The List: Late June Edition

[shadesofmauve]

I'm well out of the time-table set out by my last stickied to-do list, so it's time for To Do List 2: Son of To Do List.

Item 1: Write out 'to do' so many times you start reading it as 'toe-doe.'

Before Sunday
Riki-tiki-tavi the siding over the garage irrelevant
Take screws out of form boards before someone injures themselves and I feel stupid
Mail super secret package

Studio (things I can do on my own)
E-mail city inspection supervisor
- get opinion on untreated 2x6s in writing Yay!
- ask about water heater moving/changing to gas would require additional permit, yeeeuck.
Learn the L&I electrical permit requirements pronto Easy peasy, but I have to figure out whether I need new panel first.
Apply for L&I electrical permit
Research cost of new electrical panel (eek) because dad's afraid of this one (eek) $100, plus lots more if it's not GE (because breakers are separate and brand specific)
Research difference between 120v and 240v for heated floors same, get 240
Cut and fit cardboard baffles in roof bays while it's easy to get up there

House & Yarden
Bring crap to Goodwill
Move wood chips to cardboard-ed area
weed, cardboard, and mulch
Weed, cardboard, and mulch all the way around north rhody
Schedule PSE to pick up old freezer

General
Mailbox
- paint something.
- paint anything.
- seriously, Marvin the Martian has been waiting for his head and torso for a whole month
- it's just little Marvin legs
- you should feel awful
- think of the Martians
Ill Considered Fic Project
- Decide on Title
- Finish editing first chapter
- Publish first chapter
Draw one of the 42 things that's been floating in my head recently
- OCs from Star started!
- New Maybe Potential Actually Original Fantasy Thing characters
- New pathfinder character started!
- tiny dinosaurs in cat harnesses adorable!

Comments

[t-c-da.livejournal.com]

Write out 'to do' so many times you start reading it as 'toe-doe.'

Or, as they say around these parts "Tah Dah", replicating the trumpet blast that says "Here it IS!"

It's good to see your project moving off the drawing board into Real.Work at last...

difference between 120v and 240v for heated floors

Round here it's 240V or maybe 415V (3phase)...
In our last house (a newish subdivision) there were three phases running underground down the street with the houses fed off alternate phases. So when there was a fault in the yellow phase cable, every third house was without power which caused quite a few puzzled looks until we found out what had happened (the folks without power had neighbours on both sides with power - WTF??). I haven't studied the wiring in our current street - it's all overhead and mixed with cable TV lines...

[shadesofmauve]

... I never really feel like I get to the "Ta dah!" stage. Maybe this time!

That subdivision wiring sounds so weird! I've never heard of anything like that. Of course, I suppose I've never seen an outage caused by a single phase fault, either... but I think the only places that get 3 phase power here are industrial.

At least you could go next door for warmth/showers/entertainment? :P

We get two phases to our house, and then all the normal stuff is 120/single phase, and big things like the dryer and some heaters are 240. Heaters can be either one, though, and heated floors are usually 120 if they're small and 240 if they're bigger, and I'm right on the edge of the dividing line and could go either way.

Anyway, it's very exciting to really be doing it, and I'll continue to post pictures!

[westrider.livejournal.com]

This to-do list is so big I thought it was Seanan McGuire's at first :)

[shadesofmauve]

Heheh, I'm nowhere near that productive. Anyway, a lot of the stuff at the end -- everything not directly related to house and yard -- is fluff that has no consequences if I don't finish it. I want it on there so if I DO finish it, I can get the satisfaction of crossing it off. :D

[westrider.livejournal.com]

It's good to have some easy stuff on there. I actually read somewhere a recommendation to do some of that retroactively: Go back at the end of the day and add some things that weren't on your list but you got done anyhow, just so you can cross them off.

You can cross off at least two more now, too :)

[shadesofmauve]

I do that! I've always put stuff on just for the pleasure of crossing it off. :D

And YES, I crossed off that first chapter. Gotta do something while I'm not allowed to move woodchips! YAY!