Wednesday - July 01, 2009
Run Ragged
So, I was up at 5am today, on about 4 hours sleep. Got the coffee IV started, loaded up the Saturn with ladders and stuff like it was a rented pack mule, and headed on out. Got to the job site at 8, and it was a cool and soggy NJ morning. 62 with 94% humidity. Lovely window washing weather. By the time I had the first 8 done though, the clouds blew away, the sun came out, and suddenly it was summer. Like throwing a switch. So I spent the rest of the day sweating buckets, but I got the job done. This customer only wanted the outside of the upstairs done, thank you too much, so I didn’t go crazy doing detail work. No scraping, no triple cleaning. But I still did really good work and the windows are nice and clean. I got back here at about 3 and was exhausted. Took a shower, had a couple more glasses of juice to drink, and took a nap. Got up about 6:30, made some decaf and went out on the front balcony to drink it and wake up. Neighbor lady comes walking by and sees me. “Do you still do windows? I need mine done.” So I got my business cards, went over and took a look, she agreed on a price, and I did the job right on the spot. I give the folks in my building a discount, along with extra business cards to hand out. One hand washing the hand washing the windows, right? So now I’m all dirty and damp again, but hey, another $50 in my pocket. So I put on a dry shirt and I’m starting some pasta, and I figure I’ll take out the recycling and the trash while the water heats, so I do that. And I run into 2 more neighbors out having a chat and a smoke, and I talk to them and wind up with another condo job for Friday. Oh, and at the first house this morning I met the friend of “Mrs. outside upstairs”, and she’s going to call me for a whole house estimate. Cool. Word of mouth is the best advertising.
Mr. Squeegee’s window tips of the day:
A) use 2 buckets. One bucket for your soapy water, the other bucket to rinse your scrubber. Every time you come back for a dip, vigorously rinse the scrubber. I did this today, and even after 24 big dirty windows and dusty sills the wash water was still clean enough after the job to pour back into jugs to use another day.
B) If you do screens: try just brushing them first. A good hand brush, like the kind you’d clean up sawdust with. If that doesn’t do it, then use a different scrubber to wash them. Use your >“porcupine" scrubber for screens, not the scrubber with the scrubby pad on one side. Best practice is too have another 2 buckets of clean water: dip the scrubber in the soapy window water, scrub, then rinse in bucket #3. This water will turn brown in a big hurry. Then scrub the screen again with the scrubber dipped in your window rinse bucket. Then again in bucket #4, which is plain clean water. Then blot the screen with rags, assuming it isn’t a removable screen you can just shake dry. You have to get the soap rinsed off thoroughly or else it will dry white and blotchy. This method works, and you still keep your wash water clean. It just means you have to buy a couple more buckets and a few more 5 gallon jugs. (At this point I’m sometimes hauling 15 gallons of water to a job site. You can’t count on water being available)
Ok, dishes are done, laundry can wait, dinner is cooked and eaten, and I’m still tired. Must post ... at least something. Ah! A couple cartoons. Good old Ramirez.
I think it’s fantastic that the Honduran Supreme Court gave that wannabe dictator the toss.
Somebody has his head up his O-ass if he can’t see that. Sic Semper Tyrannis baby!
Damn straight. An impossible job, well done. I wish I could say “Now come on home”,
but the next stop is going to be Afghanistan. Don’t fuck that up too, Obama
Thousands of U.S. Marines and hundreds of Afghan troops poured into Taliban-infested villages of southern Afghanistan with armor and helicopters Thursday in the first major operation under President Barack Obama’s strategy to stabilize the country.
The offensive in the once-forgotten war was launched shortly after 1 a.m. Thursday local time in Helmand province, a Taliban stronghold and the world’s largest opium poppy producing area. The goal is to clear insurgents from the hotly contested region before the nation’s Aug. 20 presidential election.
Officials described the operation, dubbed Khanjar, or “Strike of the Sword,” as the largest and fastest-moving of the war’s new phase, involving nearly 4,000 of the newly arrived Marines and 650 Afghan forces. British forces last week led similar, but smaller, missions to clear out insurgents in Helmand and neighboring Kandahar provinces.
“Where we go we will stay, and where we stay, we will hold, build and work toward transition of all security responsibilities to Afghan forces,” Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson said in a statement.
God Bless Our Troops!
Gee, ya think? I’m not sure really, since Jordan could have had this bunch of crazy killers 40 years ago. Ah, I get it.
The Palis are going to take over Jordan next. Not surprised, but I’m a bit behind on the news from that region
I’ve got some good emails that I’ll get to tomorrow. And with that ... good night!
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