Avoiding the Dust
It's been a quick week since I last posted. I went to see a doctor about my short-lived whiplash symptoms last week and he gave me a complete, clean bill of health. I was able to flawlessly perform a complete range of back and neck motor functions, so whatever minor muscle injury I may or may not have had in the days after my early-January fender bender are completely gone. As far as compensation goes for the actual incident, it's in the hands of the insurance companies now. I just have to wait by a phone for someone to call me.
These last couple days have been like gangbusters for the home improvements my folks have been working on. My parents had finally been contacted by carpet installers (After waiting a month for them to free up time for us) and they're coming this Wednesday to re-carpet the entire staircase, second level hallways and, of course, the theater room. To get a deal on the carpet installation, we've decided to rip up the old carpet and dispose of it ourselves. Once the new carpet is in, that will mark the completion of the renovation to the theater room, formerly just a family room slash office. It has been an incredible two-month transformation. We may be finally watching movies in there as soon as Sunday the 22nd.
Ripping up carpet is a potential problem for my asthma. 15 years of pet dander, food particles and dead human skin flakes (AKA Dust) being suddenly thrown up into the closed atmosphere of the family residence can only be described as potentially dreadful for me (Breathing is nice. I like breathing. I'd like to continue to breathe). Some people wouldn't look at the situation like that, but having asthma changes the way I approach projects involving dust and free-floating particulates. Fearing a flare-up of breathing symptoms, I fled the house and spent the weekend and Monday with Val and Franko at their home a couple miles away while my folks ripped up carpet. It was nice. I brought my computer and tried to work on a couple projects, but they had cable TV and a TiVo-like contraption that had hours of MythBusters and South Park recorded. As you can imagine, I didn't accomplish a whole lot.
It's gonna be another quick week. I'll probably help out with the new carpet and setting up the audio equipment for the theater room as well as my own stuff to which there never seems to be an end of little projects. And I have GOT to sell off that blasted XL1 camcorder. Seriously. Have GOT to. ARG. Ohh and let's not forget the DVD I need to produce containing all my photography from the road trip. Or how about getting those photos online so you all can see them? Or what about getting a job? Wow, do I have work to do!
These last couple days have been like gangbusters for the home improvements my folks have been working on. My parents had finally been contacted by carpet installers (After waiting a month for them to free up time for us) and they're coming this Wednesday to re-carpet the entire staircase, second level hallways and, of course, the theater room. To get a deal on the carpet installation, we've decided to rip up the old carpet and dispose of it ourselves. Once the new carpet is in, that will mark the completion of the renovation to the theater room, formerly just a family room slash office. It has been an incredible two-month transformation. We may be finally watching movies in there as soon as Sunday the 22nd.
Ripping up carpet is a potential problem for my asthma. 15 years of pet dander, food particles and dead human skin flakes (AKA Dust) being suddenly thrown up into the closed atmosphere of the family residence can only be described as potentially dreadful for me (Breathing is nice. I like breathing. I'd like to continue to breathe). Some people wouldn't look at the situation like that, but having asthma changes the way I approach projects involving dust and free-floating particulates. Fearing a flare-up of breathing symptoms, I fled the house and spent the weekend and Monday with Val and Franko at their home a couple miles away while my folks ripped up carpet. It was nice. I brought my computer and tried to work on a couple projects, but they had cable TV and a TiVo-like contraption that had hours of MythBusters and South Park recorded. As you can imagine, I didn't accomplish a whole lot.
It's gonna be another quick week. I'll probably help out with the new carpet and setting up the audio equipment for the theater room as well as my own stuff to which there never seems to be an end of little projects. And I have GOT to sell off that blasted XL1 camcorder. Seriously. Have GOT to. ARG. Ohh and let's not forget the DVD I need to produce containing all my photography from the road trip. Or how about getting those photos online so you all can see them? Or what about getting a job? Wow, do I have work to do!