Actually according to Snopes you can do this any day of the year
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Home Project
Mostly a picture blog today......I pulled up the carpeting in the living room and hallway and BC and I set a new wood floor.....bamboo.....and I love it. Jen, Peters GF helped me paint the room. It was a frosty grey kinda color, the carpet used to be burgundy. The job would have moved along a lot faster but we had so many problems with the nailing gun and compressor. Once we got working equipment we were able move at a good steady pace.
You can see the old color of the wall. We originally found hard wood floors under the carpet and originally thought we would just sand those down and refinish them, however, as you will see from more pictures the floor was covered in paint and we found 2 bad areas that had to be cut out due to dry rot and lots of dog piss. Previous owners dog must have used every spot for a bathroom. The carpet was so stained and stunk soooooooo bad. We pulled the old baseboard up as well it it was urined stained as well..... Stunk as bad as the carpet.Sad thing is the carpet wasn't supposed to be that old.....but it was cheap arpet.....the dye came up and got tracked into the kitchen so the white kitchen floors are now pink......that will be replaced soon as well. Or at least when I pay off the cost of the bamboo flooring. Well here are some more pictures of the process.......
And here is the room once floor was down....furniture in place.....and curtains up..............
You can see the old color of the wall. We originally found hard wood floors under the carpet and originally thought we would just sand those down and refinish them, however, as you will see from more pictures the floor was covered in paint and we found 2 bad areas that had to be cut out due to dry rot and lots of dog piss. Previous owners dog must have used every spot for a bathroom. The carpet was so stained and stunk soooooooo bad. We pulled the old baseboard up as well it it was urined stained as well..... Stunk as bad as the carpet.Sad thing is the carpet wasn't supposed to be that old.....but it was cheap arpet.....the dye came up and got tracked into the kitchen so the white kitchen floors are now pink......that will be replaced soon as well. Or at least when I pay off the cost of the bamboo flooring. Well here are some more pictures of the process.......
And here is the room once floor was down....furniture in place.....and curtains up..............
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Civic Duty
Well I was finally snagged for jury duty. I had avoided it for 18 years. I had to report yesterday the 28th of March. So I went and waited for my number to be called. There were 12 cases to be heard that day. About 11 I was called in for the second to last case.....I was hopin' for going home soon. we were walked up to the courtroom where the prosecutor and defendant attorneys waited. We were all asked questions about personal commitments, had we ever been a victim of a crime, how many stars on the flag......ummmm yes that was asked, and if we went to sleep at night and the ground was dry and in the morning we woke up it was wet, could we connect the dots enough to be able, by common sense,to know it rained over night. DUH!!! So anyway they eventually picked a jury and we were all ushered back into the court room, 21 of us in all. Names were called and after six jurors I was thinking I was outta there, WRONG! I was number 7, the alternate. DAMN!
So there I was stuck in the courtroom for a criminal mischief case. As the story goes the guy worked for a small business that did shipping. We will refer to him as Mr L. He had gotten into a heated argument with another employee and apparently got really loud. A third employee tried to get both sides to come down but Mr L just got madder and madder. He eventually stormed off and headed out to a warehouse. He slammed open the doors to the warehouse and broke them and the frame of the door. $1000.00 in damages. About this time I was asking why this wasn't in a small claims court, answer...........because the cops had been called and was listed as criminal mischief. The case goes on calling on witnesses to testify on what happened. After at least 50 objections by the defense for "hearsay" we heard all the evidence. Not much to it. So the case rested and I was told I could wait in the back of the court since I was no longer needed. To think I could have been out and working, getting paid, instead of burning up a vacation day. Argh!, but that is the law of due process.....so here is what they had to decide....was it criminal mischief. There was three criteria for this...... 1) did the defendant commit the action, 2) did the defendant damage property that belonged to another and 3) was the act willful and with malicious intent. Well the court proved that Mr L did it, and they proved property was damaged, but was it will with malicious intent? Personally I didn't think so. People often get mad and knock something off a desk, barge through doors slam doors, etc but its usually because they are pissed, adrenaline is going and they are not thinking clearly.....in other words shit happens. When we are mad and punch a fist through a wall we don't do it cause we say to ourselves, I am gonna put a hole in the wall to damage it or I am pissed at so and so and I am gonna slam the door to break it, no, I just really think our better judgement disappears and the gut takes over. I would have voted not guilty. They jurors came back and voted him guilty and assessed him restitution of $200.00 to $1000.00 (how much the judge will decide) Interesting I thought, maybe it was better I was only the alternate, well at least for me, I got to leave at 4PM, had I still been on the jury, we might have been there later.
So there I was stuck in the courtroom for a criminal mischief case. As the story goes the guy worked for a small business that did shipping. We will refer to him as Mr L. He had gotten into a heated argument with another employee and apparently got really loud. A third employee tried to get both sides to come down but Mr L just got madder and madder. He eventually stormed off and headed out to a warehouse. He slammed open the doors to the warehouse and broke them and the frame of the door. $1000.00 in damages. About this time I was asking why this wasn't in a small claims court, answer...........because the cops had been called and was listed as criminal mischief. The case goes on calling on witnesses to testify on what happened. After at least 50 objections by the defense for "hearsay" we heard all the evidence. Not much to it. So the case rested and I was told I could wait in the back of the court since I was no longer needed. To think I could have been out and working, getting paid, instead of burning up a vacation day. Argh!, but that is the law of due process.....so here is what they had to decide....was it criminal mischief. There was three criteria for this...... 1) did the defendant commit the action, 2) did the defendant damage property that belonged to another and 3) was the act willful and with malicious intent. Well the court proved that Mr L did it, and they proved property was damaged, but was it will with malicious intent? Personally I didn't think so. People often get mad and knock something off a desk, barge through doors slam doors, etc but its usually because they are pissed, adrenaline is going and they are not thinking clearly.....in other words shit happens. When we are mad and punch a fist through a wall we don't do it cause we say to ourselves, I am gonna put a hole in the wall to damage it or I am pissed at so and so and I am gonna slam the door to break it, no, I just really think our better judgement disappears and the gut takes over. I would have voted not guilty. They jurors came back and voted him guilty and assessed him restitution of $200.00 to $1000.00 (how much the judge will decide) Interesting I thought, maybe it was better I was only the alternate, well at least for me, I got to leave at 4PM, had I still been on the jury, we might have been there later.
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