Jefke.com

wow, deader than, er, i dunno know what around here. you people really that pissy about having to log in to post comments? losers. fine i’ll turn it off, but i’m forwarding all the spam to all of you. really, i’ll do it.

notice that i’m not blaming myself for your lack of participation. yeah, that’s the new me. well the right now new me. i’m sure i’ll go back on that. but for now, that’s my stance.

so as sort of a late weekend recap, i’ll, recap the weekend.

Saturday we went to a baby shower, it wasn’t an offical ‘bring the husdband along’ baby shower, but i went to lend a hand with the capt so that natty could hang out with her friends a bit. ‘why not just keep the captain at home jefke and let her go solo? ” shut up, i’m sick of you and your constant questioning– the answer is well i dunno, i think natty wanted to show off the capt to her friends.  all in all it wasn’t that bad, the capt behaved well and i hung out in the kitchen talking to the guy whose wife threw the shower. yeah, i know–exciting shit huh.

Sunday we went to the maryland home and garden show for i think the 11th time. it’s the exact same thing everytime, i have no idea why i go so often. they seem to have one every 6 weeks or so, and it’s the same jed and bubba contractors with booths, the same miracle mop presentations and the same crappy food vendors. and yet i go back. I did have a 2 part mission this time, 1) to find a contractor for super patio, and 2) find a contractor to inject the bumpout to nowhere with foam insulation. i’d say i was mildily sucessful on those missions. For whatever reason all the patio vendors did seem at all to care if i wanted to know more info or not. they had brochures out and i guess that’s good enough of a sales pitch nowadays. this leads me to belive that the are a million people wanting patio’s and i’m gonna have a whole lotta fun finding some one to do this at a good price and to actually show up, and do the work and all that shit.  yes that’s right, i’m preemptively getting worked up about it. what of it??

the insulation mission was more amusing. there was one company that had a booth, and naturally it was the last booth on the last row of booths and we got there at like 4:55 and the thing was winding down. so in a rare display of boldness, i went right up and launched into my “so we have this chase/bump out that has not plywood or insulation behind the siding…blahblabhalbhalbalbhalblahb new homeowner sucker blalbhalbhalbh”. the guy was obivously tired after a long day of selling snake oil ot old people that need insulation. he sort of exhaustedly said

“wow, that seems like a bad idea, to put the pipe close to an uninsulated wall”
yes, it does sir. thanks for your analysis.

the guy let me yammer on a bit and then dropped the hammer on me–”you see our minimum job is 2k”. oh? i asked. “yes we’re set up with a whole crew that can come and do a whole house in a day.. hmm. ok. so what about the little guy. the guy actually said, “well, if the house isn’t too cold, and it’s only bad when the wind blows–well, maybe you can just get by with out doing anything.” i didn’t see that coming–he was talkign me out of coughing up the minimum job size. very odd. very odd indeed.  a bit phased, i thanked him and we walked away. i didn’t have a come back for that one.

There’s one other company in the bawlmer area that seems to do this retrofit foam insulation stuff, so i’ll call them, but i sorta suspect that they’ll give me the same story, which leaves this. i dunno how much i need but i think the 200 board feet (?) kit should git r done. Given that there is all sortsa crap in the the stupid space i’ll prolly need to use the extenstion tube method as described here (so you think the layout to jefke.com is bad…how do you like mr. foam?)

now given my various fun fililed adventures with foam insulation from the past….and those where just with cans…so you have to figure that a kit that basically contains a propane tank sized amount of foam, well, there’s a least a 60% chance that i’ll some how entomb myself like han solo in the shit. all this woudl have to wait until it warms up though, b/c the stuff works bestin 75+ degree weather. that’ll be one for the storybooks kids, me on a ladder 20ft high with a foam fountain. i should sell tickets.

totally unrelated, wvsr linked to this story yesterday–for some reason it’s very funny to me, maybe it’s the illustrations, maybe b/c the guy was in belgium i dunno. but anyway word to the wise, prolly not a good idea to read it while you’re eating lunch-especially rotissere chicken.