Mindless Juices

So, I woke up Saturday morning with a bit of a mission. I headed downstairs to our hallway. I removed the last bit of carpet and pulled up the vinyl flooring. I then spent hours scraping the glue off as well as scraping the drips and drops our plaster and painting people dripped and dropped when they were building our house. I made the floor as smooth as possible. I even tried to fill the crack in the concrete. It's a minor crack and more aesthetically unpleasing than anything. However, the stuff I tried to use is just crappy. It must be designed for bigger cracks because I could barely get the stuff to go in the crack. And it stuck more to the plastic tube from which it was being dispensed than the concrete. The stuff would have been better in a tub so as to be applied like spackle... it would have saved us the trouble of buying a tube gun thingy. Anyway, after lots of scraping and a little filling, I started sealing. I pulled out the sealer and, although warned, was still taken aback by the strong smell. I mixed it well and began applying it. Mind you, there are two "closets" in which I had to apply this stuff. ALso, keep in mind that, in order to minimize impact to us, I started at the end of the hallway and had to shut the bonus room door very early on in the process (or else leave the house wide open for far too many hours). With that door shut, I had no cross breeze. Shortly thereafter, I had to shut the garage door for similar reasons. Shortly thereafter, I believe I got a buzz and even though I went outside for a good 10 minutes taking deep breathes and trying to clear myself of this unintentional huffing, I believe I ended up getting a little high. Now, I only say this because I woke up on Sunday with a KILLER headache. Now, I've NEVER had a hangover, but I imagine that's what it's like. I have never been more miserable from just a headache. It seemed only time made it go away. So, my advice, if sealing concrete, get a fan or two and wear an odor minimizing type mask. Meanwhile, the hallway is completely ready for Pergo. It is still backordered, so we're waiting impatiently. The hallway looks 10 times better than it did. It smells "better" too, if you prefer paint thinner to kitty litter. I do. I'm glad I listened to my friends who told me to seal the concrete. My last project this weekend was to install the Infinity speakers that we took out of Miles into my Civic. The front ones went in pretty easy. I already had a wiring harness for them and I just needed to cut out the plastic that prevented the Infinity speakers from fitting. THe back ones posed more of a challenge. I had bought the wrong wiring harness for those, so I needed to exchange them and I needed to drill new hole and, consequently, I needed new screws and nuts to secure the speakers. I went to Best Buy and Home Depot and my friend Mike came with me and helped install the second pair. Everything sounded good until, on the way home, we heard a buzzing come from the passenger front speaker. I dropped Mike home and checked it out briefly when I got home. I was hoping it was just a weird vibration, but it's not. It's either the speaker or the connections. If it's the connections, I'll be just fine. I can fix those. If it's the speaker, that will totally suck. But, man, it's nice to have tunes in my car again.