Ray's Ravings

If you want to have fun, try putting insulation under the floor of a house lying on your back with dust flying around and spider webs getting in your hair. In our sixty year old place with the joists at different widths, having to jam them up with extra strips with all the electric wiring getting in the way, the cold water piping, the hot water piping the sewer piping pulling yourself on your back with nothing to spare under that lot but your swearing.
Why bother, well it saves a lot of money doing it yourself and I wouldn't expect anyone else to do it. These older houses are Victorian wooden tents. All new houses are forced to have insulating in the the walls, ceilings and floors. In the older homes in winter you are trying to heat the rest of the town, in the summer they heat up with the flies pouring in all the open windows.
We have it about half done now and have run out of insulation slabs. Will I have enough willpower to get more? The meaning to life is living in a properly insulated house.

I bought an abacus for $1.00! I found out that this one is a Soroban Japnese system. Now, after spending all that money I had to learn how to run it and finally tracked some instructions down through Google. Now all I have to do is learn it from there. Is this a sign of the end of the world?

I alway know when it is Christmas because we then have Christmas cards around the place. On the day we had cold Spam for lunch to celibrate this special time.
I always know when it is New Years Eve, I make sure I go to bed and sleep before midnight.

Thanks for the phone calls and other ways of contact, it is always appreciated. Thanks for being my family even though I don't have any direct contact with you most of the time.
Hope you all have a safe great year, in health and contentment. Raymond Charles Petty.