Zkribbler's House -- Watch it being built!

[Lancer]

Even if you were on site you couldn't tell where the posts they're making will go. It's all prep work for the house and circumference wall.

[Lancer]

Dolores is having fun and helping cristina put some 'Tina at the comp' pics up.

[cristina]

me at the computer...

[Zkribbler]

Ah, I know that seat well. From that spot, I watched over the Internet as Obama was sworn in as President.

[Solomwi]

Awesome, Tina . Lancer was entirely too slow with new pictures. Yes, I think I'm enjoying this probably almost as much as Zkrib. it helps not having to worry about any miscommunications showing up.

[FrostyBoy]

Who is paying for all this construction?

[Lancer]

Awesome, Tina . Lancer was entirely too slow with new pictures. Yes, I think I'm enjoying this probably almost as much as Zkrib. it helps not having to worry about any miscommunications showing up.

Heeey!

Tina will start work as a cook for the crew when she graduates college end of next month as a computer major. I can tell you, her skills are considerable. As I was teaching her how to take pics from the camera, put them on the comp then upload them to Poly, she was teaching me basic stuff about comp usage that I never knew. By the time I was done showing her how, she was faster than I've ever been, and looks really good typeing away a million miles an hour.

Zkrib, this gal is not just a cook. She brings a considerable skill...

[Dinner]

Wow, the house is really coming along, isn't it? Thanks for the pictures, Cristina.

[Zkribbler]

Who is paying for all this construction?

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Every week or two, I Mailgram money to my agent Theresa, who then pays the crew and pays for the materials.

Lancer --
I received the jigsaw. I'll get it over to LBC either tomorrow (Saturday) or Monday morning.

[Zkribbler]

Lancer -- What do you think of these ideas:

Handrail

Yesterday, I proposed a square handrail. Now that we're going to use poured cement, I now rounded handrails will be better. They're easier to grip and the corners won't get chipped off by stones in the waves. I'm guessing that bamboo can be used to form the curves.

Storeroom
I've been thinking about what to do with the 3m x 3m space between the laundryroom and the street. I don't recall any trees being there -- and we can work around them if there are -- but a permanent storeroom would be a good idea. We'll already have three cement-brick walls.

At first, I thought about doing something cheap: Pebble floor, wooden wall, neefa-leaf roof. But if we do concrete, then moisture won't get into any bags of cement, bugs won't get into any lumber, rain won't drip through the leaves, etc.

Cement floor; cement roof [low enough not to be seen from the street]. The cement-brick fourth wall will need an extra large door so that we can store the cement mixer, table saw, etc. inside.

I'd like good ventilation, because the breeze from my laundryroom will be exiting through the storeroom. We already have a band of decorative bricks on the basketball side, so we might was well continue that around.

If there are any trees, you've gotten really good at punching holes roofs for them.

[Lancer]

All sounds good. For the 3m x 3m storage room I'd wait until you get your permit done and walls up (with decorative block) because what happens inside those walls afterward...

Curved handrail sounds good to me, lets see what our mason, Sho, says. Today I'm busy but I'll talk to him about it before work on Monday.

Thanks on the jigsaw!

[DanS]

Be careful what you wish for

On an unrelated note, I'm applying for a job in American Samoa.

Sounds fun. Weather should be nice, but that's on the ass end of the Earth thousands of miles from civilization. You would be lucky to get dial-up internet speeds and a single TV or satellite TV station.

We would miss you, as you begin your monastic lifestyle.

[Zkribbler]

All sounds good. For the 3m x 3m storage room I'd wait until you get your permit done ...

Any sight of the building permit?
Any sight of Tito?

[Lancer]

Somethings up, I'll call you back.

[Zkribbler]