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The only picture I can find of me with a full beard. More or less. Yosemite 1988.
I don't have a picture with a full beard. I'll ask my mom if she has one. My work mates said I looked like Grizzly Adams, my grandmother said Charles Manson.The only picture I can find of me with a full beard. More or less. Yosemite 1988.
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My face doesn't feel like I just shaved.
It feels like I woke up with a BBS.
R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen
It is solid as a rock. In places where I could feel the blade flex with the GC-OC84, the Karve OC D baseplate ruthlessly sliced through the stubble, never wanting to bite.
So I told SWMBO that I wasn't going to shave any later than 7 in the morning, or 7 in the evening. I like to watch the 7 o'clock news, after the news, I don't want to shave.
Then she has the nerve to tell me she doesn't like the hair on my face .
I no longer have ANY SHAVING products on the sink, I even started keeping my toothbrush and cup under the sink also. Until she gets the message, I'm a keeping a few weeks of stubble on my face. I'm not trimming my 'stache either. There are a half dozen or so razors and brushes on my desk though
Remember the TV show Dan Tanna?A mechanic friends garage is like a living room. PC, TV, couch and chairs, coffee table, coffee maker, urinal, sink and mirror and, a 1969 El Camino SS. Heated and AC'd too, naturally lol.
Remember the TV show Dan Tanna?
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The building on the left is the actual building on Las Vegas Blvd. This picture is on the internet, but I drove by it once during the 1980's, and this is exactly what it looked like.
With the passing of my 97 year old Mother several years ago, I discovered there was an annuity that has allowed me to retire a year sooner than I had previously planned. Next month when my pensions and SS kick in, the search for an upgrade from our 2 bedroom, 1 car garage condo will begin.
Working 6 days a week, sometimes 7, for the last 35+ years, leaving the house by 4 am most days to start the workday, the last 16 years married and raising two kids, I never had to witness the dynamo that SWMBO is, every single morning. I had thought she was only this way on Sundays
She takes control of the kitchen and bathroom from 4:30am to 7:45am or so when she leaves for work, and the house settles down to normal, just me, the kids, and Casey, my 30 year old parrot. It really is pretty amazing how the house just quiets down as the Boss leaves the building. Of course, by then it is too late to shave. Even though I still get up early, I have never been a morning shaver, and the window of time when I could sneak in a morning shave is too unpredictable for me to even bother trying.
In the evenings since my retirement, she has decided that when she takes a shower precludes when I want to, which is fine by me. It is the way she waits until I decide to take a shower, that it is now her turn, and I must wait for her "5 minute" shower, which is more like 20-45 minutes. With a 30 minute pre-shower prep time.
I'm starting to think that I should just walk into the kitchen 2 or 3 hours before I want to shave and fill up my water mug with hot water.....
This is how my last weekend went.Just taking care of a house, inside and out, is a huge never ending job. Adding kids to that would be too much for any sane person.
This is how my last weekend went.
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When my condo was built the tiles were never laid properly and the toilet wobbled a bit. This led to the retaining ring being damaged, necessitating the use of epoxy to hold the bolts in place. A new wax ring and shims to counteract the poorly laid tiles, some silicon to keep them in place.
I tried to call a plumber and have the job done right, but of course it was a Friday when I started the project, and I guess that plumbers don't work weekends, or don't answer their phones on Friday's either.
To do the job right, the tiles need to be replaced and the wood under the toilet needs to be replaced also, as there is wood rot. Not a job that I have any experience at, so I called 3 plumbers, none called me back.
I figured the job would cost me at least $2500 to have a professional do the work for me, and I was more than willing to pay the money. But I needed to get the bathroom fixed like now, so I just did the best I could with the tools on hand, and the lack of knowledge to do the job properly. And the bleeping plumbers wouldn't even call me back.
Cost me $25 and two days of my time. That and being reminded that I will be selling the place very soon.
Caveat Emptor
I was going to use the neoprene ring, but with the included spacer the toilet would not sit flush, and without the spacer it felt like it wasn't even touching. It isn't leaking now, that is what mattersUse a neoprene ring instead of a wax ring.
I was going to use the neoprene ring, but with the included spacer the toilet would not sit flush, and without the spacer it felt like it wasn't even touching. It isn't leaking now, that is what matters