The timeline is looking a little grim, but one wall in the bedroom looks beautiful. Last night, it took me a little more than an hour and a half to lay down a second base coat on the entire bedroom. This evening, ragging on a glaze coat onto one wall…
I had my first moment of “the joys of home ownership” yesterday. I’ve been digging at some of the worst cracks in the walls of the bedroom, filling them with joint compound and sanding them smooth before painting (photo right, click to enlarge). It worked fabulously on two of the…
Perhaps working out on Friday evening was overkill. Every muscle in my body is sore, but most especially my traps and delts. Which I did a fantastic job exercising on both weight machines and while painting. I tried an experiment today with the kitchen. I tried out a faux glaze…
Today was my first real day working in my new apartment. I took the day off, and have been reveling in home improvement since 9:30 this morning. I thought my first priority would be painting. I want to do something striking in the apartment, and the light gray/blue used throughout…
I own my own home now. Or, at least, a bank does, and I get to pay off a huge mortgage. I got Julia’s buy-off on what Ricker called a “black-hole” project. I learned that Dennis and I–and Roel and Thanos and the whole Oracle Java team–turned the dial. Really…
The deed is done. The papers signed. The check for $56,824.14 gone. I get the keys Thursday at 9 am
I just wanted to share this wonderful video with my regular readers (Mom, Chanel & Heather). This is part of how I became so wrapped-around-the-axle about transit that I’ve been blogging almost daily about it on my other blog.
[Asked, how can you drink that wine?] You raise the glass to the lips, you tilt the head slightly backwards, and you let the liquid trickle down gently past the tonsils <sip/> like that. Of course I’ve had an awful lot of practice, but even you’ll come to it in…
This is a blog post I can’t publish for a long time. When Taylor ended our nascent relationship a few weeks ago, she played the “chemistry” card. I know that card. It’s been played so many times. And I know why it gets played. I don’t fall for women quickly.…
I started mucking around with blogging about the transit situation here in Seattle a couple of weeks ago. This blog averages a couple of hits a day. The new blog got 70 hits. Yeah, 20 are from me, reviewing what I wrote. But man, the traffic is high.
