Some may notice the new avatar.

The sister is holding a muilti-purpose tool. Useful for destroying walls, cutting pipes (several kinds.....), causing folks to walk bow-legged, and other assorted afflictions, ailments, career objectives, and so on.

Aside from my (ab?)normal and usual occupational pursuits, I have recently taken up rehabbing ANOTHER house - not the one I am living in. If I cant resell it when done, I'll rent it out to a bunch of cute queer men who have their rental interviews in the convent....

Stay tuned for new, exciting (boring) posts on the topic. Ascerbic, constructive, and other varied comments will be welcomed(?).

LOL ... that poor house!

Those poor tenants to be...

You look good with a tool in your hand. --FLO--

When Kristoff say SawsALL... you better cross your legs and smile

I love the new look by the way.

Jema

Just as Kristoff has replaced his hedge clippers with a super-duper reciprocating/orbital Super Saw-all, I ran across a brief description of a 1953 gathering of the San Diego Bar Association. Included in the entertainment was a skit featuring Superior Court Judge Lawrence Turrentine, who had been noted in the recently published Kinsey Report for his practice of sentencing various offenders to castration.

Records seem to be missing for most of the castrations, but Judge Turrentine, when interviewed later in life, thought that he had ordered about 140. Others in the San Diego legal community put the number closer to 400, though some were ordered by Judge Turrentine’s colleague on the bench, Judge John Hewicker.

The first judicial castration in San Diego under Judge Turrentine took place in 1938. The last one I can find described in detail was in 1956, when a teenager was castrated for committing arson. He burned down an abandoned chicken coop.

The full description of the skit was that it involved Judge Turrentine on stage wielding hedge clippers.

I just noticed our good sister traded in her clippers for a power tool. What's next? A laser powered burdizzo?

kristoff wrote: Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:46 pm Some may notice the new avatar.

If I cant resell it when done, I'll rent it out to a bunch of cute queer men who have their rental interviews in the convent....

What happens when the rent is late?

I'd be a bit suspicious to rent that house. As long as those lost hedge clippers aren't accounted for, I don't think I'd risk sitting down on a toilet for example.

Since I previously threatened to share my ongoing adventures with another house rehabbing, I suppose I ought to bore everyone with some details.

My business partner and I bought a single family two-story over basement house in South Minneapolis, Minnesota (US). The property was about to go into foreclosure, and I think (hope) we got a good deal on the price. We’ll see… when we are done and ready to re-sell.

The folks who lived there were both grossly, morbidly obese, and quite filthy in their habits, which shows all over the house. There have been no repairs, and extremely little maintenance done in about 15 years, save for a new shingle roof about 5 years ago, after a storm, paid for by insurance. When these folks moved out they left behind a great deal of trash as well as abandoned personal property, which I had to haul away and pay to dispose of (2500 pounds of it).

This past Thursday we had the electric power company (Xcel – lousy bastards) drop our power line into the house. They were 3-1/2 hours late. We then installed a new service panel (circuit breaker box) and installed new power leads in from the meter box. The inspector showed up an hour early, saw that we knew what we were doing, and passed the inspection with a couple of requirements we needed to add (bonding the mast to the panel and ground rod, and grounding the water main on the street side of the water meter). Regardless, we got a pass sticker on the panel. Xcel reconnected our power at 2100 (11 PM) the same day, a five hour delay. Very nasty letter has been sent, and I will refuse to pay their service bill. They cost me more than they charge.

Once we had de-trashed the house, we began removing walls (plaster, lath, framing) where we did not want them, for now only on the second floor. There will be more of that to come in lower reaches of the house. There were two very tiny bedrooms on the second floor, with very shallow, small closets between them. We removed the closets, and recessed a 4” x 8” suspension beam into the ceiling to support the span of the ceiling and roof. Significant stabilization has resulted, and all sagging is out of the ceiling. The two small bedrooms are now one, and new closet space is being built into the end of the now larger room, as well as a new linen closet for the bathroom where one of the old bedroom entrance doors was located.

The other bedroom on the same floor is also having its closet rebuilt. Both bedrooms and the bathroom on this floor are being re-wired to bring them up to building code. Today, I re-wired the bathroom with a 20 Amp circuit, routed through a GFCI receptacle so that everything in the room is fault interruptible. I also brought a new circuit into the now doubled bedroom, and did some routing of cabling under the floor, which I had removed/replaced (where the old closets were). Of course, the bedrooms are being equipped with Arc-Retardant Interruptible circuit breakers (required by code here as of 01 May 2007).

Tomorrow, Tony (my partner) will cut channels into the wall plaster in both bedrooms and drill wire routing holes for most of the remainder of the re-wiring on that floor. He will also cut a new access to the attic (above ceiling area), so that I can crawl through and wire ceiling lights. I expect that on either Wednesday or Thursday I will be able to “hot up” all of the wiring up there (the bath is “hot” already).

That is the current insanity, thus far. Of course, I work a regular job full time days, and a part-time accounting and tax practice as well (very busy this time of year with tax filings). No wonder the sister is nucking futts….

JesusA (imported) wrote: Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:00 pm Just as Kristoff has replaced his hedge clippers with a super-duper reciprocating/orbital Super Saw-all, I ran across a brief description of a 1953 gathering of the San Diego Bar Association. Included in the entertainment was a skit featuring Superior Court Judge Lawrence Turrentine, who had been noted in the recently published Kinsey Report for his practice of sentencing various offenders to castration.

Records seem to be missing for most of the castrations, but Judge Turrentine, when interviewed later in life, thought that he had ordered about 140. Others in the San Diego legal community put the number closer to 400, though some were ordered by Judge Turrentine’s colleague on the bench, Judge John Hewicker.

The first judicial castration in San Diego under Judge Turrentine took place in 1938. The last one I can find described in detail was in 1956, when a teenager was castrated for committing arson. He burned down an abandoned chicken coop.

The full description of the skit was that it involved Judge Turrentine on stage wielding hedge clippers.

One of my friends from San Diego had paranoid schizophrenic. She was a probation officer who made recommendations in cases involving rape or other sexual violence-related cases. Her recommendations essentially were for some near equivalence of castration. She was still working in 1980. I don’t think that anyone was castrated, but she apparently wanted castrations.