Latte Hall
Originally uploaded by Jake Sutton.
It wasn’t on the list I published, but it was on “the list”. The color works exceptionally well with the other adjacent colors (not pictured).
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I have a shit-ton of projects I would like to do around the house. This is a (probably partial — I’m a little crazy…) list, which I am posting now to maybe force myself to get moving on at least one.
- Sand & stain the deck (This is must this year!).
- Fiddle with the new front door handle so that it’s “right”.
- Re-key the new garage door handle so that it matches the front door.
- Tile office floor (slate or something similar).
- Tile the mudroom (slate or something similar) — perhaps extend this to the kitchen door way and the top of the stairs.
- Build cabinets, etc. for the mud room.
- Replace master bath carpet (Carpet in a bathroom is icky!) with cork tiles.
- Reconfigure the walk-in closet.
- Build a console/cabinet/printer stand to go between the new desks in the office.
- Build a dresser/chest of drawers for The Wife.
- Finish my dresser.
- Replace the kitchen “desk” with actual cabinets.
- Replace counter tops.
- Get wood flooring installed in the living room and dining room.
- Replace stair rail with book cases.
- Do a bunch of stuff in the guest bath.
- Tile floor.
- Build storage.
- Replace counter top.
Obviously a few of these involve large amounts of cash and hiring professionals, but 90% of it is stuff I can/want to do myself.
I just need to get to work is all…
Hey Jake, what’d you do this weekend?
I’ll tell you:
- Friday, I called in sane and ended up spending the day moving a sprinkler head and getting my sprinklers fired up. Sadly, I’m already well behind the Joneses as far as the green lawn competition goes.
- In the evening I met up with Holzie and some folks from work for one of his many sendoffs. (He joined the Marines…)
- Saturday, I tried really hard not to die from the allergic attack I suffered after spending so much time in the Spring air Friday.
- Over the course of Saturday and Sunday, I worked on a pair of desks for our office.
- We also found a paint color for our office (so someday soon, we’ll have to remove the desks we just set up in there).
- Did I mention allergies suck? Gotta say the Benadryl Dreams were entertaining, though.
- Caught up on seven or eight TiVo’ed episodes of Veronica Mars. I don’t care if it makes me a girl; I love that show.
- I think I went to Home Depot four times over the course of three days.
Just some randomness:
- Man, it seems like Google has de-listed the BlahStuff (or at least ranked me down a ton). My traffic has dropped by more than half starting last Wednesday. If any of y’all that get regular Google hits felt like mentioning BS in a fresh post in the hopes to re-upping my Google-juice, I’d appreciate it.
- Hey, look! It’s Mars!
- Monkey pictures are fun.
- Started working on a new double desk set-up for our office on Saturday. Got some nice 3/4″ maple veneer plywood and glued some half-inch MDF on the bottom to strengthen it up a bit. Got to use my flush-cutting router bit for the first time, but then it got all cold and snowy. Gonna treat the edges with some strips of this cool laminated oak I have, so it should give a cool effect. Photos when there’s something to see.
- My tattoo has a few spots that will require touch-up. I wonder if it’s just me, in general, or the forearm location, specifically, or a combo that cause me such problems in healing my tattoos.
- Saw Murderball on A&E. Good stuff (except for all the Dog the Bounty Hunter commercials). Zupan’s the man.
- The BU Terriers swept UMass and will meet UNH in the Hockey East semifinals.
- My friends at the Exchange Tavern managed to shoehorn a dart board into their fine establishment. I’m excited. Now if only they’d update their web site.
- What with Miracle Ed’s visit and the fresh tattoos, we’ve been out of the hot box for over a month now. Time to get back on the horse real soon. Luckily I haven’t slipped much (yet).
- The biggest crawdaddy you’ll ever see (thanks Brandon).
So, yeah… I’m still here. Here’s a little catch-up:
- My efforts at work on the superultramegaubercrazy-high priority project have come to a rather frustrating result so far thanks to interoperability problems between ColdFusion 5 and Oracle9. Every time we hit the Oracle9 database it causes the memory usage of the ColdFusion server to climb, with that memory never being released. This eventually causes the connection to the database to die with an S1001 Memory Allocation Error, which requires a ColdFusion restart to fix the problem (until the memory allocation builds back up again). Super-fucking-duper.
- The Big Blue Couches rock. While we are trying to keep the pets off them, it’s obviously futile. At least the puddles of Mingus hair come off the ultra-luscious blue microsuede without a problem. I’m just extra-pleased with the fact taht I can lie completely prostrate on the big sofa without touching either arm.
- The Wife and I have been to the hotbox yoga a total of three times so far. I am enjoying it quite a bit, though I think I may have overstretched my back the last time out. We hope to squeeze a couple more classes into our two week trial period.
- My motorcycle wrenching buddy Erik and his wife are inches away from having their baby boy. Very exciting times for them!
- I’ll be brining the second turkey of the month for Thanksgiving festivities starting tonight. If you haven’t brined a turkey or at least eaten the product of said process, I can’t even express how much you need to try it.
- I’m almost done with the Tales of the Otori trilogy. I highly recommend all three books.
- Now let’s turn the lens outward a bit:
- Winners seem few and far between at American Music Awards — The hour we watched was pretty worthless.
- BitTorrent to block links to pirate flicks — Smart. There will always be way to find torrents of pirated material, though.
- Breastfeeding appears to reduce diabetes risk — Huh… Of course this is one of those studies that will eventually be conflicted by another study that says “breastfeeding give you brain tumors” or something. Kind of liek the red wine is good/bad for you studies.
- The Xbox 360 is out - and sold out. Reviews are mostly so-so, and it might have a few bugs still. They call it the “bleeding edge” for a reason, eh?
- Oh, and Paris Hilton got attacked by her pet kinkajou (which the press generally has been calling a “monkey” - obviously, it’s actually a Pokemon). Thankfully, it looks like she may not get to keep the varmint — Just the fact that she named it “Baby Luv” is a clear case of animal abuse.
And thus concludes today’s category smorgasbord.
The Big Blue Couches
Originally uploaded by Jake Sutton.
We finally got our new blue couches from the Furniture Room delivered today.
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