Wednesday, 1 September 2004
september to-do list
House:
That kitchen thing:
Remove two vertical sets of cabinet doors
Remove four strips of scrim
Invent switchplates for unorthodox outlet placement
Grout and caulk some gaps
Shape and place shoe moulding for wavy baseboards
Cut and prime and paint new shelf in south pantry
Last coat of paint on and hang pantry doors
Prime trim
Paint trim
Replace one set and the other of cabinet doors, adjusting hinges for tension and exact placements
Remount doors
Replace scrim
Rehang windowshade
Find microwave stand
Find kitchen rugs
Clean fans and store them
Fill gaps between brick and porch roof where the spiderwebs are full probably of mouse poop
Replace parking sticker in car
Empty, clean, and refill closets
Fall cleaning generally
Garden
Get lots of vegetable pulp and coffee grounds (ongoing)
That fence thing
Pluck bindweed (ongoing)
Eat lots of raspberries off the canes
Eat lots of tomatoes
Weedwhack
Take pots off porch columns
Stuff to look for
I bought a kitchen. I can't have anything else.
Except kitchen rugs and microwave stand.
Errands
Cobbler to reheel shoes (17th & Marion)
Burn and mail photo CDs
Kinwork and Lisaism
Taste of Colorado
"Vanity Fair" with Kal
Author reading with JJM
Feed & water the Marlowe kitty
Used bookstore crawl with Kal
MNS with JJM and JPM
Reading:
David James Duncan, The Brothers K
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
Mary Gordon, The Rest of Life
Edna O'Brien, House of Splendid Isolation
José Saramago, History of the Siege of Lisbon
Charles Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, 1950-1952
Exercise
At least a little bit of calisthenics at home? Please?
Bike 8 miles nearly every weekday
Swim at least 7K a week