greatbear | Perfect weather weekend

Started digging into the door replacement project this weekend. Discovered the subfloor around/near the door was rotted as well as just plain water-damaged worse than I expected, but no big deal, with the old door out I could cut the area and replace a 7 by 1 1/2 foot section inside by the door. Add that to the shopping list, along with sealer, shims, construction adhesive, etc. Take inventory of the doors. Discover I am missing (through my own fault) the auxiliary casing. Shit. This is gonna be a setback, but, oh well, I gotta have it, so it gets added to the Homo Depot shopping list and off I go. Rounding up all the commonplace items was not a problem, but when I hit the order desk in the windows/doors department, the guy looked at me like I had snakes coming out of my ears when I asked for auxiliary casing. "Auxiliary what?" Andersen auxiliary casing. "What does it look like?" Vinyl-clad wooden strips, 1 3/8" square by 150" long. In Terratone. *keeps clicking at computer terminal* "Casing...?" Gaaah! Goddamn Andersen auxiliary casing!!!11 "I cant find it in our system. Here is the Andersen toll free number. Give them a call and find out what it is called and you'll probably have to order it." Hello? McFly? I'm trying to! *FUME* Storm out of store with what I managed to buy so far, cancel the project for this weekend and go to see Chicken Little Saturday evening. Monday after work I will head over to the Glen Burnie Homo Depot which caters a lot more to contractors and serious remodeler/builder and have far more knowledgable staff than the Columbia yuppie-infested outfit.

Spent the day today cleaning up the yard, Jeff and I gathered up the leaves and cleaned gutters and whatnot. I was still mad as hell that this perfect, summer-like day could not be spent getting my already-delayed project under way. Oh well. Live, learn and deal. It was perfect weather for doing what we were doing as well. It did not go to waste, and that felt good.

I tend to get very frustrated when I get stuck like this; where something gets held up via external forces or incompetence or some other reasons and I am stuck flying a holding pattern not knowing when things will resolve. I've been running into this a lot lately. I'm not getting any younger here. In the meantime, things sit around half finished or not even started, acting as mocking reminders. It's been making me more and more unwilling to take on the rather major sort of projects that I used to relish taking on.

In other news, my beard is getting huge again, I'm thinking of letting it go for a while longer just for kicks to see what it turns out to be. I've never let it grow much beyond the 2-3 inches it is currently.

My health has improved a lot as well, my energy is returning and my attitude is a lot better. I hope this continues.