Baymule’s Journal

[Mike CHS]

You did yourself great and saved a heck of a lot of money and that is about as good as it gets.

 

[Baymule]

I got the radiant heat barrier ordered yesterday, it will be here Wednesday. I have a partial roll leftover from the sheep barn in Lindale. I can get started tomorrow if I recover from yesterday.
Got to get 45 ten foot 1x4s for the lath first. Trailer is still hitched to the truck from me taking back the shingles. I was so tired, it was so hot, it was 3PM when I got back home, I left it and staggered in the house. I don’t even remember what day it was, but it’s still there. Need to drop the trailer, won’t need it until Friday when I pick up the metal. I could drop trailer and go get 1x4s after church, the self beating never stops.

I’m sitting here thinking, when I finish the roof, and I can crawl in the house to hibernate the rest of the summer under a fan and AC vent, like the brainless idiot I am, I’ll go start on the barn! And moving fence up front to accommodate the 30’ culvert extension AND fence on the wooded side that has been an ongoing project since last winter……… I enjoy beating myself up with power tools, hand tools and if I don’t have any of those handy, a pine branch will do.

Oh! I just remembered! It was THURSDAY when I took the shingles back! I’m not totally brain dead after all.

 

[farmerjan]

Heard on the radio some ad, yesterday, and that a sign of getting older, and senile, was worrying about details that make no difference.... like remembering what day you went and did something that really is of no consequence to anyone or anything other than saying.... " now what day did I go take the shingles back and leave the trailer looked up?'.....

just saying... seems rather ironic that I heard that ad and then read your post..... and that it is a sign of getting older, and senile, and you take it as a sign of not losing your mind.....

 

[Baymule]

Hahaha! I take it as a sign of being exhausted. Maybe senile people’s brains are just tired!

 

[Ridgetop]

No. It has been proven that forgetting stuff that is not important (like which day you didn't drop the trailer) is just a way for the brain to get more storage. Like cleaning out the closet after a big sale that you went to even though you didn't need any more clothes.
It is the mind's way of making room for other new information. Like remembering that you haven't bought Blue Bell in a while and ate the last bite yesterday.

When you are completely dehydrated you can't always drink enough water to recover. Go swimming or take a lukewarm bath. Your skin will soak up and rehydrate you. Soak in the tub with a pitcher of water or lemonade.

 

[CLSranch]

No. It has been proven that forgetting stuff that is not important (like which day you didn't drop the trailer) is just a way for the brain to get more storage. Like cleaning out the closet after a big sale that you went to even though you didn't need any more clothes.

I love that view, since I've suffered from severe CRS since I was a teen. I've had people ask at work how can you not remember my name yet. I say there's a good chance one of us won't be here in 2 weeks and we'll never see each other again. It's going to take longer for me to remember. Although I'm still asking my wife what people's names are at church and we've been going for years. I talked to a fellow yesterday about bee's. I had to ask the wife a few weeks ago what his name was then to talk about bee's. I don't know his name and didn't yesterday either.

 

[CLSranch]

I've gotten to where I just say nice to see you instead of nice to meet you after, having a buddy's girlfriend say it's nice to meet you to CLSranch AGAIN for the 3rd time. How was I to know. He was always getting a new one.

 

[Mini Horses]

People NAMES are lost in an area of my mind, too. Strange because I remember most other things -- unless unimportant crap. I do remember most animal names that's apparently a different spot up there . The mind is a strange place!

 

[Baymule]

My husband and I both had a hard time remembering names. If one of us remembered the name, we’d say hi (name) so the other one would know. If we ran into someone that one of us knew and the other didn’t it went like this,
This is my wife, D ( no name at front of sentence)
Me- hi, glad to meet you, I’m D and what’s your name?

Or,

Hi Sam, this is my wife D.

Yay! He knew their name! It worked in reverse for me.

 

[Baymule]

I slept until 6:30. I took a Benadryl OTC sleeping pill last night. Still woke up at 4AM, but went back to sleep. My back and neck muscles are screaming at me, from staying on the roof until 1:30 Saturday. Yesterday, after church, I dropped a 2x6 on the high arch of my foot. It hurt, could barely hobble around, so spent rest of the day in recliner with foot propped up. It’s better this morning, I did flexing exercises, pointing toes forwards, then backwards yesterday. I guess I didn’t break anything. So taking today off. Gonna stay off my foot, it gets one day to heal and it better hurry up. I want to have the back side of the roof ready by Saturday. That’s where all the vents are, Darrel is going to bring his brother, who knows how to put metal on a roof and cut out for vents.

I’ll be rolling out radiant heat barrier, securing it with 2X4’s . The 2x4s will be the lath to screw the metal to.

Foot up, out of coffee, going to get another cup and see how little I can do today.