Lost Time

I'm so pissed and tired and bored with being sick. It's either the flu, a really nasty cold, or a severe allergy attack, or some combo of all three. Nothing's gotten done on the RV this past week, and very little has gotten done in the house either. I did take a couple of things to the auction house and I packed up a bunch of boxes of books to take to auction in a couple of weeks. And today I took a box of D&D and comics and comic-related books to my favorite comic store, Pastimes.

At the moment, I'm pissed because my Modesty Blaise books are really late, like over a month now. At least the Buffy comics are coming regularly, more or less.

Excuse me while I go cough my lungs out once again.

Tools Two

Not only did I get to learn the table saw, so I'll be able to make the cabinets, but I got to use an impact wrench. I'm becoming close friends with ear protectors. I also got the last of the nasty carpet out of the cab itself-- you should have seen me folded up under the steering wheel, pulling and tugging and sweating. And I don't fold or unfold as easily as I used to. I think I'm going to have spray-on bedliner in the cab, which will give some insulation and noise deadening. The passenger seat is gone and in its place will be a box big enough to house the batteries and a space for other tools.

There's some repairs to do in some corners and on the ceiling. Then I'll be ready to paint (well, TSP first, then Killz primer, then paint). Then install the cabinets.

Whew.

Tools

Today I got to learn how to use a new tool. On one wall of my RV, there were about 10 big screws sticking through from the bathroom wall with the heads covered by the shower wall. So I got to use a grinder thingy to cut the pointy ends off flush with the wall. As it was clouding over and was dim, the sparks looked like a Catherine Wheel from when I was a kid.

Tomorrow the table saw!

RV Progress Report

Most of the interior demolition has been done. We took up the nasty carpet and the weirdly cut plywood underneath, and have now put down A-C plywood (Birch finish) all the way from the bathroom to the cab with only one cut. There's one small place that'll get a piece of its own. The ceiling was patched halfway with melamine (or the like), badly cut so that it's popping out. We're going to take it out, recut it to fit, and turn it over so we can paint it. We have to take out the old fridge and put in the new electric-only one (that only pulls 70 watts!). All the old overhead cabinets have been removed, which immediately made the space feel much larger.

I've begun measuring for the new cabinets, which are going to put everywhere there's wall space. They'll be units with 6 inch deep shelves and a frame extension deep enough to put frosted acrylic sliding doors. They'll also have holes drilled to put pegs in so the shelves are adjustable. I've measured many things in my kitchen etc and very few are wider than 6 inches; even a stout-looking Juicy Juice bottle is less than 6 inches across. All the wall and ceiling are to be painted a pale sage green. With the pale walls, pale floor, and the frosted acrylic panels, it should look and feel light and airy.

In the cabover section, I'll be using white rubber-wrapped wire boxes that fit together with round connectors. They're about 15x15x15. I figure I can fit about 13 of them with small spaces left for other things and some space on top too for other flat things. I have stout plastic crates in loud colors which I'll use in the two cabinets, which will keep visible colors pale.

Then comes all the wiring, planning the lighting, testing the water system and propane, etc. Lots to do.