“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”
–Salvador Dali
Awww.
A 12-week-old macaque — abandoned by his mother — was rescued by an animal sanctuary in China. Spiritless and close to death, he developed a new lease on life after striking up a friendship with a pigeon. =read full story=
A quick search at Snopes turns up nothing on this, so the accuracy of the story stands unconfirmed. Is it real? I personally find the picture too cute to care.
Is the front of the staircase red or yellow? The Schroeder Stairs, also called Schouten’s Staircase, are an ambiguous figure that depicts two different staircases at the same time: one going up from right to left, the other turned upside-down. The Schroeder Stairs appear in M.C. Escher‘s works “Relativity” and “Convex and Concave”.
My cousin Will stopped by in mid-remodel for a quick twelve hour garage hang last night and through morning. He’s been on the road three weeks, starting with Burning Man. Made his way down to SoCal to see our grandparents and the rest of us, and is circling back today to see our cousin Erin up in San Francisco before heading back up to Portland to start work again on Monday. He’s a math teacher at Portland Community College.
We did a lot of catching up. Neither of us had much sleep. Here are some photos snapped quickly with the cell phone this morning.
His dad and my mom are brother and sister, and we share Great-grandmother Staley.
Are we there yet?
So here we are. September 12th. Had a few setbacks the last few days, including an electrical diversion, a head cold, the decision to do speakers in the soffit’s ceiling for surround sound, and a re-opened cut finger that required more stitches. This equated to a delayed drywall hang, wasting a couple days, which made for a frustrating weekend.
But it all worked out. The delay presented the opportunity to sidestep the need for me to get in there and participate in the drywall hang first-hand. My buddy/neighbor/electrician Roy just had Miguel paint his house, and Miguel was wide open this week. It so happens that Miguel did some work for me back in 2001, drywalling my garage and framing some storage space below the roof. He also painted my house in 2002. This relationship put him in a good enough mood to cut me a good deal on the complete drywall hang, mud, and tape, with a projected “ready for paint” day this Friday. He brought his wingman Lorenzo in, and they got started this morning. We’re on schedule.
I think we’re around Day 11 on the project, but we’ll just regroup and consider this Drywall Day 1. Here are some shots taken this afternoon showing the results of their full first day of hanging drywall. They rocked it out quick. I feel kinda guilty for spending the better part of day at the beach with the dogs. Actually, no I don’t.
Tomorrow’s patching. Then it’s time to break out the primer.
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. – A surfer rode a wave on his stomach to rescue a struggling dog that had been swept off a pier and into Lake Michigan by a wave. =read full story=
