Today went by pretty quickly. Last night there was a storm, one loud
enough to wake me up so I watched it for awhile. This morning I
learned that the wind was strong enough, and our fence was built
poorly enough, that a couple panels were pulled partially loose.
While I walked around the fence looking for other loose boards I
found one that had apparently never even been nailed in at the
bottom. Quality craftsmanship.
I didn't get around to fixing the loose panels today but I did go to
the hardware store and bought screws. The fence was built with
nails, which was obviously a poor choice. Almost as bad as choosing
this particular fence company to build a fence. So I'm going to
screw them back in place.
And going back to the quality of the fence builders, I was talking
with my dad about screws and we got on the topic of the double gate,
which has been “fixed” two or three times now. I've never built
a fence or a gate before but I was telling him my idea on how to make
a double gate better and it was pretty much spot-on with how my dad
has built them in the past. So we both agree that the one these guys
built is a piece of crap.
Before I went to the hardware store I ordered a pizza and after
picking up the screws I picked up the pizza. When I got home I baked
it and it was freaking delicious. If I had to pick one food for the
rest of my life, pizza is a no-brainer. There are so many varieties
and each of them are good in their own way.
I worked on my room a little bit today. It would be cool if I could
finish it tomorrow. I won't but I can certainly get closer. I
really need to start working on the main room because that's where a
bulk of my crap is. So although I have made decent progress on my
bedroom and computer room, it doesn't really matter because the main
room is overflowing. I still have some time left.
I also cleaned every inch of my bathroom today. The tile guys
yesterday left a fine layer of dust over everything, including the
shower. I don't get it. It seems rare that someone will come into
your house or place of work to build something or fix something and
then clean up after themselves. The worst are guys who have to do
work up in a tiled ceiling. If I ever did work in houses, part of
the service would include cleaning up my mess. Leaving a place
better than I found it. I learned that in Boy Scouts, policing a
campsite and picking up all the trash before we left, even if it
wasn't ours. I would feel like a complete asshole if I went into a
stranger's house and left a mess. Apparently these guys do not.
Tonight I watched It Follows, a horror movie that was kind of
disappointing. The basic premise is that someone has a being
following them that can take the shape of anyone from a complete
stranger to someone you know. The person being followed or someone
who has been followed in the past can see the being but no one else
can. The being only walks, so the person can run away from it, but
if it catches up to the person it will kill them, and then it goes
back to the previous person and starts following them again. The
only way to get rid of the being is to pass it on to someone else, by
having sex with them. The idea of it all, and taking some of the
dialogue from the movie itself, kind of makes it all sound like a
metaphor for an sexually transmitted infection. My first thought
when the main character had the being passed on to her and the guy
was explaining it, was that it sounded an awful lot like he just gave
her herpes. I'm giving it to you but it will still be with me, and
you can pass it on but it will still be with you. I haven't looked
into the movie at all but maybe it is actually a metaphor. If that
is just an unintentional interpretation maybe the writer should have
come up with a better method of transference than sex.
I also started watching the third season of Arrow. I got
through the first couple of episodes and at the end of the first they
killed someone off. Couldn't have done that in the second season? I
would be kind of annoyed as an actor if I was brought back for part
of an episode, after a break between seasons, just so I could be
killed off. I'm going to try but I don't know if I'll make it
through the whole season. My interest is losing steam. The second
season did a good job of wearing me down.
We're coming up on midnight now and I am going to call it a night.
How almost responsible of me. Tomorrow I will hopefully be fixing
the fence and then working on the basement. And eating leftover
pizza for dinner. Can't wait.
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