busy, not always productive
Nov. 26th, 2001 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eubSaturday,
got up in time to go to the E.Lib farmers' market for cider to make cyser (apple-honey wine, N.B. also requires honey).
swung by the East End Food Coop, but had forgotten to bring a container for bulk honey. wasn't sure they took credit, so passed up tempting impulse buy of a miso pack.
forgot to stop at Home Depot for bookend materials.
went grocery shopping, I think, it's all a blur.
mixed Sparkalloid (uncloudiness agent) and added to the two three-gallon carboys of cider.
discovered that the five-gallon glass carboy, when it has been balancing on its nose but gets tipped over onto a tile floor, does not break (n=1).
mixed chocolate-truffle goop in two flavors (one plain, one Kahlua) and left it to chill.
Later that afternoon,
went to Frick Park since it was so warm.
remembered to bring honey bucket, um, honey container, to EEFcoop.
remembered to go to Home Depot. got 25 "slimline clay bricks", the half-height jobs, and a can of spraypaint in each of the primary colors, thinking one for each spatial axis. bookends. the paint is mostly because the surface has some tooth to it that needs to be covered up.
stopped at Pep Boys for windshield wiper blade inserts; deferred installation until daylight hours.
formed chocolate goop into chocolate-goop wads. set it back to chill.
heated and skimmed honey, mixed with cider. O.G. 1.09
rolled chocolate-goop wads into chocolate-goop balls. found that if you don't have cornstarch on hand for this procedure and the grocery store has closed, cocoa powder will work fine. set them out to come to room temperature as the recipe assures me I had better do if I don't want my chocolate coating to craze and ooze.
discovered and deep-sixed a key hideout of food-moths, I think.
Sunday,
pitched yeast (Lalvin 71B-1122; only other packet on hand was Manchester ale...).
installed new wiper blades. the store's "which model number do I need for my car?" booklet is FULL of LIES. on my trip back to the car for the second load of the bricks, I brought a pruning shears and lopped off the excess length. the first one I wasn't thinking and took the wrong end; hope it stays in place without that retaining clip.
laid down a plastic sheet, set the bricks flat (blue-to-be side up), and sprayed.
oh. fuck. oh fuck fuck fuck. a foot of margin was not enough. there is a blue tint over a large area of the hardwood floor. this are going to be god-awful expensive bookends.
ended up mostly getting the blue off and leaving the varnish on by quick light swabbing with rubbing alcohol. phew. new rule: absolutely no spray-painting in the house.
it didn't work at all well on the bricks anyway.
went to the park again, since it's so nice again and the sun's out too this time.
hit Home Depot again. asked helpful if shifty-eyed employee about painting brick -- you want exterior latex. got some exterior latex, Satin Ultra Pure White. didn't even want to get into the whole coloring system; the manufacturer's booklet had strictly pastel foofy colors that I wasn't in the mood to deal with.
chopped and melted chocolate.
dipped exactly one truffle center before giving up. there is no earthly way to dip goop-balls this soft without them turning into swoopy chocolate sculptures. like this one here. put the rest back in the fridge.
went to dinner. Anne was in town, so got to catch up with her. frankly quite gratuitously introduced sucking chest wounds into an Exquisite-Corpse-style cartoon/caption/cartoon/caption game.
painted one sixth of the surface of the bricks Satin Ultra Pure White, and they're going to need a second coat, too.
spent about three times as long cleaning the paintbrush as I had using it -- but no, it wasn't the cleaning it. I'd bought some toxic paintbrush-cleaning solvent which by the exuberant variety of actual and potential ingredients listed I imagine they make by throwing in whatever's cheapest on the spot market that week, and it took paint off the brush no problem, but then there's that problem, what do you do with the stuff now? didn't want to pour it down the drain. decanted it into a plastic cup, watched that to see if it was melting, set it in a cardboard bowl to be ""sure"" (moral: if you don't trust your belt and you don't trust your suspenders, don't bother with belt-and-suspenders), and put it on the outdraft windowsill to avoid dealing with it. then the cup started spewing painty solvent like a shotgunned waterbed and I scooted to dump it down the drain after all. then wiped up the spots that had gotten away.
If I weren't dumb, I'd effectively have a lot more hours in the day. Or, if I'd found some of those disposable polyurethane-foam brushes.
got up in time to go to the E.Lib farmers' market for cider to make cyser (apple-honey wine, N.B. also requires honey).
swung by the East End Food Coop, but had forgotten to bring a container for bulk honey. wasn't sure they took credit, so passed up tempting impulse buy of a miso pack.
forgot to stop at Home Depot for bookend materials.
went grocery shopping, I think, it's all a blur.
mixed Sparkalloid (uncloudiness agent) and added to the two three-gallon carboys of cider.
discovered that the five-gallon glass carboy, when it has been balancing on its nose but gets tipped over onto a tile floor, does not break (n=1).
mixed chocolate-truffle goop in two flavors (one plain, one Kahlua) and left it to chill.
Later that afternoon,
went to Frick Park since it was so warm.
remembered to bring honey bucket, um, honey container, to EEFcoop.
remembered to go to Home Depot. got 25 "slimline clay bricks", the half-height jobs, and a can of spraypaint in each of the primary colors, thinking one for each spatial axis. bookends. the paint is mostly because the surface has some tooth to it that needs to be covered up.
stopped at Pep Boys for windshield wiper blade inserts; deferred installation until daylight hours.
formed chocolate goop into chocolate-goop wads. set it back to chill.
heated and skimmed honey, mixed with cider. O.G. 1.09
rolled chocolate-goop wads into chocolate-goop balls. found that if you don't have cornstarch on hand for this procedure and the grocery store has closed, cocoa powder will work fine. set them out to come to room temperature as the recipe assures me I had better do if I don't want my chocolate coating to craze and ooze.
discovered and deep-sixed a key hideout of food-moths, I think.
Sunday,
pitched yeast (Lalvin 71B-1122; only other packet on hand was Manchester ale...).
installed new wiper blades. the store's "which model number do I need for my car?" booklet is FULL of LIES. on my trip back to the car for the second load of the bricks, I brought a pruning shears and lopped off the excess length. the first one I wasn't thinking and took the wrong end; hope it stays in place without that retaining clip.
laid down a plastic sheet, set the bricks flat (blue-to-be side up), and sprayed.
oh. fuck. oh fuck fuck fuck. a foot of margin was not enough. there is a blue tint over a large area of the hardwood floor. this are going to be god-awful expensive bookends.
ended up mostly getting the blue off and leaving the varnish on by quick light swabbing with rubbing alcohol. phew. new rule: absolutely no spray-painting in the house.
it didn't work at all well on the bricks anyway.
went to the park again, since it's so nice again and the sun's out too this time.
hit Home Depot again. asked helpful if shifty-eyed employee about painting brick -- you want exterior latex. got some exterior latex, Satin Ultra Pure White. didn't even want to get into the whole coloring system; the manufacturer's booklet had strictly pastel foofy colors that I wasn't in the mood to deal with.
chopped and melted chocolate.
dipped exactly one truffle center before giving up. there is no earthly way to dip goop-balls this soft without them turning into swoopy chocolate sculptures. like this one here. put the rest back in the fridge.
went to dinner. Anne was in town, so got to catch up with her. frankly quite gratuitously introduced sucking chest wounds into an Exquisite-Corpse-style cartoon/caption/cartoon/caption game.
painted one sixth of the surface of the bricks Satin Ultra Pure White, and they're going to need a second coat, too.
spent about three times as long cleaning the paintbrush as I had using it -- but no, it wasn't the cleaning it. I'd bought some toxic paintbrush-cleaning solvent which by the exuberant variety of actual and potential ingredients listed I imagine they make by throwing in whatever's cheapest on the spot market that week, and it took paint off the brush no problem, but then there's that problem, what do you do with the stuff now? didn't want to pour it down the drain. decanted it into a plastic cup, watched that to see if it was melting, set it in a cardboard bowl to be ""sure"" (moral: if you don't trust your belt and you don't trust your suspenders, don't bother with belt-and-suspenders), and put it on the outdraft windowsill to avoid dealing with it. then the cup started spewing painty solvent like a shotgunned waterbed and I scooted to dump it down the drain after all. then wiped up the spots that had gotten away.
If I weren't dumb, I'd effectively have a lot more hours in the day. Or, if I'd found some of those disposable polyurethane-foam brushes.
