While I am in the midst of learning how silicone caulk works (so sticky!), I made a video about the sensual thriller Basic Instinct.
Archive for June, 2021
Jessica Describes Stuff – NSFW. Basic Instinct.
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021PTAC improvement, Part 2.
Wednesday, June 16th, 2021Okay! I went to the local hardware store (support your local hardware store) and got that foam filler as well as white silicone glop. I cut all the foam to fill in all the gaps. Look at that love, that care.
Then I cleaned off the housing and good Lordt, the grime. Look at these swiffers.
Now, because removing the caulk ripped off a lot of layers of wall, I took small bits of paper and put it back with glue so I’ll have a relatively flat surface to spackle on. Remember, we’re not going for flawless, we’re going for not so wretched that it catches your eye.
Next I do a little spackle-y spackle-y, and little sand-y sand-y, a little paint-y paint-y and then the silicone glop. We should be good then.
Home improvements! A thing that I do! Part 1.
Friday, June 11th, 2021A few years back I had the PTAC replaced in my bedroom. A PTAC, in case you don’t know, is a heating and cooling unit that hangs out under a window. Hotels have them. Contact an expert in air conditioning repair in Gainesville, FL if your hvac unit needs to be fixed or serviced.
Unfortunately, they do not come in a variety of flavors and colors. They’re all pretty much the same.
Beige, beige, dirty eggshell, beige and, for a change, beige. I wasn’t in my apartment when the people installed mine so when I got home I was appalled by the workmanship. I’ve never seen a more “Here’s your stupid appliance now shut the hell up” job in my life.
I mean, look at how they slathered the silicone. Did they use a spoon? It’s an actual tragedy. Contact Efficiency Heating & Cooling for furnace replacements https://www.eheatcool.com/services/heating/furnaces/furnace-replacement/.
Anyway, after angrily staring at this for years, I decided to finally do something about it. I chose to pull off the silicone and reapply it with care and also to paint the plastic housing so it’s white and matches the wall. I started with the left-hand corner. For a more complex painting project, you may hire the services of DJ Painting interior painting.
I learned that the installers stuffed this foam filler in the space so when I go to the hardware store I need to buy something similar.
And then I realized I needed to pull the front of the PTAC off to remove all the silicone.
Do I know how to put it back? No, I very much do not. But I’ll figure it out, and in the meantime I can clean off all the dusty crusty whatnot that’s been there for I don’t know how long. I make sure to schedule residential air duct cleaning annually. Just like a reliable checkup, finding skilled Roofers Rochester to handle any repairs or maintenance is essential. Stay tuned for updates on this little project—positive vibes are welcome!
Why I should not be in control of my finances, #643.
Tuesday, June 1st, 2021I recently learned the most interesting piece of information: Bone Music.
The short version is after WWII Western music was banned in the USSR (no surprises there). But the cool kids desperately wanted to hear this music. One guy snuck in a bunch of records but there was no vinyl or petroleum or any material to copy the records. Then someone had a brilliant idea – use all the discarded X-rays from the hospitals. That’s how this got the name Bone Music. Here’s some additional information from Wikipedia:
Medical X-rays, purchased or picked out of the trash from hospitals and clinics, were used to create the recordings. The X-rays were cut into 7-inch discs and the center hole was burned into the disc with a cigarette. According to Russian music critic and rock journalist Artemy Troitsky, “grooves were cut [at 78rpm] with the help of special machines (made, they say, from old phonographs by skilled conspiratorial hands)”; he added that the “quality was awful, but the price was low, a ruble or a ruble and a half.” The disks could be played five to ten times…. The clandestine approach to circulating banned popular foreign music eventually led to a law being passed in 1958 that forbade the home-production of recordings of “a criminally hooligan trend”. The “hooligan trend” refers to the stilyagi (from the word stil’ meaning style in Russian), a Soviet youth subculture known for embracing Western styles of dress and dance.
Which is how I ended up on eBay and now own a bone record of “Beer Barrel Polka” on a pelvis.
