In other news, I spent a significant amount of time yesterday reseating a toilet. It seems that the wax seals do not last forever and somehow having water dripping from the kitchen ceiling was just too disgusting to live with.
6/25/07
| One sod cutter and one
rototiller later, the lawn has been
seeded. I know that seeding a lawn on
the first day of summer
is probably not the best possible way to make a lawn, but we do what we
must. In other news, I spent a significant amount of time yesterday reseating a toilet. It seems that the wax seals do not last forever and somehow having water dripping from the kitchen ceiling was just too disgusting to live with.
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6/13/07
The FGSC has broken new ground in accepting deletion mutants of Cryptococcus neoformans. These come from the labs of Jenny Lodge at Saint Louis University and from Hiten Madhani at the University of California, San Francisco. More info will be forthcoming on the FGSC web-page.
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Anyone who has been following this story remembers that
I was pounding away on an old path that cut a lawn into three unusable
spaces. Well, the path is gone. As much fun as it was to destroy it with
just a wrecking bar, I finally had to rent a jackhammer to break it up.
I have, however, learned how to build a path that will last for a
hundred years. Start off with coarse aggregate concrete maybe 10- 12 cm
and make sure that you put in welded-wire-mesh. Then lay the paving
stones in about 5 cm of fine mortar. It also helps if you use good
quality pavers- 3-4 cm thick.
We ended up taking out about 7 cubic yards of rubble! Now, all we have left to do is to re-grade the lawn and seed out the bare places and then to enjoy our new grass patch.
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| Whats in my MP3 player? Thom Yorke's The Eraser |
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