It’s been cold and windy for the last several days. Cold here meaning 50’s in the mornings. Makes me want to huddle in front of a warm computer screen with a hot cup of tea.
Deer are grazing on acorns under the big oak tree outside my window and keeping a wary eye on me. They have such sensitive hearing. If I tap on a key they look up.
I’ve been trying to paint the new doors but for one reason or another I’m having a hard time. Maybe it is the temperatures; maybe it is the brand of paint. Maybe it is because I am trying to cover white primer with a very dark green. Or could it be that I am just an incompetent painter?
I switched from a brush to a roller and that seemed to help. A man at the hardware store suggested an additive to make the paint flow better. That seemed to help a little too.
At any rate the task is taking longer than it should. If the sun comes out and it warms up I may be able to finish up this afternoon.
And now my computer is starting to act up again too. It looks to be the beginning of the same symptoms I had last spring. I found somebody to repair it then fairly economically but I seriously thought about replacing it. It was really bogging down last night so I opened the task manager and noticed that the CPU was running at 100%. I started closing tabs and when I closed the one with the NY Times up it suddenly dropped to 5%. I rebooted and when I reopened that site it went back up to 100. I tried it again and the computer wouldn’t reboot.
This morning every thing seems back to normal. But I’m thinking about what I ought to back up.
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I’ve been painting the ceiling of my kitchen today and I can announce without hesitation that I am a bad painter.
I had to paint three coats over the white gutters when I painted them Purple! Just may have to repaint them!
Bill, if you don’t have a Gmail or other high-capacity account you should get one. Then do two kinds of backups. Back up files onto media (CDs, DVDs, whatever) at home, and mail yourself your most important files to your email account. You will probably want to archive (zip) the files that you mail to yourself.
Dark green sounds like a good choice with your brick. Dark colors can take several coats to cover white primer; our dark red dining room paint required four coats to cover the previous owner’s baby blue. Too late for this project, but if you ever want to use a dark color over primer again, you might try putting on an additional coat of primer, tinted in the color you’ll be painting over it. It won’t be as dark as the paint you use, but you’ll get good coverage in fewer coats.