Kitchen floor

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Feb 152006
 

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 for a month to acclimate to the humidity level in the house and swell to what it needs to swell to before it is stained to match the surrounding floor.

Althought he hasn’t done the staining part yet, I wish we had known about him when we had the floors done last year. Mr. Crow actually likes stained floors and as a result knows a lot about staining. The guy we had didn’t really like staining so much. While we’re happy with how they came out I think John Crow would have done a better job.

 Posted by at 9:44 pm

Pauly Shore is Dead

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Feb 152006
 

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 the version of “It’s Been Awhile” in the extras.

 Posted by at 9:23 pm

Club Dread

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Feb 152006
 

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 bother doing something else.

Some worthwhile things in the movie:

  • Bill Paxton
  • Life-sized Pac-Man game where power pellets are gourds filled with alcohol and people dressed in large foam fruits run around the maze. Also the ghosts are women in bikinis.
  • Pretzel having sex with Watermelon
  • Disembodied legs from the unstoppable killer kicking after the boat in the water at the end.

 Posted by at 9:12 pm

New washer and dryer

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Feb 132006
 

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 with the wall for the valve lever to rotate through that space. I tried cutting a hole in the wall behind it but there was a beam there. So I carved all the wall up to the beam, but there still wasn’t enough clearance! Then I found the pipe was strapped to the wall with the strap under a load of plaster. Once I got that taken care of the rest of the gas hookup went very quickly.

Yesterday I ran a new dryer vent line so for the first time since I’ve lived here it doesn’t just vent under the house. The previous vent line was a flexible dryer hose plastered in to the wall and dangling under the house.

 Posted by at 7:44 am

Dining room paint

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Feb 072006
 

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 installed.

 Posted by at 2:10 pm

The refrigerator box

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Feb 032006
 

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.

 Posted by at 10:09 am

10 New Commandments Found!

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Feb 022006
 

Well, according to the Weekly World News anyway. Here they are:

  1. I am the one God of all faiths. Thou shalt stop bickering about it.
  2. Thou shalt not make thee a graven image upon toast or other comestibles and declare it to be holy.
  3. Thou shalt not make war to obtain thy neighbor’s resources.
  4. Thou shalt hold thy mother and father close to thy bosom, putting them no tin rest homes.
  5. Thou shalt not abondon thy children upon divorce.
  6. Thou shalt not allow thy God-given girth to exceed thy height.
  7. Thou shalt speak and frolic with thy offspring and not place them before colored boxes of gaming.
  8. Thou shalt not press makers of noise or gesture in anger whilst in transit.
  9. Thou shalt discard containers of plastic and metal appropriately.
  10. Thou shalt not worship the housewives who are desperate, nor their box, upon the Sabbath

Also…
A black hole from space has been found in Black Rock Desert, NV
The government is creating a Department of the Paranormal
and Haiti’s first president was a zombie

 Posted by at 1:36 pm

Finally some kitchen updates!

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Feb 012006
 

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 with the cabinet boxes. They made it so you have to open two doors to pull out the bins when the entire thing should be a pull-out or two side by side pull-outs.

Templating for the counter tops will happen on Friday.

Some tile work has happened in the bathroom too. You can see the different floor tiles in place and some of the wall tile. Also you can see a picture of the not yet installed tub. Hopefully the tub will get installed today which will allow the application of more tile.

 Posted by at 12:00 pm
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