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Holy crap it's Friday again already. Friday 148.

Where does the time go?


Might go see Black Panther this weekend. My favourite thing about going to the movies is sprinkling peanut butter M&Ms in my popcorn.

Football competition for the kids would have started again tomorrow, but all matches were cancelled due to the cold, so it not gonna be on the field at 8:45 in the morning
Training this evening has not been cancelled, but if it's not to windy that should be okay with just a few degrees below zero.

Not much planned for the weekend expect some family visits and watching the Olympics.

Today is the oncology follow up to tell us what stage she's at. No big/real weekend plans, but if the weather stays mild I might get in some cardio and sneak in an early morning trip to the cabin or something. I need to clean the damned gutters out, too, since we're in the early spring/rainy/monsoon season.

Is it your cabin?

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Originally posted by wotyzoid Is it your cabin?

Why? Do you want to seize it?

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Originally posted by Zoso Today is the oncology follow up to tell us what stage she's at. No big/real weekend plans, but if the weather stays mild I might get in some cardio and sneak in an early morning trip to the cabin or something. I need to clean the damned gutters out, too, since we're in the early spring/rainy/monsoon season.

Hoping for good news! That doesn't sound right does it? Hoping you caught it early is what I mean by that.

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Originally posted by wotyzoid Is it your cabin?

Yes, and no. My dad (with a little/occasional help from me and my younger brother) built it a few years ago on the back side of his parents' 70 acre cattle farm. When his dad got sick several years ago, they put the property into dad's and his sisters' names. Then, a few years after that, mom and dad bought out the sisters. Finally, a year or so ago, mom and dad signed the deed over to me and my brother. So, it's more of a "family cabin" than any one person's, but dad has, by far, the majority of the time/labor in it and all the material costs.

PS, please don't seize it.

How�s the chinking on it?

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Originally posted by Jon_Snow How�s the chinking on it?

Bwahahahahha. It has cedar shakes and "ship lap" cedar (I think) planks, so no chinking was necessary in the building of this cabin. However, for the sake of both posterity and racism, I think I will do a little chinking the next time I'm there.

Heading out to get drunk with work colleagues soon. I'm not a massive fan of the bars they tend to end up in, but it's good to show one's face at this kind of thing.

Tomorrow it's my girlfriend's birthday, so I'll be fending off the inevitable hangover with red wine and food.

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Originally posted by Silky Johnson Hoping for good news! That doesn't sound right does it? Hoping you caught it early is what I mean by that.

UPDATE: bone marrow biopsy results are still pending, but based on yesterday's PET scan, it's Stage 2. The spot on the adrenal gland was not cancer. The oncologist said if the bone marrow biopsy comes back "bad," which is rare, it will be Stage 3, and we'll have to approach it differently. Otherwise, chemo starts Tuesday at 8:30 AM. First one is 6 hours. Wonder if the hospital wi-fi blocks BitTorrent.

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Originally posted by Zoso Yes, and no. My dad (with a little/occasional help from me and my younger brother) built it a few years ago on the back side of his parents' 70 acre cattle farm. When his dad got sick several years ago, they put the property into dad's and his sisters' names. Then, a few years after that, mom and dad bought out the sisters. Finally, a year or so ago, mom and dad signed the deed over to me and my brother. So, it's more of a "family cabin" than any one person's, but dad has, by far, the majority of the time/labor in it and all the material costs. PS, please don't seize it.

lol that's cool as fuck. I fantasize about living off the grid in a cabin, would be sick.

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Originally posted by wotyzoid lol that's cool as fuck. I fantasize about living off the grid in a cabin, would be sick.

Dad wired it and put a solar panel on the roof and a couple of batteries up in the loft area. I can take my little 13" Asus Zenbook and a 128GB thumb drive over there and have a ton of HD movies (I rip and transcode my own Blu-rays and DVDs).

That's awesome, I wonder how much it cost him to build it but you don't have to answer that.

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Originally posted by wotyzoid That's awesome, I wonder how much it cost him to build it but you don't have to answer that.

If I had to guess, it's about $10,000.

that's what i'm talking about

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Originally posted by wotyzoid that's what i'm talking about

I used to have a couple of pics of it on here, but damned Photobucket got rid of free hosting.

very nice, and it has a basement?

Duh. That's where he keeps the bodies.

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Originally posted by wotyzoid very nice, and it has a basement?

No, lol, unfortunately no basement. This entire county is resting on limestone. It would have doubled the cost to put in a basement...maybe more. He dug the footer by hand, and I helped him mix and pour some of the concrete. He used some of the rocks he removed to build the little retaining walls around the streams that flow behind it.

The bodies are in the loft area, JP.

I was gonna say, a good basement foundation is kind of costly, I would have been doubled the impressed, but I am impressed nonetheless it looks very neat, the deck is dope.

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Originally posted by wotyzoid I was gonna say, a good basement foundation is kind of costly, I would have been doubled the impressed, but I am impressed nonetheless it looks very neat, the deck is dope.

My dad is one of the most talented people I know. He's never done carpentry for a living (he has an undergrad in biology, a master's in education), and other than a brief stint in teaching/administration, he was an Oracle and SQL DB programmer for 30 years. But he build that cabin bottom to top, and it's better built and more "square" than most "professional" built homes. But, he is patient and has great attention to detail. If he didn't know how to do something, he'd Google or YouTube it, and after a few tries, he had mastered it. I love that place. The inside has pine paneling, and it smells soooo good when you walk in. The clothes I wear over there come home with that pine smell, and I often want to delay washing them, lol.

Well done, dad!

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Originally posted by wotyzoid Well done, dad!

Yeah, he's something else. Hard to believe he's 71 now. He'll always be 40 or 50 in my eyes.

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