Well, what DID you get done last week?

AndyD

I also fixed a door and its strikeplate problem for a daughter in London.
What could have been a straightforward 5 minute job as usual blossomed:

Sliding door is for an outside cupboard(!) but under cover behind parking spaces.
There are five, one for each flat, only one original door working, one changed with hinges and hasp padlock;
anyway daughter had found a workman changing clothes inside her cupboard so...

Vintage clawbolt lock from 1973, keys lost by previous owners. I bought an exact 3 lever replacement for £50, nevertheless happy day.

Cleaned the wheels and runner with wd40. Smooth.
Fitted new expanding clawbolt lock easily.

And then what I'd expected,
a pretty stunning misalignment due to the frame having been bumped by a car.
"Got any tools?"

Had to chisel out (blunt vintage & using an antique club hammer) the wooden frame to fit strike plate half an inch higher; file (mini craft set) the inner rectangular hole of the strike plate to widen the tolerance for the expanding lock; and saw (junior hacksaw) the old metal strike plate and use the two parts to raise the new brass one from the frame.

Two and a half hours of expert improvisations (faffing about )

Copper

@Mik said in Well, what DID you get done last week?:

Fixed strikeplate problem on back door

@AndyD said in Well, what DID you get done last week?:

I also fixed a door and its strikeplate problem for a daughter in London.

I fixed a 2 doors and strike plate too

It must be the dry weather

Jolly

I rewired a ceiling fan light switch.
Split some firewood.
Stayed one night in the hospital with my FIL.
Shot a polecat.
Worked 24 hours at my PRN job.
Worked on the Kubota.
Cleaned in the shop and chunked some junk.
Made it to Greek class Wednesday night.
Delivered Girl Scout cookies
Hauled some logs out of the side yard with the tractor.

Things I need to do:

Replace the bearings in my hipper discs.
Weld a bracket on my rolling cultivators.
Stain and finish two shelving units.
Turn over the raised beds.
Plant two more mayhaws, at least one more apple and a plum.
Build a grape trellis.
Rebuild part of the backyard picket fence.

After it warms up a bit, I need to ...

Replace some fascia board on the back of the house.
Paint the trimwork.
Replace and adjust the belts on my tiller.
Clean out the boat.
Fix a hole in the roof of the tractor shed.
Change the fluids and filters on the tractor.
Paint the back bathroom.
Put a new scope on my best .22 rifle and sight it in.

Give me a few mnutes and I'll think of another twenty things. Retirement is about to kill me...

Doctor Phibes

I sent and received a lot of emails. I should work for the government.

Axtremus

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/24/musk-email-government-confusion/

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Horace

Well, that was a face plant.

LuFins Dad

Assembled Legos with Finley
Played Dino Ranchers with Finley
Worked with Lucas on his Graduate Studies plan.
3a) Sent tuition payment
3b) Made interest payment on his loans
Date night with Karla
Started setting up Karla’s painting room (Lucas is moving to the en-suite downstairs, Finley is moving into Lucas’ old room, Finley’s room is becoming Karla’s painting studio).

Should I talk about work?

Aqua Letifer

Went record hunting with the family around Fells Point. Got some great stuff.
Taught kiddo how to work a record. (She did all the steps this time around.)
Got Mexican with a family who had the kiddo over for her first sleepover. Success. But our friends were worn out. (Our daughter has no setting between "off" and "high." None.)
Read Hiawatha and a couple Iain McGilchrist articles.
Spoke to my folks on FaceTime so they could say hi to the grandkid.
Wrote a poem in dróttkvætt. Did a couple blackout ones just for fun.
Did some birding out by a nearby nature sanctuary.
Hosted another writing seminar.

LuFins Dad

@Aqua-Letifer said in [Well, what DID you get done last week?](Our daughter has no setting between "off" and "high." None.)

I will confirm this assessment, but she is still wonderful. And I mean that literally. The girl is full of wonder.

Aqua Letifer

@LuFins-Dad said in Well, what DID you get done last week?:

@Aqua-Letifer said in [Well, what DID you get done last week?](Our daughter has no setting between "off" and "high." None.)

I will confirm this assessment, but she is still wonderful. And I mean that literally. The girl is full of wonder.

Thanks, man, that's very kind of you to say!

We really lucked out in a lot of ways. She's the kind of kid that just makes people smile. Which, thank God for that.

LuFins Dad

@Aqua-Letifer said in Well, what DID you get done last week?:

@LuFins-Dad said in Well, what DID you get done last week?:

@Aqua-Letifer said in [Well, what DID you get done last week?](Our daughter has no setting between "off" and "high." None.)

I will confirm this assessment, but she is still wonderful. And I mean that literally. The girl is full of wonder.

Thanks, man, that's very kind of you to say!

We really lucked out in a lot of ways. She's the kind of kid that just makes people smile. Which, thank God for that.

There’s nature and nurture in that. She’s a wonderful girl, and her parents have helped nurture that…

Aqua Letifer

I wonder how much of each, though. A good portion of the time I lament the fact that she's absolutely going to grow up to be the kid with "those WEIRD parents." Inadvertent though it may be, we're not going to make it easy on her in high school, that's for sure.

Klaus

Jerked off 5 times in a single day.

Jolly

Girlfriend left?

Klaus

No. Just because I can.

jon-nyc

lol

Mik

@Klaus said in Well, what DID you get done last week?:

No. Just because I can.

LuFins Dad

@Klaus said in Well, what DID you get done last week?:

Jerked off 5 times in a single day.

Wow, you were even more excited about the Cobra Kai finale than I was!

The New Coffee Room

Well, what DID you get done last week?