{"id":178,"date":"2014-08-24T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puuikibeach.com\/chamberofchaos\/?p=178"},"modified":"2014-08-26T19:15:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T05:15:06","slug":"day-31-slow-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"DAY THIRTY-ONE: Slow Going"},"content":{"rendered":"

Little visible progress toward anything today despite hours spent on caulking and patching. I more or less finished the necessary pre-painting work in the main bedroom and the kitchen and I started on the bathroom. I was not able to mark very many things off my weekend list. I find it frustrating to leave projects half finished.<\/p>\n

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List: 24 August 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I cannot cross “bathroom” off the list because I did not finish. I did not finish because I encountered more significant and extensive water damage and wood rot than I was expecting. I knew there would be some, but… there was more than “some”:<\/p>\n

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Bathroom Wall Moisture Damage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ll probably try to patch it as best I can with plaster and then glop it up with silicone caulk and hope it holds up for a while. I also discovered that a significant portion of the kitchen countertop is rotted out from underneath. There’s only a thin layer of fake granite-style linoleum giving the appearance of a solid surface. Realistically, both the kitchen and the bathroom need to be completely torn out and rebuilt, with, I am sure, considerable structural repair necessary beneath the floors and behind the walls. At present, however, I lack the requisite tens of thousands of dollars to undertake such a project.<\/p>\n

So what did I accomplish this weekend toward my goals? Well, the house shows very little progress toward being “for sale” ready. I managed no decluttering, so there’s not even room to walk into at least two of the rooms. I undertook no exercise; well, no exercise beyond stooping and stretching and crawling around on the floor while working on house projects. Other than a couple of these blog posts I did no writing. I got caught up on my “photo a day” project \u2013 I’ve been posting daily toy photos on the iPernity photo hosting site for about two-hundred days straight now. Well, I’ve been taking <\/em>daily photos anyway; recently I’ve not had the time or energy to post the photos on a daily basis, and I end up playing catch-up on the weekends. The photos have for the most part been rushed and are not at all creative or clever. I hope to have the time, space, and enthusiasm to devote more energy to photography here at some point. I don’t know when that point will be.<\/p>\n

Next weekend is a three-day break from work, Saturday\/Sunday\/Monday, and I hope to get more accomplished than I did this weekend. I look around from where I’m sitting and I feel overwhelmed. I don’t know what to do that will make a difference. I’m not sure what “difference” I am hoping to make in the first place, I suppose is part of the problem.<\/p>\n

As a reminder to myself, here’s the goal list I posted last week<\/a>:<\/p>\n