Currently Reading: Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World by Haruki Murakami
It has NOT been the best of weekends. Oh don't get me wrong, I've had plenty of weekends that were worse and I was probably warned that a bad moon was rising but that's hardly any consolation when you're having a bad weekend.
Saturday was when the warning came I think. CC and I were heading over to the Farmer's Market to do some shopping when she happened to notice there was a turtle trying to cross the road. She told me we had to go help it before it got squished so I turned around and she got out and put him in the grass. See? Good deed for the day right? No, actually that was probably a warning. Turtle crosses road, that means "Hope you got your shell on cause you're gonna need it."
CC got the letter from INS that she'd been worried about. Prepare to roll your eyes. INS pretty much wants a fresh, updated copy of EVERYTHING. Keep in mind that if they'd actually moved on this thing when they were supposed to, all the paperwork would have been accurate but now, over a year later, everything moved to California, they want us to re-submit all the forms and supporting documentation that we already sent in. Oh yes, it's the start of a great weekend :-)
Saturday night, or rather very EARLY Sunday morning I'm back in the bathroom sick again. I have NO idea what it was. CC said I was sweating pretty bad, which I sort of remember. What I remember most was the abdominal cramps. It was like someone hit me in the gut or something. The weird thing is that I was fine after an hour or so. You probably never would have known anything was wrong. See? Right there, another sign :-)
Well today I finally got a chance to work on that frame for the Japanese print over the fireplace. Oh MAN did Murphy's Law kick in. Seriously, if it could have gone wrong, it did. Well no, actually the cutting of the wood went just fine. So did the painting. The problems started when I attempted to join the wood together. I had picked up some corner pieces, little L's with screws, to do the job only to find out that the screws were too big. If I put them in, they split the wood. Ok, scratch idea # 1.
Next idea was to use some nails and corner brackets but, again, same problem. Then I tried to just nail it together the old fashioned way. Same problem. Well no, not quite. I had nails that WOULD go in without splitting the frame but they weren't long enough to hold the thing together.
At that point I just stopped to think about it.
A little while later, we decided to approach the problem from a different angle. I cheated it :-)
Yes, it's true, I cheated the frame. Instead of making a proper picture frame what I'm doing is pretty much nailing the whole thing to the wall. It works like this. I mount the plexiglass to the wall the same way you'd mount a mirror. Behind that is the print. Now all I have to do is nail the wood over the plexiglass. Ok, granted the thing is fixed. It's not going to be moving any time soon and it'll be a chore to change the picture if we decide to go with something else. But it'll be up, and it'll look good and that's what we're aiming for right now :-)
Things have started to settle down now. I think maybe the worst is over. We were out walking the dogs and a crane flew over us. How weird is that? A crane. Not a goose. We saw a definite long, pointy bill. And just one. No other birds were even in the area. I figure, ok, turtle tells me to duck in the shell, crane is telling me it's ok to fly now. Let's hope so cause I'm not really in the mood for more examples of Murphy's Law :-)
Actually I may have been wrong about the crane. I just tried to publish this blog entry and it froze up. Then again, I was able to retrieve it this time. Better not take any chances.
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