What Have We Done!?! (What we have done)

Please to enjoy. S. Track 1:  Kishore Kumar and Asha Bhosle; Typewriter, Tip, Tip, Tip Track 2:  Jacques Cousteau Odyssey, episode 21 of 27, "A Sound of Dolphins." Track 3:  Belle and Sebastian; A Century of Elvis 

Content Warning: Frank discussions on finances and mental health One of the best lessons a friend and mentor (to whom I no longer speak) taught me as I began producing theater and eventually directing my own plays was that in the field of projects there is a firmly defined triangle of needs. This differs from Maslow's Hierarchy , which has its own key applications in the creation of art. This is Pick Two of sorts where no matter how hard you try, you can never attain the third choice. The real test of mastery here is giving oneself over to the realities of the underlying truth. To expect a task to be carried out quickly and with quality and then to decide that it can be achieved for lesser cost as well, is to unwittingly remove quality or efficiency from the process regardless of personal whim. So give yourself over to this truth, allow it to permeate your decision making and you'll reduce the number of rework back loops in your way. Of course when designing a house from the g...

(Something to listen to while you scroll) Having successfully floored the guestroom and raised floor in the bonus room using the levelling concrete, it was time to address the primary bedroom/bonus room space.                                                             We had already done the dance of having our bedroom initially in the bonus room only to have to move it into the primary when we had the drywall ceiling installed, now we needed to do the dance a few more times, finishing the bonus then moving everything into there while finishing the primary only to move everything back. It's not unlike one of those car park puzzle browser games where shuffling the cars back and forth in the exact right pattern frees you up to move on. Our particular batch of obstacles was just a picante mixture of the mundan...

On our last episode of Buckaroo Drywall, our heroes had fallen into darkness... Let's cut right to it cus, full disclosure, this blog is running about a month behind our actual lives and I want to rubber-band snap us all right to the present. *SNAP* With a bunch of holes in the house from necessary surgery, Brie used Nextdoor to find us a reputable, local contracting service. Brie has become fully obsessed with Nextdoor, a social media app, which though initially designed for people physically living near each other to make contact and communicate, quickly devolved into people with nothing better to do making a general fool of themselves publicly while they air neighborly complaints, post endless drivel like it's there own private journal, and general be the worst that humanity has to offer. Here's a choice description from Wikipedia, " Nextdoor has been criticized for enabling its users to  racially profile   people of color .   As a platform, it also has been accu...