That's It! I'm Leaving! (Plus Spline)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I mean it! You won’t have Rue DeDay to kick around anymore! I’m taking my ball and going home!

Only, if I took my ball and went home, I’d still be hear and that would mean I wouldn’t be going anywhere. If I didn’t go anywhere, I’d just post away like nuthin’. So what I mean is, I’m leaving. Hey! That’s what I said: I’m leaving! Right there in the title. But I won’t be leaving until Saturday morning, so you still have all week to tell me how much you’re going to miss me so I’ll hurry right on back from the beach (not in my state, of course) and resume my regular posting. Or, if it’s the way you feel, you can post how relieved you are that I’m going to be gone. Of course as contrary as I am, this will just make me want to post more, so there!

In other news: Did you know spline (Spell Check doesn’t believe in the word “spline”.) comes in different sizes? Of course it does! Would you want to live in a world with Universal Spline? That way lies madness! Although it would be helpful when you went to the hardware store to get some new, unbroken screen and the spline you need to hold it into the screen frame. Then you just grab the bag of spline and you’re Jake. You wouldn’t have to compare sizes of spline and just guess because you didn’t stop to think that spline comes in several (at least three) different sizes and you really have no clue which size you need. The only thing I can tell you is to keep your receipt. That’s what I did. Now I can take the wrong sized spline back for my refund. I can do that because luckily I opened the right size spline package the first try. It wasn’t just luck, I prized some old spline out of the window and held it up to the spline packages and tried to see which size spline I was dealing with.

Oh, and when you repair your screens, along with the spline and the new screen, you’ll also need a spline tool. I had one of those already, so I didn’t need to get a new spline tool. A utility knife should also be on hand.

You know what’s also helpful for changing out a screen? Windows that tilt in for easy cleaning. Do I have windows that tilt in for easy cleaning? Ha! I wish I had windows that tilted in for easy cleaning. My windows go up (mostly) and they go down. No tilting for these windows. It took me the better part of three hours to figure out how these windows came apart and how the screens came out. (It took mere minutes to get them back together again. Which is a good thing. I’m not sure the Little Woman would be too pleased if the window didn’t go back together no matter how nice the screen looks.) I would have given up on the screens only right there at the beginning of the job, there were unforeseen complications. I was forced to see the job through to the end. Instead of a screen that would let bugs fly right into my bedroom, now we had easy ingress for midsize birds. Not anymore though. I fixed that screen good. Thanks to my friend, spline.

In other, other news: There’s a Cricket League up here where I live. At least there were two cricket teams. At least there were enough players for two cricket teams. It could have been Pick-Up Cricket for all I know. But they had on their white Cricket Suits and the funny bat and the wickets, so I’m guessing they were playing cricket. They could have just been random loons, really. I saw them in the park when I was going home with my new spline.

And I bet the cricketteers didn’t know diddly about spline.
-Rue.

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When I was a raw kid working in a hardware store I had a problem.

See, they guys who owned the store actually owned two, but as near as I can tell the second was pretty much there just for tax write-off purposes. I think. Anyway, I worked the second store 8:00 to 6:30 every saturday, and we averaged about 8 customers. And Saturday was the busy day. Therefore, the three of us had plenty of time on our hands so the owners put us to doing stuff like fixing busted lawnmowers and such.

Mostly, though, we fixed window screens. And screen doors. I’ve got lots and lots of experience with spline. And screen. Boy howdy, do I know spline and screen. I preferred working with aluminum screen, because the vinyl was a pain to keep lined up straight. I got good at it though.

Use a metal spline wheel. Those cheap plastic ones break too often. Just some advice from a former professional window screen fixer guy.

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I’m a cricketeer. AND I know about spline. Take that.

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Oh Unca Rue, PLEASE DON’T LEAVE US! ! ! !

And that’s all I’m going to say about that.

I can tell you all sorts of stuff about spline. Spline is evil, even if it does hold in the screens on the porch. Assuming you have screens. Or a porch, for that matter. I guess other screens have spline too, but the only spline I have expereince with is spline for porch screens. I king of like the word spline.

SPLINE SPLINE SPLINE.

Now I’m going to be wandering around saying spline all day.

SPLINE!

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I thought “spline” was Australian for “explain.”

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And when I’m not saying spline I’m going to learn how to properly spell “experience” and “kind”.

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I have no idea what spline is. That just goes to show that I’m not a manly guy. That’s good, because it would be all confusing if I were a manly guy, since I’m actually a feminine girl.

I need tea.

Hah! The superintendent was showing our apartment to someone yesterday, and when he opened the closet, the door fell off! I think that’s great. The super (doesn’t speak English) got mad at Mr. Lissar for answering potential tenant’s questions. Weird guy.

We’ll miss you, Rue!

All right. I’m not going to post again until I’ve had caffeine.

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Yep, I know all about spline too…I had to repair the screen door at my old house once.

I’ve never worked in a hardware store, but I love to wander around them. I LIKE to look at tools and stuff like that. I’m just weird that way. If I tell hubby I’m going to Lowes or Home Depot, he just rolls his eyes because he knows I’ll be gone for a long time. I won’t come home with much of anything, just what I originally went in for; but I look, and look, and look, and look…at everything.

Well, we went and took the daughter to the latest Harry Potter movie yesteday. :rolleyes: I didn’t want to go, but sometimes you just gotta suck it up and drive on. The kiddo enjoyed it, I thought it was long, and the hubby fell asleep during the movie.

Rue , we’re gonna miss you. Hurry back…we expect our MMP next week…on time.

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I still don’t know what spline is! Please splain better

And I’m still panting from dangergene’s description of his hair over in the other thread. Also, from the other thread, I wanted to compliment scout on her looks. Stern biddy indeed! You’re a right cutie-pie!

Now, on to the business at hand … Rue we’ll MISS YOU DESPERATELY!! Would you like me to write this every day, so you can print it out and read it each day of your vacation (not at the Ohio Beach. My daughter has been there and claims there is completely vertical slide. This I do not believe.)

This past weekend, we bagged 18 garden/lawn waste bags of unwanted foliage from the backyard. Ugly honeysuckle bushes? GONE. My yard is a Sight to Behold. I am only slightly sore, having helped in this operation only slightly. Mostly my that place between my thumb and pointy finger hurts from the rake, which I used to rake up matted grass from the week before.

I’m also sunburned from having placed an inadequate amount of sunscreen on my person for the three hours we spent at the pool on Saturday. Which was absolutely POLAR by the way. How my son played in it I have no idea. Daughter behaved sensibly like her mom and spent the pool time on the deck chair, reading. (“The Partly Cloudy Patriot” by Sarah Vowell, if anyone is interested. Me, not daughter. Daughter was reading Anne of Green Gables.)

No camels in the offing this week, but a trip to Old Kentucky Chocolates is. I am having to restrain myself from tagging along.

-Ellen. (chocolattie)

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…well we don’t have spline or screens or nuttin’!

But we do have a godawful drop many, many, many, many, many, indeed, many, many, MANY floors to the cold, hard concrete on the ground way down there!

Actually, it’s the tropics, so it’s more a hot, wet concrete, but that messes with the cliche. So anyway, puh-lease, be careful Mrs dangergene when you’re a leaning out that window to clean it, cos it REALLY doesn’t need cleaning more than once a year. Chinese New Year to be precise, but that was months ago, so the windows are a bit dirty again, but that doesn’t matter. Did I mention it’s a godawful drop?

I don’t like heights…

…and my hair is still sleek, black, and bears more than a jot of curl. asdo my manly sideburns! Woof!

Are we still even talking about that?

Goshdarn it’s hot, I think I’ll turn on the A/C now (it’s cold in Ozland, but they’re on the other side of the 'quator, so they don’t need A/C right now. Lucky ducks!). Maybe I shouldn’t be wearing this linen suit and sitting on the porch watching the workers hunt for that tiger out yonder by the water tanks! (not really, but we can invoke images of colonial Malaya can’t we?).

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Rue, when come back, bring MMPie. :smiley:

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Ooh, ooh, I forgot to make mention of windows in my previous post. I don’t like cleaning winders, especially my second floor winders, 'cause mine don’t tip out or in. So that means leaning out the windows. :eek:

I read about the newest in window technology this weekend. It seems there are SELF-CLEANING windows out there. Yes, you heard it here! They clean themselves. Apparently the windows are imbued with something or another that breaks the dirt down and when it rains they just wash clean. The water also goes down the window in sheets, so there isn’t any spotting. Now, if they would just do that on the insides everything would be jake. I neeeeeeeeeds me some of these type of winders, but I’m sure they cost a fortune. Besides that, the house is only a year old, so I can’t justify buying new windows anyway. :frowning:

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oh my, how rude of me! Mr Rue have mucho fun and don’t get sand in the sandwiches, cos it makes the cheese all gritty. much -crunch- munch

and Mrs Dangergene has just informed me she has a headache and a tummy ache. Methinks it’s off to bed with her!

night, night all.

-Gene-eaux!

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I’m still here…

Taters second floor windows and you’re all :eek: . I’m talking about leaning out the 13th floor windows!!! Now THAT’s :eek:

‘Specially when I catch Mrs Dangergene doing it, cos she’s not scared a nuttin’ which means she doesn’t stop to comtemplate the dark smear on the conrete should she inadvertantly lean out too far! JIKES!

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dangerene , Okay, your fear factor definitely outweighs mine…however, splat is still splat. See, I USED to be fearless…but I took one too many tumbles from high places and now I’m just a wee bit nervous about them.

I’m thinkin’ I’m just gonna hire someone to do my windows. There’s a guy that will do all of them, inside and out, for $85.00. That’s a steal, plus my windows are big and I’ve got a lot of them. (But I’d still rather have those fancy new high tech windows)

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My house has the tippy winders so cleaning them is much easier for Mr. Anachi. (I don’t do windows.) And, seeing as our house is all on one floor and wheelchair friendly to boot, he can stand right outside and squeegee away. Washin winders with anything besides a squeegee and winderwashin fluid is downright OC if ya ask me. So there. :smiley:

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I don’t have to know about spline because I’m a little princess who rents her apartment, so if something goes wrong or breaks, I just call maintenance, and go along with my happy little life. That’s one of the reasons I am in no rush to own my own house - since I am single (it’s a skill), if I owned my own house, I would have to take care of things when they broke - no one else to transfer responsibility to/get cranky at. But then again, I want a house so I can get a dog. I have two cats now, and two cats+dog in apartment=not enough space for all of us (plus violating the terms of my lease). I want a big dog sometimes, and that is definitely not going to work in an apartment. Then I remember that I would have to walk that big dog, and if something were to go wrong and he’d take off, I’d be a kite flying along behind him on the leash. So then I think of smaller dogs - not too small though, because some of them are overbred & need to be delivered by C-section, which is cruel to the animal. I just like dogs. And cats. Basically all animals. But not snakes. No snakes for Susan. I know that ruins the birthday gift plans for me, but you’ve got another 6 months to figure something else out.

There was a little semi-girly start earlier in the thread, but I’ll go full-out semi-girly here, just to get it out of the way. Well, not too girly - I cooked this weekend, which men do too, so not truly girly. I didn’t do anything truly girly this weekend - will have to look into that. Anyway, I made Macaroni & Cheese and Brownies this weekend. The Mac&Cheese was from a Weight Watchers cookbook, so that was fairly healthy. The brownies had an entire stick of butter in them, so they were not. It all balances out, truly. Then I made these breakfast in a cup things, which are rice, cheese, & eggs - and they are very convenient for my hectic life. Except my life isn’t hectic - I have breakfast every morning in front of cartoons on TV. Then tonight I’m making chocolate pudding, and tomorrow I’m making Black beans. Then the cleaners come Friday, and my kitchen gets to sparkle again. I clean, but they clean better.

Susan

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Are you coming to our beach (my guess is Panama City Beach or Myrtle Beach, but our beaches are better)?

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OK, two things:

  1. Ohio just got on my map for “places where it’s OK for me to move to 'cause they have cricket there.”

  2. Cricketers know all about “spline” because “spline” is what you call the part of the cricket bat that connects the handle to the, uh, bat part.

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Well, I’m not surprised you know about cricket kabbes. You live in the Land of Cricket, so you have to know. (There’s a test, right? And if you don’t pass your Cricket Test they send you off somewhere like France where you have to live with your shame.) But knowing about spline… well, that’s not really Top Secret Information. (It is kinda “Need To Know” so if you don’t need to know about spline, there’s no reason to clutter your pretty little head up with it Ellen.) So it’s not surprising at all you know about both cricket and spline. But those guys at the park here in Not-Cricket Land, I’ll just bet they don’t have a lot of spline experience. That’s all I’m saying.

And it’s a good thing I’m not saying anything to you face-to-face. This weekend we went to Sam’s Club and we bought stuff that was Off List. It wasn’t my fault. The Little Woman picked it out. It’s baked pita bread, so it’s all crispy, and it’s covered with garlic. Not just a little sprinkling of garlic, it’s a huge visible layer. It came in a tub the size of a hatbox and I’ve been eating on it all weekend. It’s a real good thing it was the boys’ dentist appointment today and not mine. The hygenist would be in pile on the floor from my engarlicated breath.