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Sodium Free
“Road salt is like the automotive equivalent of chain smoking unfiltered cigarettes and guzzling Jack Daniels… might make you feel better for awhile, but there’s shit going on inside that you don’t want to see.”
—World Wide Web Wisdom
I spotted that quote while searching LR forums looking for transmission information. It reminded me that, luckily, Fairbanks does not use salt on our roads. They do use sand, gravel, rocks and boulders, which explains why we have more cracked windshields per capita than any other state. There is nothing quite like the feeling of the slow motion sight of a boulder coming at your newly replaced windshield from the tires of a decked out 4×4 in the oncoming lane.
Above priceless.
Snow, vile snow
Winter has at last found Interior Alaska. It’s been snowing here all day and this time I imagine it will stick until May. It’s been a nice autumnal run, but alas… it has come to the dreaded, white, inevitable end.
I spent much of the afternoon in the Rover Hut. A work bench has been built, power run over from the cabin, and two pendant lights have been wired in place and they now hang from the weather-resistant lid. I started up the torpedo heater, and within 5 mins I had to take off my jacket. 30 secs later, it started to rain inside due to the condensation, and 5 mins after that the snow had slid off the roof. Not a major test of the heater with the balmy 20 degree air outside, but it will certainly heat the shelter at zero or above. Which is all I’m asking it to do.
I admit, I’m getting kind of antsy to get some things done to The Rover. Plans to work on it this summer were put aside to chase the mighty dollar, but winter is a good time for projects, although now I’m hankering for a real garage/shop.
I was asked to housesit for someone this month. I declined the invite to stay there, but agreed to check the place daily. “If it gets cold, and you need to use the garage…”
I tried to play that one cool, but I know my eyes lit up when that was offered, and it probably seemed odd when I later casually asked to see the garage and measured the height of the door.
Clients Can Drive You To…
I ran out of thinset at about 4:15 yesterday afternoon while laying floor tile. The customer had left me a tub, but it was dried out. I debated on running to Depot to pick up another tub since I only had about 10 square feet left. I decided against it because I had a lot of diagnal cuts to make, so I decided to go in and finish it this morning.
I sent the customer a text about another facet of the job for Monday when I was at Depot. He called back and asked how the rest was going.
Client: “Did you tile under the cabinets?”
Me: “No. There isn’t enough tile for that. There is just enough to do the kitchen running up to the cabinets.”
Client: “Did you tile up to the door?”
Me: “The entry door? No. You asked me to tile the kitchen.”
Client: “I was hoping you’d do it like apartment #5.”
Me: “I’ve never been in apartment #5.”
Client: “You haven’t? What were you in?”
Me: “Apartment 1.”
Client: “Apartment 1 isn’t like that at all.”
Me: “No kidding. We don’t have enough tile to do to the door. Where did you buy this stuff?”
Client: “Wow. Let’s see. I think it was on clearance at Lowes for 99 cents a tile.”
Me: “Frack me.”
As it turns out, I got lucky running out of the thinset. I would have finished off the kitchen and been done with it. With the little hallway and entryway getting tile, the diagnal cuts are now unnecessary. Not that it matters, Lowes no longer has the tile.
They call it clearance for a reason.
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