Studio Windows?
Wednesday, October 4th, 2023 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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82F and overcast this afternoon with gusts of wind. The weather is finally changing today. They're predicting a bit of rain overnight, and then no more 80s! Actually, starting Friday, it's 60sF as far as the eye can see!
I slept in past noon today. Didn't feel any real pressure to get up. It's just a Wednesday, waiting for glazing to dry.
Some things from Wallgreens were delivered. Dry cat food and Ibuprofin.
I bought a huge bottle of Ibuprofin for the car, a year ago, and it's finally done.
Stayed overcast all day.
It started raining a bit just as I was driving home... and it's windy out there.
72F tomorrow, and then 60s from there on out!
We were already there for a couple weeks in September!
I don't know why every month has to start with a four day heat spike 20 degrees above what's seasonal!
September started with 90sF... October started with 80sF... it's bullshit!
I've been cranky all day, because it was still 82 today... and also I just want this god damn storm window project done!
Between the eternity that it takes for the glaze to set, and Glasshopper shorting me a pane of glass last week... this damn project is taking twice as long as the hatch door!
I guess it doesn't help that I'm having to make two of these damn things!
Dad used to talk all the time, about the fact that the living room window by his chair was missing a storm.
It was an issue for years, but I didn't know what to do about it... becasue I didn't think I could even make a storm window myself... much less one that matched the existing one!
I didn't even dream of making two damn storm windows!
Even after the other storm window fell out and broke this summer, I had no idea what I was gonna do about it... because the damn windows are HUGE!
The only reason I took this on is because; 1) I was forced to redo the hatch door, which made me finally match the old blue trim paint on the house, and I had half a gallon left over.
And; 2) I finally came up with a plexiglass storm design that I thought would be quick and easy.
So I got started on it, but didn't realize that plexiglass is prohibitively expensive until I already had the frames together!
I feel like Dad's ghost deliberately pushed that storm out and broke it back in June, knowing it would force me to do all of this.
And maybe he was right to do it, because that window without a storm really did need to be dealt with, and I would've ignored it for another year.
But the top pane of glass on that old storm did survive.
And it just so happens that one of the sash windows in Dad's room is missing it's glass... because it broke at some point in the past.
And I measured tonight... and it does look like the glass from the old storm will fit in the sash of Dad's room!
So... maybe Dad's ghost was trying to get me to fix that too!
Unfortunately, to do that fix, I'll need to disassemble the whole sash window, to get it out... because it's the top sash.
So... it's gonna be kind of an ass pain!
And his bedroom also needs a storm on the other window.
So... when the hell am I gonna do those windows? I guess I could work on them down in the basement over the winter.
We'll call it part of the studio project.
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