An Inconvenient Sunday
The Ninja is in the shop, because the “service engine” light is on and the car keeps on stalling out for no apparent reason. So we’re down to one car until at least some time tomorrow. This means The Wife… Continue Reading
Soffit House
Kitchen Progress
The island is complete. We finished major construction on it last night; today while I watched the Packers-Vikings game The Wife put the finishing touches on it (a towel rack, handles, and an interior pot rack) and got it into… Continue Reading
A Collection of Random Thoughts
1. The Wife “quit” Toastmasters last week. I’m only four speeches towards getting the basic certification, and I think I’d like to finish it, if only to have actually finished it rather than stopping going because The Wife did. She… Continue Reading
Making The Island
With a lot of work, the bulk of it done by The Wife, our house (particularly our kitchen) is starting to come together. We think we’ll have everything ready to go around Thanksgiving. Just in time for the holidays, so… Continue Reading
Full Spectrum Press
A documentary about my life over yesterday and today will have covered the six major activities that consume the bulk of my existence: 1. Working on my new house. Yesterday The Wife and I painted kitchen cabinet doors and ceiling… Continue Reading
A Series Of Lists
Items unintentionally lost or destroyed in the move: 1. One (1) bottle of rare, high-quality Ukranian vodka2. Two (2) plexiglass-framed prints3. One (1) glass-framed movie poster4. One (1) picture frame for original picture (picture undamaged)5. Two (2) joint bolts for… Continue Reading
I Am Not An Electrician…
And I am not a plumber and I am not a carpenter and I am not a painter. I am a homeowner (again) and that makes me by necessity all of these things. This weekend, I’ve had to re-wire lamps… Continue Reading
House Anxiety: A Haiku
Must move Saturday yet the remodeling is vastly incomplete
DIY Blues, Part II
Why is it that every project involved in getting this house into move-in condition takes twice as long and costs twice as much as we had originally budgeted? That weekend we were out of the house because of the check… Continue Reading
DIY Blues
I couldn’t figure out how to mount the light fixtures. It looked to me like some genius installed the original (ugly) bathroom light fixtures in Soffit House with three-inch conduit. You could run a municipal electrical main with conduit that… Continue Reading