long day

They're taking my dumpster away tomorrow, so I took the day off to get all the remaining trash and debris out of the apartment. I did it too. (Okay, almost.)

I intended to get up there and start working by ten o'clock, but about that time I realized I'd promised my tax information to my accountant (stepmother) by last week, and since she's doing my taxes for free I don't want to piss her off, so I took an hour to dig all that stuff up. So eleven o'clock, it was.

I worked until 5:00 taking the ceilings down. Man, that was awful. Vermiculite insulation. You pull a board down and it just streams out, and the dirt and dust flies. It irritated my eyes so bad. They're still red. Cyn came up, so after supper we went to Home Depot to pick up my windows. Then we went upstairs to work. Cyn pulled up most of the carpet. I continued with the ceiling and walls in the hallway. We both made lots more trips downstairs to the dumpster. She left before 9:00, but I didn't finish until ten to twelve.

The only thing I didn't get done was pull the masonite "paneling" out of the stairway. That's the only remaining thing that would be hard to get rid of with my regular curbside pickup.

Now I have to get up in six hours.

interesting place for lunch

A coworker and I were down in Milwaukee to visit another plant. We went out in search of a place for lunch. Jeff remembered a place that had decent food even though it was a sports bar, but he didn't remember exactly where it was. We rounded a corner and saw a place called 4th Base. He decided that was it and parked. As we walked in he realized it wasn't the place he was looking for. It was a big dark sports bar and it wasn't immediately clear whether they even had food, but then I saw a few bar tables with stools along one wall. They had ketchup bottles so I decided they at least had burgers. We almost left, but then decided to stay and see what the place was like.

We asked the waitress if they had menus. She said no, but there were specials listed on the board, and there was a glass case around behind the bar and we could choose ala cart items from it.

Okay, so we went back to look. There were lobster tails, king crab legs, steaks of various sorts, salmon filets, brussels sprouts, all kinds of things. Things I never expected to see in a bar. One of the specials was orange roughy. Another was jambalaya, which both Jeff and I had, and was good. They also advertised a late-night Thai special.

The clientele was mixed (maybe ten of us) - local businessmen, factory workers and people you'd expect to see in a bar around noon.