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Today after work I need to pack and prep for the poly weekend I'm hosting at our cottage. Should be pretty easy, aside from having to go up into the attic of 'Gah Hot Breathing Hurts' to get a few things. Want to get all this done today so tomorrow rather than running around like mad, I just have to snag the few things I can't leave in the car and go.
Stopped by the cottage yesterday to check on its readiness for guests. Mom has been repainting the entire inside over the course of the summer (generally doing a coat of paint on a wall each visit). Found that the long wall on the 2nd floor had 1 coat of paint on it and ended up doing the 2nd coat so I can move the furniture back against it this weekend. Gah but painting on the 2nd floor in this heat was less than fun. But it is done, and mom was glad I'd done the painting rather than just moving the furniture and ignoring it. Also put a new light fixture on the ceiling fan in the bedroom.
So this weekend is poly weekend at the cottage. The nice thing about these is that guests aren't even a requirement, even if not one person shows up I get a nice weekend at the cottage. Takes some of the stress out of event planning that way. If I get sufficiently adventureous/bored over the weekend I may start in on my plan for the abandoned truck in the woods near the cottage[1].
Then this coming week I get to attempt ot rebuild the transmission on Emily. While *having* to do it is annoying (estimate to have it done? $500+. Rebuild kit+manual+tools? ~$150-200), I am getting excited at the prospect of a mechanical challenge I've never tried before. Plus it'll probably demistify automatic transmissions enough that they'll stop being black boxes to me.
Then the next weekend is Poly Diner Meetup on Friday and likely Pi-Con for the rest of the weekend.
[1] a rust old Chevy S-10. I want to fill the bed with dirt, transplant some trees & small plants into it, and use more dirt/peat/leaf debris to try and convince some transplanted moss to start growing on the rest of the body. With a bit of luck I can get the whole thing taken over by plants.
Stopped by the cottage yesterday to check on its readiness for guests. Mom has been repainting the entire inside over the course of the summer (generally doing a coat of paint on a wall each visit). Found that the long wall on the 2nd floor had 1 coat of paint on it and ended up doing the 2nd coat so I can move the furniture back against it this weekend. Gah but painting on the 2nd floor in this heat was less than fun. But it is done, and mom was glad I'd done the painting rather than just moving the furniture and ignoring it. Also put a new light fixture on the ceiling fan in the bedroom.
So this weekend is poly weekend at the cottage. The nice thing about these is that guests aren't even a requirement, even if not one person shows up I get a nice weekend at the cottage. Takes some of the stress out of event planning that way. If I get sufficiently adventureous/bored over the weekend I may start in on my plan for the abandoned truck in the woods near the cottage[1].
Then this coming week I get to attempt ot rebuild the transmission on Emily. While *having* to do it is annoying (estimate to have it done? $500+. Rebuild kit+manual+tools? ~$150-200), I am getting excited at the prospect of a mechanical challenge I've never tried before. Plus it'll probably demistify automatic transmissions enough that they'll stop being black boxes to me.
Then the next weekend is Poly Diner Meetup on Friday and likely Pi-Con for the rest of the weekend.
[1] a rust old Chevy S-10. I want to fill the bed with dirt, transplant some trees & small plants into it, and use more dirt/peat/leaf debris to try and convince some transplanted moss to start growing on the rest of the body. With a bit of luck I can get the whole thing taken over by plants.
