I've posted a second version of Pocket
Gopher Restyled on my GMX share. I
will ultimately remove the first one.
If you downloaded the first version,
you'll probably want to update to the
second (the whiter text version).
For some reason, the Android theme
produced white text in the titlebar
and menus, but the text in the
textview (where the gopher content is
rendered) seemed to be tinted slightly
with the base color used in the
background, which meant that the
contrast wasn't great. A little bit of
searching led to a method of
over-riding the text settings for the
textview window, so now the text is
much whiter and the contrast is a bit
easier on the eyes.
In other news, I'm in the midst of
renovating my house. We've renovated
and re-wired almost every room in the
place already, but the bathroom posed
a real difficulty, because it's an old
house and there's only one bathroom.
Given the age of the place (100-ish),
the existing bathroom is rather small
and my wife has long wished for
something more spacious. So I'm
turning one of the bedrooms into a
bathroom. During construction, we'll
have the old bathroom to use, which
solves the major issue. Afterward,
I'll gut it and turn it
into a small study/extra bedroom.
In general, things are going as
expected and all the permits are
approved. But I ran into an
interesting snag. My local landfill no
longer accepts pre-1990 drywall unless
it has been double-bagged in 6-mil
poly bags, owing to concerns over
asbestos. While that's the law, none
of the local building supply stores
sell the bags. I had to order them
online. Strange, huh? I suspect that
there are an awful lot of false
declarations being made at the
landfill about the age of the drywall
being dropped off. I can't bring
myself to do that. While I'm not
worried about such a small amount of
asbestos exposure, the employees at
the landfill are exposed on a daily
basis and that's a serious issue.
In case you're wondering, I will be
suiting up, wearing a respirator,
dampening the walls (to mitigate
dust), setting up an exhaust fan, etc.
I've read through the guides provided
for government employees who do this
kind of work, and I'm a former coal
miner, so I have some experience with
safety in unhealthy working
conditions.
But I'm still waiting on those bags to
arrive. I don't care for delays, but
I've started a month in advance of my
vacation, so that -- hopefully -- the
snags and the demolition work will be
out of the way by the time I have a
sustained opportunity to get at the
project.
I'll provide updates on the work as it
progresses.
