Yes, that's right... it's a little after 06:00 as I'm writing this. My trainee is working again, and I'm taking advantage of her being there. I love getting off early, and I have a bunch of PDOs (Hours off) that need to be used up...
Dumpster-diving again last night, too. I got four more doors. You can see the dumpster from the ambulance bay and I noticed that the dumpster had been emptied when I was out around 01:00, and the doors that were leaning up against the fence were gone. A little later I wandered over there and found that someone had put the doors in the dumpster after it had been emptied. So this was my last chance to get them.
There were five doors there... three 3X8 footers and two 4X8 footers. I drove my truck around and started loading them up.
The doors, as I have mentioned before, are solid two-inch slabs. They are very heavy, and I had to haul them out of the open end of the dumpster, which sits at about five degrees and is twenty feet long, and them haul them down a five-degree concrete slope about forty feet.
So I slid them. I can't actually pick one of them up, that's a two-man job. The three-foot ones weigh about 150 pounds, the four-foot ones around 200. Did I mention that they're very heavy?
So it took me about five minutes for each door, with a breather in between. And I saved the four-footers for the last, naturally. And by the time I got the first four-footer on the truck, I was absolutely exhausted and covered with sweat. So I decided to forego the last four-footer, it will go to the landfill... unless it's still there tomorrow night...
I'm really starting to get enthusiastic about the kitchen project. I'll get the garage cleaned out within the next coupla weeks and get the floor joists in, then I'll lay the floor (doors) down. The joists will have to be extra-strong, since the door weigh so much. And supported in the middles, too, right into the concrete. I'll use 2X8s instead of 2X6s and put 4X4s in the centers.
I'm not really sure what to do with the front... I could build a nice bay window, or put in a fireplace, or maybe change the front entrance. I need to get that figgered out before I get too far along here...
Any way that it goes, I need to get the garage door down and some plywood up. I really wish that I had enough money to build a garage first, but I don't. O'well.
Last night at work was again a really pud night. There are three PRN tech training for evenings, and they were all there, plus the two regular FT techs. So when Teresa and I came in at 21:00, there were seven of us. Everyone left by 22:00, though. And the worst doc for ordering x-rays was on... but there were very few patients.
So I left at 05:00. Reiterating... boy, it's nice to leave early! I got another two hours of sleep yesterday, for a total of four over the last 36 hours, so I'm gonna go to sleep early this morning...
Like right now...