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Last Friday the floor guy, John Crow of Crow’s Quality Flooring, came and installed the kitchen floor. It’s wide and long oak plank running perpendicular to the short narrow oak elsewhere in the house. Its up flush against the shorts so no cap is needed for the transition. The flooring is going to sit there […]

Pauly Shore is Dead is like watching someone’s therapy during a major transition. It also manages to be fairly funny at the same time. It’s good enough that I’ve watched all the DVD extras, but part of that might just be fascination at the whole project. If you watch this, be sure to check ou […]

We happened across another DVD sale at the local video store and picked up 15 movies for $4 each. First up is Club Dread. It’s a slasher flick parody without going overboard on jokes. That’s good in that you aren’t overwhelmed in wackiness, but bad in that it makes it just entertaining enough to not […]

We got the new GE front loaders delivered on Tuesday of last week but they couldn’t complete the installation of th dryer because we had the wrong size connection at 3/8″. According to the install manual it needed a 1/2″ connection. I saw that I couldn’t just remove the valve because there wasn’t enough clearance […]

For her birthday yesterday Nicole painted the dining room wall brown (Benjamin Moore Stone Brown). I prepped the laundry room for painting with the hope that we would get some done before the new washer and dryer arrive today. Fortunately birthday stuff got in the way. While we were working the contractors got the tub […]

Wednesday the refrigerator box was built and that night we primered it. Then yesterday Nicole painted it purple. This morning it was put in place so when the people arrive to template the counter tops everything would be in place.

Well, according to the Weekly World News anyway. Here they are: I am the one God of all faiths. Thou shalt stop bickering about it. Thou shalt not make thee a graven image upon toast or other comestibles and declare it to be holy. Thou shalt not make war to obtain thy neighbor’s resources. Thou […]

You can see some results from my painting in the kitchen. That cleared the way for the contractor to install the cabinets. Unfortunately, two of the upper cabinets were damaged and they will build us new ones. Also the trash drawer was built wrong so they need to fix that too, but that doesn’t interfere […]