Thursday, 1 July 2004

july to-do list

House:

  • Paint pantry doors
  • Make new shoe and floor moulding
  • Remove scrim from cabinets
  • Prime kitchen trim
  • Paint kitchen trim
  • Prime kitchen walls
  • Paint kitchen walls
  • Cut tile for and apply it to west and other walls
  • Grout tile
  • Clean downstairs fridge

    Garden

  • Get lots of vegetable pulp and coffee grounds (ongoing)
  • Pressure-clean north fence
  • Stain north fence
  • Pressure-clean other fence
  • Stain other fence
  • Oil patio furniture
  • Begin to fill in slope with any remaining dirt
  • Build better trough for bishop's weed
  • Pluck bindweed (ongoing)
  • Plant more spinach

    Errands

  • Cardboard to recycling
  • Target: Supersoaker watergun, for squirrels
  • Home Despot: 50' hose, hose attachment
  • African Grey: buddy seed, another harness (ha!)
  • Costco: groceries
  • Wild Bird Center: bird seed
  • Petsmart: nutriberries

    Stuff to look for

  • Blind and W.C. sign for watercloset (since January 2004)
  • Rugs for kitchen floor
  • White unscented tapers for candelabra (for a long time)
  • New glass "art" for front door (since May 2000)

    Kinwork and Lisaism

  • Family reunion
  • Annika's first birthday party

    Reading:

  • Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
  • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote
  • David James Duncan, The Brothers K
  • William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
  • Henry James, Portrait of a Lady
  • José Saramago, History of the Siege of Lisbon
  • Will Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner
  • Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (audio)
  • Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

    Exercise

  • At least a little bit of calisthenics at home? Please?
  • Bike 8 miles nearly every weekday
  • Swim at least 7K a week

    07:07

    • just bike

    Two 3.6-mile city rides. I was going to swim after work but I realized as I put on my backpack that I didn't have my keys. I had left them in the outside of the back door, very clever and secure, so I couldn't lock my bike. I might have gone out afterward, but what the hell, I didn't.

    21:09

    stocking up for the weekend

    I wouldn't leave my bike unlocked outside the gym for an hour's swim, but I'd leave it in the vestibule of the library while I stocked up for the weekend. The Portrait of a Lady is going well but this is a holiday: Lois Lowry's Messenger, which includes characters from The Giver and Gathering Blue, and I wonder if I remember the latter enough; William Styron's Confessions of Nat Turner; and Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men. And yes, Haitch, one day I will read All the President's Men too.

    21:09