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Green Destiny

Cosmic Variance
By cjohnson
Nov 14, 2005 9:28 AMNov 5, 2019 8:05 AM

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Ok. For those of you who were wondering, I have not forgotten my other role on this blog as pointless "weatherman-type" person. (My choice, of course. And I mean no disrespect to weatherpeople, but you recall that trend network tv stations had to have those pointless and silly items at the end of the serious news? Always done by the weatherpeople, never the serious anchorperson?). Anyway, I'm back. Yay. So today the sun came back, properly. And we'll have at least a week of perfect sunshine. I was beginning to wonder, I'll admit. I was also beginning to worry that we would not get a stretch of sun before the rainy season begins, and I needed desperately (recall the chat with JoAnne and Ann Nelson; see comment thread of this post) to paint deck surfaces around the house before the bleak MidWinter hits properly. So today was painting-the-deck duty, mostly. There's something very satisfying about getting all the right kit (deck, deck paint, deck shoes, Desmond Dekker playing on ipod, change your name to Decklan....), doing the prep, and then looking at the task laid out before you.

Good honest, steady work. And work of the sort that allow you to think about other stuff (like physics) as you go. Excellent. (Um...JoAnne -I guess I've revealed that I'm using a roller. I know that it goes against what you said, but I examined the previous paint job and it seemed like that is what they'd done....and the guy in the hardware store was very convincing.... and there are so many hours in the day: they did not have a huge paintbrush on a stick I could use.....Am I doomed?) -cvj

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