If you don’t look real close at my “handy work” it doesn’t look bad. Wit the carpet installation scheduled for next week, this daily doom will just about be complete and I’ll be that much closer to (finally) moving into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I bought this house a little over a month ago, I figured I’d have to do some tinkering around it, but didn’t for see this. What a frustrating day this was. The Wainscoting wouldn’t fit right, some of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is what the old panels (that were torn out because of water damage) looked like. And this is what the new panels will look like.
This was a long day. But by the time I gathered my stuff and drove back to my mom’s house for dinner (where I’m still living until I finish fixing up this family room) I’d got a lot done. All[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I looked over my work on these walls I can see every gap, every blemish, every part that looks out of place. I’m no dry waller, no handy man, but I guess I’ll just have to live with it.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yep. That’s it. I’m done. So many of the contractors who did return my calls couldn’t get me in until the late fall. Well, I’m going to tackle this project myself. I just hope I don’t screw it up.
While I was unemployed over the period of 2015-2017 (as I depicted numerous times in these comics) I grew used to never hearing back from employers I had reached out to, applied to or interviewed with. I didn’t like it,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just in case you may think I’m really exaggerating with the drawing on panel 3, here’s a photo of that tree filled drain: