We had our second triple-digit temps of the year today. Next week will bring some cool down with highs in the mid-80's. Perfect. Open the house up at night and by morning it's fresh and cool. Close it up about 11:00 and it stays that way through the afternoon. By 2:00 or so it's too hot to work out in the sun, but if I'm in the shade I can sand away to my heart's content. That's the plan tomorrow.
In the vehicle restoration game there are levels of paint jobs. The easiest and cheapest involves taping off anything you don't want painted and shooting everything else. Then there's the "glass out" paint job, which is just what it sounds like. It implies that all the glass was removed, but that things like bumpers, door handles, and other bits and pieces also came off. Less chance for overspray onto things that didn't get taped well. The ultimate is a "bare metal" paint job. Much more time consuming, but you know nothing ugly was left hidden underneath previous layers of paint. In the case of the truck I've found some of that "ugly." When I got the body back from media blasting (sand is too harsh) I could see some big patches of body filler, "bondo." I now have all of that ground and sanded off the bed and some of it was waaay too thick. Metal repair should have been done so only a thin layer of bondo was necessary. I'll be doing that repair...and taking pictures of it all so I can show that it wasn't just a bare metal paint job, but that the paint went on a good surface.
Tomorrow I'll start doing that same bondo removal on the cab. What will I find???
The mayor of L.A. has had a conversation with Donald Sterling, owner of the Clippers. Mayor Garcetti doesn't expect Sterling to cooperate with the NBA and agree to sell the team. "I think he believes in his heart he's a really good person."
Seriously? Here's a guy who has a history of racist actions, is a slum lord, has a girlfriend young enough to be his granddaughter even though he's been married for over 50 years, and he considers himself a really good person?
But then that's the problem with self-assessment. When we set the standards for ourselves the score is whatever we want it to be. Anybody, including Donald Sterling, can get an A. Just set the metrics accordingly. Didn't kick any dogs or smack any little kids? Yep, you're a good person.
Too bad we don't have an absolute standard that applies to everyone. It should be simple enough that anyone can grasp its meaning and easily measure themselves against its specifics - "do this" and "don't do this."
Short, not like a government tax code. Maybe just 10 items. Not that there aren't other do's and dont's that are important, but 10 should be enough for a measurement. If they were basic enough it would tell us about the trickier standards. "Hey, if you can't get these right do we really need to look at the others?"
Yeah, ten things, basic do's and dont's, that would apply to everyone no matter where they lived, how much money they had, how smart they were....
I wonder if Anyone else has thought of that.
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