rough week
Jan. 14th, 2008 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hugmeThe last week has been really rough...
Work has been hell...we are having some serious problems with some of our vendors... but that's actually small...
We were gone from the house for 2 weeks during the holidays... we finally did the dishes and the kitchen started to fill up with water. I pulled out the dishwasher and mice had eaten through the top of the dishwasher along with destroying the drainage hose. so we had to buy a new dishwasher.... ugh... we had it put in Friday and didn't have a problem but did a second load and it started to leak again. I had a hell of a time getting the new dishwasher out. It turns out the guy who put it in made the power cable so short that I had to cut it just to get the damn thing out. there is a hole in the new drain pipe. So now I need to replace the drain pipe AND the power.
I put out mouse traps last night... 4 of them. When I checked them this morning there was 1 trap left and it had been destroyed. Today I am going to go out and get the big rat traps. lots of them.
we are having some trouble with the guy who is working on the house, we haven't heard from him in a few weeks. I left him a message every freaking day last week. well he finally called last night after I called one of his partners and told him everything going on. He says he will be there Tuesday but we will see.
I am working in the shop... It's a little frustrating. There are some tools I would like which I can't really afford right now. That's tough... but I can make due with what I have. some of the tools I'm having to get very creative to make work. They are nice tools but it's hard to do some of the things I want to do with them. For example my dato blade. The chuck on my table saw isn't really long enough for a dato blade so I'm having to go and find a bushing to make up for it. I can use it now but the cuts aren't as clean as I would like. I can get around all of that.. the biggest problem I'm having is space.. there just isn't the space I would like to have for a nice shop. It's hard to work in such a confined space sometimes. My router table sits on a shelf, to use it I have to pull it out and set it on top of my table saw as there is no other place to put it. I built a high work bench (because I'm so tall) I can't even use because it's so full of junk.
hopefully this week will be better, I'm going to try to fix the dishwasher today, I'm going to get some rat traps. I have someone I KNOW will do work coming out I'm meeting this afternoon to work on part of the house. I'm also going to try to clean a little bit of the garage every day so that I have more space.
Maybe I will have gotten rid of some of my frustration by the end of the week :-)
Work has been hell...we are having some serious problems with some of our vendors... but that's actually small...
We were gone from the house for 2 weeks during the holidays... we finally did the dishes and the kitchen started to fill up with water. I pulled out the dishwasher and mice had eaten through the top of the dishwasher along with destroying the drainage hose. so we had to buy a new dishwasher.... ugh... we had it put in Friday and didn't have a problem but did a second load and it started to leak again. I had a hell of a time getting the new dishwasher out. It turns out the guy who put it in made the power cable so short that I had to cut it just to get the damn thing out. there is a hole in the new drain pipe. So now I need to replace the drain pipe AND the power.
I put out mouse traps last night... 4 of them. When I checked them this morning there was 1 trap left and it had been destroyed. Today I am going to go out and get the big rat traps. lots of them.
we are having some trouble with the guy who is working on the house, we haven't heard from him in a few weeks. I left him a message every freaking day last week. well he finally called last night after I called one of his partners and told him everything going on. He says he will be there Tuesday but we will see.
I am working in the shop... It's a little frustrating. There are some tools I would like which I can't really afford right now. That's tough... but I can make due with what I have. some of the tools I'm having to get very creative to make work. They are nice tools but it's hard to do some of the things I want to do with them. For example my dato blade. The chuck on my table saw isn't really long enough for a dato blade so I'm having to go and find a bushing to make up for it. I can use it now but the cuts aren't as clean as I would like. I can get around all of that.. the biggest problem I'm having is space.. there just isn't the space I would like to have for a nice shop. It's hard to work in such a confined space sometimes. My router table sits on a shelf, to use it I have to pull it out and set it on top of my table saw as there is no other place to put it. I built a high work bench (because I'm so tall) I can't even use because it's so full of junk.
hopefully this week will be better, I'm going to try to fix the dishwasher today, I'm going to get some rat traps. I have someone I KNOW will do work coming out I'm meeting this afternoon to work on part of the house. I'm also going to try to clean a little bit of the garage every day so that I have more space.
Maybe I will have gotten rid of some of my frustration by the end of the week :-)
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Date: 2008-01-14 11:00 pm (UTC)www.garagejournal.com
Mostly towards gear heads but some nice wood shops as well. Great storage ideas.
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Date: 2008-01-16 01:45 pm (UTC)