AN EXPERIMENTAL LIFE
My garage needed to be a workshop. After all, if I'm going to be doing all this work on the house, I've got to have a command center from which to make it happen. I invested in a table top mitre saw (mounted it on an old microwave cart), a portable table saw, cordless power drills (one for shooting screws, one for drilling holes), and I decided I need shelves. Plus, the garage was just studs. So I … [Read more...]
The bathroom had only a pair of flourescent shop lights on either side of a really long school bathroom mirror (you know, just a piece of mirror glass screwed to the wall). There was a hole in the wall where an old light fixture once was, over the mirror, no bathroom fan, and a dismal vanity with water damage. The drawers and cabinet door someone added to the former water heater closet (could one … [Read more...]
The former add-on closet had been added back when the previous home owner got her first washing machine (maybe in the 1960s?). The closet isn't the best construction, but it's secure enough for the patio room. The main problem is that the separate roof for that closet leaked. The closet roof just doesn't have enough pitch to it. It was almost flat, so I have to bring it up to a higher … [Read more...]
We have this really long "room" that runs the length of the house, because it's really the back patio, and they built a room around it. The floor is the cheapest, vomit-colored lineoleum tile (the kind you see in old elementary schools) that's been held down with a red concrete sealant. The dog peed out there a lot when we moved in, and soon the ammonia interacted with the sealant, and up came … [Read more...]
I can't stand the slimy, wet look of the dark stained kitchen cabinets. Add to that bubble-gum pink counter tile ringed with chocolate brown bullnose tiles, and dingy white walls, and it's just hideous. The cabinet doors are good old birch plywood with fur-core, from the days when plywood was sturdier and made w. hardwood cores. I sanded the cabinet frames and drawers (under the … [Read more...]
Radio Transcript Host: Daniel DiGriz Guest: Batman DiGriz: We're back with tonight's guest, the unmistakeable and always enigmatic Batman. <applause> DiGriz: So... what's the deal with this whole bat thing. Why not Aardvark Man or Gopher Man or Koala Man? Why bats, specifically? Batman: I... you're making fun of me. DiGriz: No, no, I'm not. I … [Read more...]
Radio Transcript Host: Daniel DiGriz Guest: Jason Voorhees DiGriz: OK, our next guest is Jason Voorhees. You may know him simply as Jason, notably from his work at Camp Lake Crystal, his tour of Manhattan, and his well publicized recent fight with Freddy Kreuger. <applause> DiGriz: So, Jason, welcome back. <audience laughter> Jason: It's … [Read more...]
