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When hindsight pokes into the current moment and says "Go for it!" then I will buy a hoarding amount of anything. Clothing constantly kills me. By the time you figure out what's good, the product is last year's news or sold out.

I would have bought a lifetime supply had I known better. It prompted me to buy scores of wool socks (not nearly a lifetime supply, I'll do it right next time), 25 pairs of pants (I bought their entire inventory of my size but would've done 100 pairs), a decade or more of certain shoes, etc.

Clothing protects and keeps us warm. We clothe our animals, outdoor plants during winter, cars, boats, and electronic devices. Some are fashionable and some are functional. We need it for extreme environments.

Dust is the enemy of electronics. It's not encouraging when a herd of dustlings plays pattycake. Precision equipment doesn't like it either. Dust attracts more dust and then moisture; eventually it hardens or oxidizes the surface. Normal household dust, that is....

Countless species of things are flying through the air in any given shop. Grinding wheel tidbits, sawdust, and metal filings are not typical dust particles. They have teeth, the power to crush and scratch and gouge. Plus, they're prodigiously produced with a velocity and direction unattainable by non-supercharged debris.

Walking into my shop is like that vacation home with everything blanketed in plastic or sheets. I've made coverings for select equipment out of thick plastic sheet. My landlord probably thinks there are nefarious deeds afoot, hidden equipment and all.

UPDATE 5/10/2021: An irresponsible landlord decided to do some illegal work on my shop ceiling in nine places without telling me beforehand so I could prepare. No permit, no licensed plumbers or electricians, no professionals. Puddles of nasty water, ceiling tiles hanging and on the floor, nails embedded in the carpet, water and ceiling residue on everything within an 8ft radius of each drill location.

They did move my wet tile saw, a tool designed to be splashed with water, go figure. They didn't move the $7000 worth of Dahle paper cutters, body panel set I was painting for an antique motorcycle...and that's just one area!

I showed my landlord and he said the workers told him it was cleaned up. So they're liars, too. He said he was going to do something about it and then he did...he promptly left.

Some of the damaged stuff was literally moved in hours ago when I came back to find them partying in my shop. You'd think with the nutty I threw they'd have been more cautious because they still had a dozen more holes to drill. This isn't the first time. Their get-out-of-jail-free cards have been used up already.

If I hadn't planned on moving already, things are going to explode when the building inspector cites him for illegal work and I file a claim with his insurance company. They will investigate further and discover more shenanigans. Hopefully I can hang on long enough to move out.

They replaced sewer pipes, too. Same mess underneath. "At least they're consistent!" says the optimist. Less than three hours earlier, my sister visited my shop for the first time. "Your shop is SO clean!" seemed such a distant memory.

A large plastic funnel is MIA. It would be the perfect funnel if you had a problem, like, say, you were doing illegal work on someone's ceiling and water was pouring everywhere and you didn't bring the proper equipment and what better thing than a friggin' huge funnel?! Since they were using other tools and equipment of mine, I have to assume everything was acci-purposely missing since it's easy to confuse who owns what...honest mistake. Checking everything would literally take weeks. I am, apparently, the only one who cares so it ultimately rests on me.

How did the wet tile saw fare, you're wondering? It still got covered in crap anyway, but at least they can say they moved something. And they only moved it because it was in their way.

Posted by M: April 3, 2021

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