November 15, 2014
November 15, 2014
I came up with two designs for my client and put them up on my design blog. One featured octagonal corner sections on casters, and the other was the idea of merely fastening doors together by hinges that the already have on them. The latter looks something like an accordion, the only modification of which is the addition of a door width added on to reach a total of nine foot eight inches high, the height of the window cornice in the loft space. These I did during the cold snap, watching BooBoo’s abscess get a little better each day. He’s so indomitable I fear he would die of boredom first confined indoors for the rest of his life as I am liable to figure out a new way for him to live with me. I was thinking of getting a pet for him, like a rabbit or something or finding a video of birds that I could put on the computer to run on the computer while I am away.
I got back into work yesterday fixing this and that at the warehouse. They keep running into things with the forklifts. Today will be ceiling repair over the stairwell on fourth floor. Somewhere the roof had a new leak, and it damaged the work I did on the ceiling a few years back.
The new local library opened up. I stopped in Thursday night, not even going all the way into Pueblo for internet service. They’ve been building it since late March when the temps were still freezing; seven months. I remember the black blankets they put over the foundations. Ribbon cutting was Wednesday when it was maybe two degrees Fahrenheit. Grand opening today. I learned how to use a laptop, somewhat. There’s a gas fireplace in there with two wingback chairs. It would be cozy if it weren’t so damn well-lit. It’s all better than a kick in the pants. I’ll get use to it; all the newness and closeness.
Got a phone call from __________, the potter/artist in Pueblo. He’s the one who had also called me to consult about mouldmaking for his fountain project, but then didn’t call me to help work on it back when he got his $50k grant to build it. I didn’t charge him anything then for consulting. I should have told him yesterday I don’t consult for free anymore, but I did shine him on. He was trying to get trade secrets for free regarding Haddonstone’s dry-cast concrete formulation, saying he was visiting over there and “thought of me”. I never learned that while I was there a decade ago, and they never shared it with me. I told him that he’d have to experiment, that is, do the actual work, to come close. What an asshole! Then he feigned remote interest in what I was doing. I shined him on there too. That fountain he and his wife did is the ugliest, unfinished-looking thing I’ve ever seen on two continents. It’s sad, because he has done some nicer things since then and before. “Super-plasticizer, look into it.” Jesus! They build sky-scrapers with it. I didn’t go so far as to say that plasticizers are wetting agents, flocculants that more efficiently surround the cement molecules with water while it sets; Melamine is one of them, Aluminum-stearate another. I think I will write him an old-fashioned letter and send it to him saying that I no longer consult for free. I should say I may for twice what I make as a carpenter, so…$50.00/hour. And I’ll put it into perspective that Ball Consulting will do the same for $800/day.
I came up with two designs for my client and put them up on my design blog. One featured octagonal corner sections on casters, and the other was the idea of merely fastening doors together by hinges that the already have on them. The latter looks something like an accordion, the only modification of which is the addition of a door width added on to reach a total of nine foot eight inches high, the height of the window cornice in the loft space. These I did during the cold snap, watching BooBoo’s abscess get a little better each day. He’s so indomitable I fear he would die of boredom first confined indoors for the rest of his life as I am liable to figure out a new way for him to live with me. I was thinking of getting a pet for him, like a rabbit or something or finding a video of birds that I could put on the computer to run on the computer while I am away.
I got back into work yesterday fixing this and that at the warehouse. They keep running into things with the forklifts. Today will be ceiling repair over the stairwell on fourth floor. Somewhere the roof had a new leak, and it damaged the work I did on the ceiling a few years back.
The new local library opened up. I stopped in Thursday night, not even going all the way into Pueblo for internet service. They’ve been building it since late March when the temps were still freezing; seven months. I remember the black blankets they put over the foundations. Ribbon cutting was Wednesday when it was maybe two degrees Fahrenheit. Grand opening today. I learned how to use a laptop, somewhat. There’s a gas fireplace in there with two wingback chairs. It would be cozy if it weren’t so damn well-lit. It’s all better than a kick in the pants. I’ll get use to it; all the newness and closeness.
Got a phone call from __________, the potter/artist in Pueblo. He’s the one who had also called me to consult about mouldmaking for his fountain project, but then didn’t call me to help work on it back when he got his $50k grant to build it. I didn’t charge him anything then for consulting. I should have told him yesterday I don’t consult for free anymore, but I did shine him on. He was trying to get trade secrets for free regarding Haddonstone’s dry-cast concrete formulation, saying he was visiting over there and “thought of me”. I never learned that while I was there a decade ago, and they never shared it with me. I told him that he’d have to experiment, that is, do the actual work, to come close. What an asshole! Then he feigned remote interest in what I was doing. I shined him on there too. That fountain he and his wife did is the ugliest, unfinished-looking thing I’ve ever seen on two continents. It’s sad, because he has done some nicer things since then and before. “Super-plasticizer, look into it.” Jesus! They build sky-scrapers with it. I didn’t go so far as to say that plasticizers are wetting agents, flocculants that more efficiently surround the cement molecules with water while it sets; Melamine is one of them, Aluminum-stearate another. I think I will write him an old-fashioned letter and send it to him saying that I no longer consult for free. I should say I may for twice what I make as a carpenter, so…$50.00/hour. And I’ll put it into perspective that Ball Consulting will do the same for $800/day.