Thursday, 1 April 2004

April to-do list

House:

  • Map electric system in basement
  • Reroute gas to behind, instead of in front of, north kitchen wall (actually, just watch while others do this, and be ready with the dishsoap to check for leaks). Or pay someone to do it.
  • Receive and mount ventilation hood
  • Vent hood through attic and out roof
  • Paint doors and interiors of closets
  • Seal shelves with clear acrylic
  • Scrub kitchen ceiling, trim, walls
  • Prime kitchen ceiling, trim, walls
  • Paint kitchen ceiling, trim, walls
  • Receive and install new range
  • Research and select new refrigerator
  • Research tiles for backsplash
  • Refinish kitchen and back landing floors
  • Remain sane during all this

    Garden

  • Select plants to fill in the front garden
  • Take up groundcloth in north garden and plant with bishop's weed
  • Build frame for new bed
  • Get lots of vegetable pulp and coffee grounds
  • Plant spinach, lettuce, carrots, and beans in old bed
  • Restake edging
  • New edging in easement
  • Transplant some vinca to north easement

    Errands

  • Cardboard and new, different phone books to recycling
  • Plastic bags to recycling
  • Clothes shopping. Maybe more pants! I've been wearing a pair of pants I bought in July. Me! in pants! and I want more!
  • Aquarium back to vet
  • Home Depot: trellis for raspberries, pots for porch columns, edging, tomato cages, seeds for sunflower substitutes, clear rubber dots to place strategically against dings
  • Costco: detergent, butter, vitamins, Beano, paper cups
  • Lots of vegetable pulp and coffee grounds

    Stuff to look for

  • Curtain for watercloset (also W.C. sign and a wee shelfie thing) (since January 2004)
  • Rugs for kitchen
  • New glass "art" for front door (since May 2000)

    Kinwork and Lisaism

  • Margaret Atwood tonight
  • Koelbel library on vet trek
  • Book hotel for Aspen in June
  • Book flight for Tulsa in May
  • Send photograph to cousin for reunion

    Reading:

  • Richard Ellman, Ulysses on the Liffey
  • Don Gifford, Annotated Ulysses
  • Stuart Gilbert, James Joyce's Ulysses
  • At least 300 more pages of Ulysses
  • Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone
  • Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (audio)
  • In the queue, after Ulysses:
  • Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, for the first time since 1993 or maybe 1985
  • Tom Carson, Gilligan's Wake

    Exercise

  • At least a little bit of calisthenics at home? Please?
  • Bike to work 20 times or 150 miles

    06:06

    • bike

    Two 3.8-mile city rides.

    19:07