Saturday: Man, I'm tired

[elfs]

Good grief, what a morning. Omaha and I had our first school maintenance scheduled this morning, which means, you got it, I spent the day cleaning gutters.

The pine seeding season had ended, and the prior four days it had rained, so the roof had once been covered in these small, soft pine cones about the size of a fingertip (severed, preserved), but now those soft, severed pine cones had drifted down into the rain gutters to form a mass many dozens of yards long, four inches wide, and three inches deep. Much of it was soaked through.

I managed to get about half the school done in the four hours allotted, hauling off the roof approximately 200 pounds (avoirdupois) of the stuff, in eight rounds of 6-gallon bags. I also cut a shrub's worth of grapevines that had started to make its way onto the roof.

Starting at 10, and calling an hour, more or less for lunch and water and so on, we arrived home about three and I was completely wiped out. This didn't stop me from taking Yamaraashi-chan over to a friend's house for an evening get-together with about a dozen of her classmates, or making a very delicious miso and tofu soup for my dinner (good grief, I did the maths and there's 28 grams of protein in that!). I also gave a friend a ride to recover her repaired automobile.

I have been a vegetable most of the evening, however. This is not good as I am currently contractually obligated (yes! Although if and when I'll get paid is a different matter) to master the Facebook Connect protocol, and although I'm getting there it's still a foreign country. (It doesn't help that the Python interface to Facebook does its metaprogramming the old way, which is so gauche as to make me itch.)

Comments

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Not sure if your local building codes and weather conditions permit it, but you could look into replacing the rain gutters with a drip plate and a French drain on the ground. No gutters, no need to clean.

According to "Japanese Homes and their Surroundings", this was quite common on older Japanese houses.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=fme9GudgmpoC&lpg=PP1&ots=ayObOJCECj&dq=japanese%20homes%20and%20their%20surroundings&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

At least there weren't any dead fish this time.

pounds (avoirdupois)

[(Anonymous)]

Does a pound equal a pound no matter which system you use? It's the ounces that are different :)

Joshua (a math/physics geek)