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I now have power in the workspace. New wall studs are added, a backbox is on one of the wall studs, and wired to a receptacle. When it's all finished it will be replaced with a GFCI but for now a basic receptacle will do the job. Now I can get rid of the honking great 20A extension cord that trails all over the place, usually tripping me up when I least expect it. That alone is progress.

I thought I was facing a problem because the cable I ran months ago didn't give me quite as much reach as I hoped. I really didn't want to have to run another 60-odd feet of cable for the sake of adding 12 inches to the end but the alternative was putting a power socket behind where the door will open, which didn't seem like a good plan. Thankfully I had a bit of extra wiggle room on the cable and managed to get it to reach without pulling it horribly tight, so for now we're good.

I also got the threshold floorboard cut and screwed down, and another landing floorboard cut to length and put more or less in place. Soon I need to figure how I'm going to stain the boards in a way that lets me wipe away the stain without staining myself too badly in the process. "Old Americana" is a great color for floorboard but not so great for knees and feet.

Long run yesterday, and it was more humid than I expected so I got home soaked in sweat and my wife said I looked pale (probably from being dehydrated). So I drank a load of water, and didn't make any progress at all on much of anything for most of the rest of the afternoon. But before getting in the shower I decided I needed to make some progress, so performed the enormous task of measuring a support strut to level off the floor, so the last joist isn't significantly lower than the general line of the others. It took more than I hoped, and involved taking a jigsaw to the top edge of an adjacent joist to trim a whisker off the top of it. Now everything is more or less level, and the support is in place. Hopefully motivation will last until I can make some more visible progress on this thing.

Waiting in the lobby for my 3rd doctor appointment of the day.  I had a telephone appointment with my Primary Care provider's office this morning.  Followed by a dental appointment (a fitting for my new dentures.  Next appointment I get them.)  And now I'm waiting to see my new GI doctor.  The first and last of these were prompted by a trip to the emergency room on Monday.  Nothing too serious, but uncomfortable.  I got something stuck in my throat.  It was below the windpipe.  So I could breathe.  I just couldn't swallow.  I suspect I'll have to have another EGD (esophageal gastric dilation.)  If I do it will be my 11th, though the last one was in 2019.  Still, a pain in the neck, literally.

Ugh........

Waiting in the lobby for my 3rd doctor appointment of the day.  I had a telephone appointment with my Primary Care provider's office this morning.  Followed by a dental appointment (a fitting for my new dentures.  Next appointment I get them.)  And now I'm waiting to see my new GI doctor.  The first and last of these were prompted by a trip to the emergency room on Monday.  Nothing too serious, but uncomfortable.  I got something stuck in my throat.  It was below the windpipe.  So I could breathe.  I just couldn't swallow.  I suspect I'll have to have another EGD (esophageal gastric dilation.)  If I do it will be my 11th, though the last one was in 2019.  Still, a pain in the neck, literally.

That then turns into "Okay, maybe one more time if I get to watch" which turns into "Okay, maybe one more time if get to do the deed."

And all those people who say "Well if I were in Nazi Germany what I would have done is..." are showing us exactly what they would have done.