Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Slip-sliding away...

The year...life...my leisure...

I've finally shaken "the cold", grateful to have it "gone" but worried as Dottie is starting to cough and she has surgery next week. Hopefully her constant exposure to things at work will protect her a bit.

In the moments I had where I felt good last week I managed to drill the garage floor and bolt down the new air compressor; wired it; spent some time drawing a manifold system for it (air distribution) and made trips to Lowe's and Harbor Freight to accumulate the pieces for it. I assembled most of it yesterday and discovered I was one $1.08 piece short of finishing it; I've already been out today to get it and am waiting for the rain to subside so I can move the boat out enough to move my roll-away and assemble the last bits and leak check it. Having watched pipefitters do this kind of thing for 30 years at GM paid off handsomely. Having always worked at the long end of too much air hose at home, perhaps my "lug gun" will actually break the ones on my truck now instead of me doing it by hand!

Not much else going on at the moment...

May the week be kind to each of you!

alan


5 comments:

Riot Kitty said...

Sending you both good thoughts!

CrackerLilo said...

Oh, man. Hope Dottie gets better *fast*!!!

I hate hate hate being short just one small thing.

Sometimes it's best to not have a lot worth blogging about going on.

Anji said...

You make it all sound so easy.

Hope Dottie is okay for next week.

Angeline Rose Larimer said...

You're a constant sunshine, Alan. Just wanted to stop by today and write that. Have a good weekend!
Sincerely. & good health to all.

Green tea said...

Do you ever rest???