The day is done
Comments Off on The day is done and so am i. am totally exhausted from the trip to calcis and back. napped a bit earlier and then back up for a bit now. gonna call it one shortly.
trip down and back was not bad. visit was reasonable. I was a bit out of sorts. still am. not sure I am not coming down with something. will see it the symptoms progress or if they are just from the perfume that stunk up several isles in winn-dixie in pell city. Tried to get the stuff and out but kept running into her trail of stink. I would rather smell cigarettes then stinkum like that.
got some better as the day progressed but outside was far better than inside.
trip back was straight through. no stops other than the ones mandated by the state and federal road department. got here just at dark. unloaded the van and I shortly called it a nap.
from the vantage point of time it looks to me that the irritability that I experienced early on at calcis may well have been triggered by the exposure. that and the road we usually take was closed which screwed up my routine and made me think about the drive. I got pissed several times in the latter section of the trip which i didn't in the first. then the exhaustion hitting about 4 hours later. all of that falls into the standard pattern. wish I could learn to catch it before it controls me. don't know what i would do then but forewarned is forearmed or some such. unfortunately hindsight is 20-20 is the bit of truth today.
I did manage to keep from being a total ass and just went and sat in the van when I got pissed. that was only 3 or 4 times. Was warmer in the van than in the house anyway. didn't go into the trailer. has been a year now but after that last time in the summer and my reaction to the chemicals i ain't taking a chance for a while longer.
will try to get the ashley going today (tis after one so monday already). got to refigure the flue mounting again. not comfortable with what I have right now. think i need to remove the top side pieces and replace with the erector set type and bolt 3 pieces in a right triangle and plate with 5 v tin. cut a 8 inch hole for the single wall flue to go through and put the triple wall on top. should be a stable enough platform to support the 6 feet of triple wall. flange on the fiberglas with wood backing around the sides, plenty of caulk around all seams and fire the sucker up.
guess I will sleep on it and try for the morning.
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