Bear with me for being scant on here and Twitter. Personal shit ongoing.

Close to a month ago, I painted my basement floor with polyurethane, to touch up a few waterproof patches. Simple 2hr project. (Ya right.)

The paint never cured. Even after a week. Bad batch from factory.

So it had to come off. After 10hr of scraping (and I'm in no physical condition to scrape to begin with), I threw in the towel and rented a concrete grinder with shroud + vac.

The grinder worked good. But the vacuum was utter shit. Kept plugging. So dust went everywhere throughout the house. Upstairs too. About 100lb of concrete dust came off that floor. Fine like flour. (Yes I wore a respirator. And built an air scrubber.)

But as you likely know, Silica dust ain't good. In some ways, it's the new asbestos. So now to get rid of it, every up facing surface of the house has to be cleaned, HEPA vacuumed, wet cleaned. Every household item, wire, pipe, vent, etc. Arduous.

I did have the air tested. Circulating "respirable particulate" isn't too bad, so our exposure is "occupationally acceptable" while we clean. But of course, the longer the duration, the higher the exposure. So clean faster. Easy to say when you haven't run a marathon already. We're about 1/3 done cleaning so far. Ish.

And amid all of that I got banned on LinkedIn. So I can't contact everyone to notify. I'm alive. For now. 🤣 And yes it's really me.

So bear with me as I sort this BS out. Then recover. I'll be back to posting charts and try to gnaw off some Nostr contributions too. To those who followed from LinkedIn, thank you. Appreciate you. Genuinely.