much to do by Winter

In the news of moving stuff to make room in the house for the yards new wood shop, we have begun.  I busted my own butt today to move things around, come Tuesday of next week the erst will be moved out and I'll move in the wood working tools and power equipment.  I have many orders to fill and the store needs the supply stocked for Christmas.  There is much to do by winter.

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