Wallboard in the Bath

Wall board is in. Going green. Better if I replaced the wallboard. Not all that hard with new board. Now for the fun of mudding the board.

Go Spartans

Great game against Tennessee today.  Of course, you gotta love Butler.

Earth Hour

I guess I'm just too far right and have spent too much time doing things environmental to get caught up in the Earth Day or Earth Hour feel good, enviro stuff.  My favorite eldest child put out a Facebook request for all her followers to turn out the lights for Earth hour.  I turned on extra lights between 8:30 and 9:30. 

Unlike most of the left, I don't have the arrogance to believe I can change the climate.

More Bath Remodeling

Problems encountered
1.  The premolded 34" shower wall is really 36" and extends into the drywall on the perpendicular wall face.  My solution was to cut the overhang from the drywall.  I'll install the wall then cover with a small strip of drywall and the metal corner edge

I decided it would be easier and look better if I didn't try to cut mounted drywall and patch it.  The drywall on the back wall was removed.

The rear of the pan was 1/8" inch too far back and the wall didn't fit into the mounting slots on the pan.  A bit of removing subflooring and moving the pan solved that.  Took about an hour to figure that out.
The shower  faucet is nice.  Just takes a while to figure out the set up. 

Shower surround

Partially installed but not with caulking. The back piece was loads of fun for two old folks to get up the stairs.

More Bathroom Plumbing

Delta R10000 faucet, CPVC piping.

Bathroom Plumbing

Needed to do some additional cutting to get the drain to fit. Then replumbed the drain piping. Not much of a job, but I'm slow. The empty hole is where the tub drain was located.

Shower base going in

Stirling (Koehler) 60"x34" shower going in. The base is a very tight fit. More drywall gets removed. Can only find these in center drain. Took a couple cuts to get the drain opening in the subfloor big enough. Next step will be do rough in the plumbing.

Bathroom, a bit more progress.

Old Tub out.

Redoing the batchroom

Lot's of fun just cutting out the old one. A bit more stuck under the drywall than I thought.

Notice the really professional shower head attachment.

None of his business

Now the lord, high Obama is going to fix the BCS What absolute arrogance.

Upgrading Computers

Bought computers to upgrade what we had. Came with Vista and a free upgrade to Win7. Vista isn't great. W7 seems to be better. They still did a fine job of renaming everything. Probably would have been better if I had stayed with XP

Follow Haskall

Sure looks like the government is doing its best to cover up flight 253.

Haskell, sure sounds like he has them running.

Good Job Brownie was better

This thing gets stranger as it goes along. Amsterdam has the toughest security around, they missed him. However Somolia caught one trying the same thing. So Somolia is better than Denmark.

Both kick our buts. Nepalitano says everything worked, well, except the part about the guy in a plane with a bomb over Detroit or Windsor. His Dad turned him in, but we ignored it. And, oh, by the way, seems like he should have been detained in Yemen because his visa had expired.

However, Janet and the gov had a solution, go after bloggers who might embarrass the administration.

US Apologies are needed for these

Each time the Liberal-in-chief goes out to apologize for the US to Europe, he should consider these:

66,000 graves of American Servicemen in France
$288,000,000 cost of WWII for US
$115.3 Billion (cost adjusted) for the Marshall Plan ($12.7 Billion actual)
~$20 trillion for keeping the Soviet Union out of Europe after WWII

The US spent lives and treasure in a war that an inept France and England allowed to happen. We then spent over 40 years making sure they were not part of the USSR.

What we have to apologize for is saving a bunch of European ingrates.

Let's hope hopes are fading

The best hope is that no deal is struck at Copenhagen. I'm sure as "developing nations" China and India would like to see the developed west pass out money while committing economic suicide. The rest are there to see how much free money they can get.

I never could quite understand why liberals want to commit economic suicide.

Justice

I'm on the fence concerning capital punishment. But in Muhammad's case, it was justified. I'm glad Kaine didn't follow his inclinations and apply clemency. Time to forget about this monster.

Richmond Area Murders

The Richmond Times Dispatch put up a database with area murders. 167 out of 232 were by gunshot over the past 3 years.

And you believe they are going to soak the rich

Politico says that there are 237 millionaires in the Congress. Seems that most of the wealthier ones are Democrats. Remember, the Dems are the folks who are out to get those evil millionaires. And folks believe that a bunch of millionaires are (a) going to contribute heavily to a party that is going to get into their pockets and (b) are going to vote to decrease their wealth.

A record?

It seems that Mr. Owens, NY-23 Democrat may have set a record in renegging on campaign promises. He was pretty much against the House Health Care "reform" bill when it served to get him elected. On being sworn in he was all of a sudden for it. File under lying politician, lying Democrat or who calls his dog?