Ummm, yes, I would do a disservice if I didn’t want to rip someone’s heart out < wink > I am sorry but it’s been about 5 hours or so and God I need a cig, this has to be the hardest feeling I have ever had.
I haven’t gone without with a smoke for more than 2 hours in my 18 years of smoking…and I am doing what I can to deal with this and it’s fuckin hard, I want a cig so freaking bad yet I am dealing with it…
Dude, this sucks, and I am sorry I am making it about me but smoking is such about the person that quits…so please pardon me.I am sitting here and I want to kick some butt. I hate knowing that there are so many people out there that don’t love me…and it’s freakin hard to deal with. All I freakin want is to gret rid of this idea that I am a tripppy chick and shit. Then I am also so one that is freakin out on life.
techchick, in my limited experience dealing with people trying to quit, I’ve always noticed that it seems easier if there’s a target out there to aim all that hostility at. So if there’s anything I or any fellow doper can do to piss you off and give you a reason to rip some balls off, please let us know.
I wish you luck. I get grouchy if I don’t have my morning coffee, I can’t imagine kicking butts.
Eh Pkubed…your wonderful charm is enough for me except my hands smell like crap. Been almost 6 hours and I haven’t smoked…but I fell on one of my computers…but this idea of being a non-smoker is not a pleasant thing…I need to kick some ass…I not a happy woman.
So my friend if you think you can be normal, do it but your techchick friend is not normal and she wants a freakin cig so bad right now…OH MAAAAAN.
I know that doesn’t help much with the current situation, since I don’t expect you want to sink any more money into the house you are selling than you absolutely have to, but it is definitely a suggestion for the next house you get. Even if you didn’t have a fear of heights, the simple labor-saving factor of these gutters makes them worth mentioning.
I am a horrible height pansy. During the first seven years of my marriage, my husband was in the Navy, which meant he was gone a lot, and I had to handle all the house chores. We lived in a ranch house, and I couldn’t even deal with that when it came to cleaning the gutters, which was needed about twice a year since we had many big trees near the house which spewed all sorts of detritus onto the roof. I could climb up the ladder to the point where my head was just above the roof line, but I might as well have literally had the glass ceiling above me because I could not bring myself to climb higher. So I had to clean out the gutters as far as I could reach, move the ladder and repeat. Terribly painful, and I know the neighbors thought I was nuts.
Then our gutters started to sag and leak and I did a little research. Leaf-Guard gutters cost about 1.5 times what regular ones do, but they have a baked-on enamel finish guaranteed for 20 years and they screw into the fascia of the house instead of being nailed. So they stay nice and tight and even for a looong time. And if they ever get clogged, the company that puts them in will come and clean them out for you! Ours never clogged, and when we sold that house, I made sure the agent put the gutters on her list of selling points for the house, along with a few other big improvements we made. Our house was on the market a total of 4 days when someone made an offer.
The house we are in now will get the same gutters when the time comes. The garage will probably need it in the next year or two, due to bad technique on the part of the installers.
You are all going about this clean the gutter thing wrong, wrong wrong.
Cut down the tree and have it [this is key here,so friggin’ pay attention] *land on your roof * thereby having the insurance pay for new roof, paint, and brandspanking new gutters with gutter guards.
[/Homer Simpson’s brain]
Take some of that money you earn and do one of the following;
Make up a garden hose extension rig like others have suggested.
Hire someone else to do it.
Rent a motorized scissor lift (if you live on level ground).
This is what money is for. It allows you to avoid doing things you don’t want to do. That is why we go to work every day. Your wife and little girl would heartily approve of daddy not doing the swan dive cum swan song off of the old roof beam.
My father and my friend’s father both nearly killed themselves doing work on their houses that they could easily have afforded to pay others to do. My friend’s father managed to severely reduce the quality of his few remaining years of life. My own father was d@mned lucky to have my junior high school friend’s mom there to nurse his worthless, cheapskate hide back to health.
Anyway you cut it, lay down the cracker and buy a less hazardous solution to the problem. Methinks the boards would be more than a little teed off to learn that you had busted your highly literate skull in order to save a few sheckles.
I’m with Zenster on this, Scylla: there’s always someone you can pay; pay 'em.
Since we moved into our present residence three years ago, I’ve cleaned my back gutters once. This is because the old house was a one-story house with the basement at ground level in back, and the new one is a two-story house with the basement at ground level in back. So now I’m three stories above the ground instead of two, while cleaning the back gutters.
After doing that just once, and feeling how easy it would be for the angle of the roof to cause me to lose my balance (perhaps fatally, perhaps quadriplegically) I decided to start paying someone else to do it. I pay 'em $75 each spring and fall, and they’re worth every penny.
But the gutter screens look like a good idea, too. After all, if nobody has to go up there twice a year, that’s a winner AFAIAC.
